AP Flashcards
Strong psychological component of pain. Treamtent:
Pain medicine with anti anxiety
Why is Pain Management Important?
Common complaint - leads to frequent access to US healthcare system
Chronic pain affects more Americans than diabetes,cancer, heart disease, combined
Inadequate Management an numerous patient safety concerns - esp special populations
Untreated pain –> adverse sequelae
Groups with undertreated pain
Femail and minorities
Prevelant with African Americans and sickle cells
Pain Management Challenges
Failure to distinguish pain from anxiety
Lack of education with providers - nonpharmacologic
*inadequate discharge pain plans - return of admission
Physiologically unstable patient - least likely to receive standardized pain assessment
Stereotypes
Analgesia Shortage
Ketamine Subdissociate dose for pain
0.2-0.3 mg/kg
Pain is multidimensional T/F?
True - can be related to genetics, age gender socioeconomic culture, religion, etc
A patient’s response to prescribed pain treatment can be influenced by factors unrelated to actual pharmacological treatments.
Factors that affect patient perceptions
Perceived…
Effective communication
Responsiveness of team
Perceived empathy by treatment team
Females also are believed to ____ their pain more frequently and effectively than males.
express
Per Dr.C - men are more insensitive about their pain
Those with strong cultural and religious ties tend to have stronger support mechanisms for dealing with their pain.
T or F
T
Consider the impact of age, gender and ethnicity on pain assessment and management but beware of labeling or stereotyping - treat the individual patient!
Depression and pain often co-exist (____% of pain patients also report depression).
30 to 60 percent
Previous pain experiences can alter activity within certain brain regions responsible for pain processing resulting in persistent pain.
Additionally, mood disorders and other psychiatric disorders have been linked to the development of chronic pain
living in rural areas and who are of lower socioeconomic status tend to report higher levels of chronic pain, pain related disability, and depression.
T or F
T
What is pain catastrophizing?
an exaggerated cognitive response to an anticipated or actual pain stimulus and affects how individuals experience or express pain
Pain catastrophizing share similarities with what?
depression and anxiety
Different Types of Catastrophizing
Magnification: response that symptoms that can be or are greater than expected
Rumination: when an individual focuses repeatedly on attributes of an event that evoke a negative emotional response.Helplessness: the belief that there is nothing that anyone can do to improve a bad situation.
Intervention for Magnification
Ex: “I’m afraid that something serious might happen”
Intervention: Versed and Precedex
Intervention for Rumination
Ex: “I can’t stop thinking about how much it hurts“
Distraction
Intervention for Helplessness Ex: “There is nothing I can do to reduce the intensity of my pain”.
Gentle Truth
ultra-rapid metabolizers
of certain drugs such as codeine. This means they convert codeine to morphine more rapidly than other patients, resulting in potential supra-therapeutic dosing.
Hints: Review Home Meds: Long med list, previous anesthetics record
Increased analgesic requirements
“slow metabolizers” and do not efficiently metabolize codeine, and thus never achieve therapeutic levels.
Hints: Long PACU stay, sleepy for a couple days after anesthesia, previous anesthetics record
Decreased analgesic requirements
nearly 90% of certain ____(and_____) groups are fast acetylators.
Asians
Native Americans
Temporal nature refers to _____.
duration of pain
Nociceptive Pain is
result of direct tissue injury from a noxious stimulus.
can be somatic or visceral
ei bone fractures new surgical incision, acute burn injury
Inflammatory pain
result of release of inflammatory mediators that control nociceptive input and are released at sites of tissue inflammation.
appendicitis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and late stage burn healing.
Neuropathic Pain
leading to an alteration in sensory transmission.
can be central or peripheral in nature.
*Chronic
Examples include diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, postherpetic neuralgia, chemotherapy induced pain, and radiculopathy.
Somatic Pain
known as musculoskeletal pain, is pain that occurs from injury to skin, muscle, bone, joint, connective tissue and deep tissues. Typically pain is well-localized, sharp and worse with movement.
Skin superficial
Laceration, fractures, pelvic pain
Rx: LOCAL anesthetic