TA Review Flashcards
low back pain difficulty with:
- basic actions: 51.6%
- complex activities: 55%
Most # years lived with burden
- migraine
- Oth MSK
- neck pain
- headache
most significant comorbid symptoms with neuropathic pain
- difficulty sleeping
- depression
- anxiety
total cost of back pain
12300
utalitarianism
minimizing pain, maximizing pleasure
who is peter singer
animal rights
- If you can experience suffering and/or happiness, you should be entitled to
rights
explain the change in pain definition
- 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
______ reduces effects of social pain
Acetaminophen
Congential insensitivity lifespan
40
acute pain example
headache, trauma
nociceptive pain example
rheumatoid arthritis
central neuropathic pain example
phantom pain
peripheral neuropathic pain example
diabetic neuropathy
mixed chronic pain example
cancer/lower back
chronic visceral pain example
IBS
symptoms of chronic pain
- Spontaneous, evoked,
paresthesia/dysesthesia, numbness,
paradoxical thermal sensations,
aftersensations
merck was founded in
1668
ether dome was in
1846
fastest route of drug administration
intravenous (IV)
most common drug administration
oral
methadone half-life
4-8 hours (why it’s used for addiction treatment)
respiratory depression leads to:
death
who is john bonica
- created The Management of Pain (textbook)
- Created first multidisciplinary pain center
NNT of peptic ulcer
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