TA Review

Question 1

low back pain difficulty with:

Answer 1

• basic actions: 51.6%
• complex activities: 55%

Question 2

Most # years lived with burden

Answer 2

• migraine
• Oth MSK
• neck pain
• headache

Question 3

most significant comorbid symptoms with neuropathic pain

Answer 3

• difficulty sleeping
• depression
• anxiety

Question 4

total cost of back pain

Answer 4

12300

Question 5

utalitarianism

Answer 5

minimizing pain, maximizing pleasure

Question 6

who is peter singer

Answer 6

animal rights
- If you can experience suffering and/or happiness, you should be entitled to
rights

Question 7

explain the change in pain definition

Answer 7

• changed “describe” as the verb “describe” very strongly implies verbal communication
• Pressing a knife to your forearm hurts before actual skin damage, which is a better system than feeling pain after the actual damage

Question 8

______ reduces effects of social pain

Answer 8

Acetaminophen

Question 9

Congential insensitivity lifespan

Answer 9

40

Question 10

acute pain example

Answer 10

headache, trauma

Question 11

nociceptive pain example

Answer 11

rheumatoid arthritis

Question 12

central neuropathic pain example

Answer 12

phantom pain

Question 13

peripheral neuropathic pain example

Answer 13

diabetic neuropathy

Question 14

mixed chronic pain example

Answer 14

cancer/lower back

Question 15

chronic visceral pain example

Answer 15

IBS

Question 16

symptoms of chronic pain

Answer 16

• Spontaneous, evoked,
  paresthesia/dysesthesia, numbness,
  paradoxical thermal sensations,
  aftersensations

Question 17

merck was founded in

Answer 17

1668

Question 18

ether dome was in

Answer 18

1846

Question 19

fastest route of drug administration

Answer 19

intravenous (IV)

Question 20

most common drug administration

Answer 20

oral

Question 21

methadone half-life

Answer 21

4-8 hours (why it’s used for addiction treatment)

Question 22

respiratory depression leads to:

Answer 22

death

Question 23

who is john bonica

Answer 23

• created The Management of Pain (textbook)
• Created first multidisciplinary pain center

Question 24

NNT of peptic ulcer

Answer 24

1.1

Question 25

NNT of peptic ulcer - remaining after 1 year

Answer 25

1.8

Question 26

NNT of aspirin

Answer 26

40

Question 27

NNT of aspirin with thrombolytic therapy

Answer 27

100

Question 28

what are the Mogil study pain research trends?

Answer 28

• There has been linear growth in the size of the journal, the number of paper authors, and the size of the reference lists
• Most-cited papers published in Pain are papers describing new animal models and scales/questionnaires
• The most common compound study types are “human psychophysics”, “human intervention”, “animal behavioral pharmacology”, “human model development”, “human epidemiology”, “animal electrophysiology”, and “animal model development”

Question 29

why do some pain syndromes show a glove and stocking distribution?

Answer 29

neuropathic pain symptomatology tends to show up first in the hands and the feet, or in the extremities