Pain Management Flashcards
(38 cards)
Analgesia
Absence of normal sense of pain
Anesthesia
Partial or complete loss of sensation, with or without loss of consciousness as a result of disease, injury or anesthetic
Hyperalgesia
Excessive sensitivity to pain- painful stimuli perceived as more painful- chronic pain
Hyperesthesia
Increased sensitivity to sensory stimuli such as pain or touch- chronic pain
Allodynia
Non painful stimuli percieved as painful- chronic pain
Dysthesia
Unplesant sensation in the absence of sensation- pins & needles- chronic pain
Hyperpathia
All stimuli- noxious and innocuous- are more intense- chronic pain
Provacative/ pallative
What makes pain better or worse
Quality
Character of pain
Region & referral
where it hurts and radiates
severity
Pain scale- plus quantity, characteristics, frequency & variability
timing
duration, frequency & consistency
Neuropathic pain
chronic pain- aberrant somatosensory process in PNS.
Pain disproportionate to lesion-maladaptive- tingling, sharp, shooting, electric, burning.
Ex: herpes, DM
Complex regional pain syndromes
Chronic pain following injury- damage or malfunction of PNS
Neuralgias
pain occurring along the course of the nerve- pressure, nutritional deficiency, toxin or inflammation
Phantom pain
perception of pain from body part that is no longer there
Radicular neuropathy
problem with specific spinal nerve- damage to nerve root
Nocioceptive pain
Ongoing activation of neural pain systems due to tissue damage or inflammation
Somatic nocioceptive
localized pain- activation of nocioceptors with out injury to nerve or CNS
Visceral nocioceptive
Deep, aching, squeezing pain
psychogenic pain
pain that is truly experienced but best explained by a psychiatric disease
Idiopathic pain
pain with no clear cause
Physical dependence
Body adapts to drug requiring more to achieve same effect- withdrawal effects
Tolerance
Body adapts to drug and requires more to achieve desired effect
