Pain-test 2 Flashcards

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What is one of the most common reasons people go to the hospital?

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Pain

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What is one of the most frequent side effects of pain medicine

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Constipation

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2
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True of False: pain can become the medical diagnosis

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True

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What are characteristics of physiological pain

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Protective-warns of potential damage
Transient
Localized
A defined stimulus response pattern

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Characteristics of Pathological pain

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Clinically significant
*means there is something wrong
Associated with inflammation and/or neuropathy
Pain outlasts the duration of the stimulus
Pain sensed in non-injured areas

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5
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Can acute pain become chronic pain?

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Yes

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6
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What time of pain is associated with anxiety

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Acute pain

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7
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What kind of pain is associated with depression

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Chronic pain

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8
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What type of pain occurs when normal nerves transmit information about tissue trauma from the periphery to the CNS

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Nociceptive pain

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What type of pain is initiated by structural or functional nervous system adaptions secondary to injury

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Neuropathic pain

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What type of pain is a abnormal processing

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Neuropathic pain

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What type of pain is a normal processing

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Nociceptive pain

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What are the 4 steps of the physiology of pain

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  1. Transduction
  2. Transmission
  3. Perception
  4. Modulation
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13
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What is the step where where you become aware to the pain

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Perception

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14
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What type of neurotransmitter have to transmit pain from peripheral to higher brain

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Substance P

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15
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What type of neurotransmitter deals with vasodilation and edema

16
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What type of neurotransmitter deals with inhibiting pain transmission

17
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How can you increase Serotonin

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Relaxation techniques

18
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What type of neurotransmitter increases sensitivity to pain

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Prostaglandins

19
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What type of neurotransmitter increases pain stimuli

20
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Where is Bradykinin released?

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At tissue injury

21
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What do neuromodulators do

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Prevent transmission of pain and produce analgesic effect

22
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The idea that physical pain is not a direct result of activation of pain receptor neurons, but rather its perception is modulated by interaction between different neurons.

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Gate-control theory of pain

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What is a way of interpreting pain to CNS

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Gate-control theory of pain

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What will body do with prolonged pain
Try to adjust
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Behavioral responses to pain
Irritability, anger, tired, depressed
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How do older people tend to report pain
Under report pain
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Physiological factors influencing pain
Age, fatigue, genes, neurological function
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What can family and social support do to pain
Decrease pain
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What does anxiety do to pain
Increases pain
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What does a PCA pump do for somebody with pain
Gives them some control
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What is a good question to ask somebody about their pain
What would you call your pain?
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Gall bladder can refer pain where?
Right shoulder
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Pain free isn't realistic at times so what you defined about from somebody with pain
What pain level is acceptable to them
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What is the routine and clinical approach to pain assessment/management
ABCDE *Ask about pain regularly/assess pain systemically *Believe the client and family in their report of pain and what relieves it *choose pain control option appropriate for the client! family, and setting *deliver interventions in a timely, logical, and coordinated fashion *empower clients and their families. Enable them to control their course to the greatest extent possible
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What causes a nurse to consistently overestimate or underestimate the pain that clients experience
Bias
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What do you have to do when a cognition impaired person is not able to use your pain scale
Figure out other ways to assess the persons pain
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What are examples of collaborative care
PT,OT, family, clergy
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Why is it important to know is if somebody is taking herbals
They can interfere and have side effects