Chapter 36- Pain Management Flashcards
What are the 4 different ways that pain should be assessed and documented?
- Monitor pain management
- Evaluate the level of pain relief
- Advocate for the patient
- Educate patient on possible treatment options for pain
Out of the blue pain that lasts less than 3-6 months.
Acute pain
Post op pain that persists more than 3 months. And non post op that persists longer than 6 months.
Chronic pain
The most common type of pain that originates from visceral and somatic locations in the body.
Nociceptive pain
Results from nerve injury and the pain continues even after the painful stimuli is gone.
Neuropathic pain
Neuropathic pain that is unpleasant and has an abnormal sensation.
Dysesthesia
Neuropathic pain that comes from noninjury stimuli
Allodynia
Neuropathic pain that causes excessive sensitivity.
Hyperalgesia
A greatly exaggerated pain reaction to stimuli
Hyperpathia
Pain that occurs when the brain continues to receive messages from an area of amputation
Phantom pain
When the brain adapts to the loss of a limb and pain stops
Plasticity
Pain that is perceived by an individual but has no physical cause.
Psychogenic pain
Any damage or hypersensitivity to which 3 areas can alter a person’s perception of pain.
- Pain receptors
- Spinal cord
- Cerebral cortex
What are 7 factors that influence pain? AGMDCER
- Age
- Gender
- Morphology
- Disabilities
- Culture
- Ethnicity
- Religion
The use of more than one mean for controlling pain. More effective and requires lower doses of each agent and produces fewer side effects.
Multimodal analgesia
