 Recently, the uses of peripheral axial blocks that deliver local anesthetic into the transversus abdominis fascial plane have become popular for operations that involve incisions of the abdominal wall. Thus, the Transversus Abdominis plane TAP block has been shown to reduce perioperative opioid use in elective abdominal surgery, including open appendicectomy, laparotomy, and laparoscopic cholecystectomy. However, the efficacy of the TAP block is reportedly only reliable in providing analgesia below the umbilicus. The ultrasound-guided subcostal transversus abdominis STA block is a recently described variation on the TAP block which produces reliable supraumbilical analgesia. Deposition of local anesthetic in this plane has shown to block dermatomes T6 to T10 with an occasional spread to T12. This variant will be discussed in our study. 