{"id":704,"date":"2014-11-10T09:07:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T09:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/?p=704"},"modified":"2014-11-17T15:17:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T15:17:38","slug":"ww1-surgeons-could-do-little-for-amputees-pain-and-treatment-remains-a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/2014\/11\/10\/ww1-surgeons-could-do-little-for-amputees-pain-and-treatment-remains-a-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"WW1 surgeons could do little for amputees\u2019 pain \u2013 and treatment remains a challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2014\/11\/WW1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-711\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2014\/11\/WW1-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"WW1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/a.rice\">Professor Andrew Rice<\/a>\u00a0from the section of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care has collaborated with historian Dr Emily Mayhew and army surgeon Major Dafydd Edwards\u00a0in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/landia\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(14)61643-3\/abstract\">paper<\/a> published in The Lancet on Friday, looking at how\u00a0WW1 surgeons could do little for amputees\u2019 pain and how treatment\u00a0still\u00a0remains a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Army doctors in the First World War were helpless to stop soldiers who lost limbs from suffering in pain, according to researchers.\u00a0A century on, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have made the loss of limbs common among military casualties once again, but while prosthetic technology has improved dramatically, there is still a shortage of effective treatments for pain caused by damaged nerves.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on this in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/newsandeventspggrp\/imperialcollege\/newssummary\/news_6-11-2014-14-8-7?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Imperial+News+7+Nov+2014&amp;utm_content=Imperial+News+7+Nov+2014+CID_8c437630828d7fa411bb09cbd4bfdc4a&amp;utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor%20Imperial%20News&amp;utm_term=Painful%20memories\">College article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Andrew Rice\u00a0from the section of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care has collaborated with historian Dr Emily Mayhew and army surgeon Major Dafydd Edwards\u00a0in a paper published in The Lancet on Friday, looking at how\u00a0WW1 surgeons could do little for amputees\u2019 pain and how treatment\u00a0still\u00a0remains a challenge. Army doctors in the First World War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}