Liver donors have a significant risk to develop persistent and chronic pain around 20 to 30% affecting social and professional life (17%) up to 1 year after the surgery. To donate a part of liver is a beautiful gift reason why the pain relief must be improved. Meta-analysis showed that the best prevention against post operative chronic pain are the techniques blocking the pain signal (regional anaesthesia) Patients after liver donation are still in pain even in 2020 with the best multimodal analgesia medications. Erector sinae Plane Block (ESP) ESP will block the signal and improve the pain relief we hope to demonstrate that it will reduce the risk to develop post operative chronic pain and improve the quality of recovery and the quality of life after liver donation
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quality of pain relief at rest
Timeframe: from day 0 = day of surgery to day 180
quality of pain relief at mouvement
Timeframe: from day 0 = day of surgery to day 180