As just mentioned in another thread, click on the RSDSA Medical Articles Archieve webpage at http://www.rsds.org/2/library/articl...ive/index.html then scroll down to open any of the 4 articles under the heading "CRPS and Surgery." It's as good a place to start as any.

Mike

ps And be careful not to cite any articles co-authored by one Scott S. Reuben, M.D.:

March 11, 2009

Doctor’s Pain Studies Were Fabricated, Hospital Says

By GARDINER HARRIS

In what may be among the longest-running and widest-ranging cases of academic fraud, one of the most prolific researchers in anesthesiology fabricated much of the data underlying his research, said a spokeswoman for the hospital where he works.

The researcher, Dr. Scott S. Reuben, an anesthesiologist in Springfield, Mass., who practiced at Baystate Medical Center, fabricated data in some or all of the 21 journal articles dating from at least 1996, said Jane Albert, a spokeswoman for Baystate Health.

The reliability of dozens more articles he wrote is uncertain, and the common practice — supported by his studies — of giving patients aspirinlike drugs and neuropathic pain medicines after surgery instead of narcotics is now being questioned.

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Baystate investigators determined that Dr. Reuben had concocted data for 21 studies, and the health system asked the journals in which those studies were published to withdraw them.

Dr. Steve Shafer, the editor in chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia, which published many of the papers, said he was considering withdrawing any study in which Dr. Reuben served a pivotal role.

“He was one of the most prolific investigators in the area of postoperative pain management,” Dr. Shafer said. His fraud “sets back our knowledge in the field tremendously.” . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/he...0Reubin&st=cse

I have one that deals with this but do not know how to up-load if some one emails I can send it to them I had 2 surgery's on each shoulder TOS surgerys that should of not been done and looking at getting 2 total replacements darvell@sympatioc.ca

With all my surgeries the Anesteologist is the one that deals with blocks and trying to stop the RSD from spreading. When he talks to the Anesteologist before the surgery, ask him about a block or something else for the RSD.

I have had so many different kinds with my surgeries and the Anesteologist is the one that administered all of them. Bier block, SGB's, and lidocaine. The last surgery he filled the places with Lidocane to keep it from coming out. It worked. I had no pain from the first day of surgery on. He couldn't do blocks due to one cut being on my neck so he did this instead.

Usually the Drs. don't make that decision about the blocks.

Even if you Dad has a PM Dr. you might want to find an Anesteologist to do blocks. A lot of them have their own offices and rooms to do the blocks.

Ada