Acute Pain Flashcards
Somatic pain types
Superficial; from skin, subs tissue, mucous membranes
Deep; Muscle, tendons, joints or bones
Visceral pain types
Parietal; localized to the area around the organ; sharp/ stabbing
Referred Pain; cutaneous pain resulting form patters of embryo logic developments and migration of tissues and the convergence of visceral and somatic afferent inputs into the cns
Red Flags of pain
Pain that wakes pts up
Immunosuppressive
Severe or progressive neurological deficit
Cold, pale mottled or cyanosis limb
New bowel/ bladder dysfunction
Severe and pain or signs of shock/ peritonitis
Who defined pain as an emotional experience rather than a sensory one
Plato
Who explained the degree of plain associated with the degree of tissue injury
Rene Descartes “specificity theory of pain”
Who came up with the gate control theory of pain
Ronald Melzack and Patric Wall
In the substantia gelatinousa
Inflammatory mediators that contribute to pain
Peptides = bradykinin
Lipids = prostaglandins
Neurotransmitters = serotonin
Four elements of pain processings
transduction = noxious stimuli concerted to A&P
Transmission= AP is conducted through the nervous system
Modulation = pain transmission alters afferent neural transmission (gate control)
Perception- integration of painful input into somatosensory and lambic contrices
Allodynia
Pain from a stimulus that doesn’t normally evoke pain (thermal or mechanical)
Hyperalgesia
An exaggerated response to a normal painful stimulus.
What medication can cause hyperalgesia
Remifentanil (use with ketamine because its primary treatment of hyperalgesia)
Neuropathic pain
Complete denervation of a body part does result in numbness, the hallmark ‘negative” symptom of neuropathy. Yes nerve trauma and disease are also frequently associated with ‘positive’ symomtoms and signs.
Pain coming from the nerve itself
My receptor responses
Analgesia, resp depression, euphoria, reduced GI motility
kappa receptors response
Analgesia, dysphasia, psychosis, delusion/ delirium, mitosis, resp depression
Delta Receptors Response
Analgesia
Codeine compared to morphine
More reliably absorbed orally than morphine
Codeine metabolism
Metabolized by P450 CYP 2d6 10% of admin dose is demethlated in liver to morphine
Remainder demethlyated to inactive norcodeine CYP3A4
Who do we avoid codeine in?
CHildren less than 12 lack maturity of the enzyme and can experience side effects w/out analgesia
COdeine adult dosing
15-60 mg q4 max 360/day
Tramadol
Synthetic opioid that is a combo of morphine and codeine
Use for long and short term pain when we are trying to avoid a true opioid
Receptors; mu kappa and delta
Tramadol metabolism
Cape 2d6 and 2A4 to active metabolite that is 2-4 x as potent as the OG
Tramadol potency and onset and T1/2
1/5-1/10 the potency of morphine
Onset 1-2 hrs
T1/2= 6.3 for Tramadol and 7.4 for metabolite
Tramadol contraindications
Sz pts
High incidence of n/v
Morphine receptors
Mu 1 and mu2
Morphine metabolism
Metabolism is conjugation with glucuronic acid
Lipid soluble/ highly protein bound
Active metabolite
Morphine onset and peak and women vs men
IM = 15-30 min and peak effect in 45 min
Greater analgesia and slower onset in women (give less)
Oxycodone
Synthetic derivative ‘replaced morphine’
Name for long acting oxycodone
OxyContin (controlled release)
Oxycodone metabolism
Active metabolites
Mu and Kappa receptors
Cyp 2D6; excessive first pass effect
Dosing and timing for oxycodone
10-15 mg = 10mg of morphine
1 hr onset
3 hr half life (4.5 for CR)
Cr can last 12 hrs