Comfort And Pain

Question 0

Ability to endure the discomfort from pain

Answer 0

Pain tolerance

Varies from low to high

Question 1

Point at which pain sensation becomes noticeable

Answer 1

Pain threshold

Thought to be the same among healthy persons

Question 2

Pain is what kind of sensation

Answer 2

Demanding

Question 3

What kind of emotions are accompanying with pain

Answer 3

Anxiety and fear

Question 4

The body does not do what to pain as it does to heat or odors

Answer 4

Adapt

Question 5

Responses to pain may be

Answer 5

Physical or emotional

Question 6

Type of pain that is less than 6 months with anticipated and predictable ending
Pain meds Vicodin morphin Demerol

Answer 6

Acute pain

Question 7

More than 6 month without anti payed or predictable ending. Does not respond to pain meds

Answer 7

Chronic pain

Question 8

Remember you need to treat pain right away! Why?

Answer 8

Because, it takes more medication to treat pain that is out of control then it is less severe

Question 9

Intermittent pain

Answer 9

Pain comes and goes

Can be acute or chronic

Question 10

Pain felt In a location and it radiates out or down an extremity some distance from the source

Answer 10

Radiating

Question 11

Intractable

Answer 11

Constant pain that cannot be easily relived
Associated with no cure
( patients with cancer )

Question 12

Psychogenic

Answer 12

Pain having mental as opposed to organic origin

Question 13

Phantom pain

Answer 13

Pain felt in a body part that is no longer present

Question 14

What is the gate control theory

Answer 14

Synapses in the dorsal horns act as gates that close to keep impulses fro reaching the brain or open to permit impulses to ascend to the brain

Question 15

Noci

Answer 15

A combining form indicated pain or injury

Question 16

Nocirepters

Answer 16

Are free nerve endings that sense and respond to potentially noxious thermal electoral mechanical or chemical stimuli

Question 17

Type a fibers

Answer 17

Bright and intense 
Large mylinated (fast transmitting)
First pain sensation

Question 18

Type c

Answer 18

Dull
Small unmyelinated ( slow transmitting)
Carry potentially painful impulses

Question 19

Type b

Answer 19

Stimulated by heat cold and touch
Travels through the same dorsal horn gate as C fiber
Increased activity stimulates the closing of the gate in the dorsal horn which will also block the pain impulses on c- fibers