Thanks
to those of you who joined us for our live Internet video program
on RSD / CRPS held on the campus of the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida
on August 6 at 12 noon (EDT), 2003.
This
international symposium was titled
“Use of Opioids (Narcotics) to Treat
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD / CRPS) in Adults and Children”
The event was free
and it was hosted by International Research Foundation
for RSD / CRPS with a web site located on campus.
Free Video
A downloadable video of this symposium is available for viewing.
Please click
here for either low bandwidth (for dial-up connections) or
for broadband (for high speed connections).
The University of
South Florida is working on the post-production version of the
symposium in five languages (English, Spanish, French, German,
Japanese).
The Foundation
also has a 2-hour VHS videotape available
of the live symposium for a donation of $100.
Reflex
Sympathetic Dystrophy, also known as RSD, is a chronic, painful,
debilitating neurological condition which affects millions of
people here in this country and around the world. In a first,
USF’s College of Medicine engaged pain experts in Japan,
Germany, Sweden as well as in the US in a live discussion over
the Internet on the treatment of this syndrome.
The symposium focused on the use of opioids (narcotics) to treat RSD in
both adults and children and was witnessed by a worldwide audience composed of physicians, researchers, and health
professionals through the use of a new Internet technology known as
Netcast.
The international
panel of pain experts represent the fields of neurology, anesthesiology
and psychiatry:
Dr. Ralph-Thomas
Kiefer. Anesthesiologist from Eberhard-Karls University Medical
School (Tuebingen, Germany)
Dr. Stephen M.
Butler, Anesthesiologist from Uppsala University (Uppsala,
Sweden)
Dr. Robert Schwartzman,
Neurologist from MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Dr. Maria Wilson
(USF Neurology)
Dr. Anthony Kirkpatrick
(USF, Dept. Internal Medicine)
Dr. Alyssa LeBel.
Anesthesiologist from Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts)
Dr. Sabine Kost-Byerly,
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
Dr. Seddon Savage.
Anesthesiologist from Dartmouth Medical School (Manchester,
New Hampshire)
