Assessing Pain Flashcards
It is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage
Pain
Its the 5th Vital Sign
Pain
What are the natures of pain?
- subjective and highly individualized
- stimulus is only physical and/ or mental
- can only be located by person affected by it
- directly not proportional to amount of tissue damage
Classifications of pain
- duration
- location
- intensity
- etiology
Types of pain based on duration
Acute and chronic
Identify type of pain based on duration:
- lasts for seconds to 6 months
- usually resolved without treatment
- could become worse if unrelieved
Acute Pain
Identify type of pain based on duration:
- lasts more than 6 months
- can be chronic non cancer pain, chronic cancer pain, and chronic episodic pain (pain episode lasts for hours, days, weeks.)
Chronic Pain
Types of Painn based on intensity
- Mild ( Pain scale: 1-3)
- Moderate (Pain Scale: 4 -6)
- Severe (Pain Scale: 7- 10)
Types of pain based on etiology
- Nociceptive
- Neuropathic
Identify type of pain based on etiology:
- associated with damaged or malfunctioning nerves due to illness, injury, or undetermined reasons
- examples: Peripheral neuropathic pain and Central Neuropathic pain
Neuropathic pain
Identify type of pain based on etiology:
- experienced when an intact, properly functioning nervous system sends signals that tissues are damaged
- examples: somatic and visceral pain
Nociceptive Pain
An example of Neuropathic pain
- caused by damage to the peripheral nervous system
Peripheral neuropathic pain
An example of Neuropathic pain
- Results from malfunctioning nerves in the central nervous systems
Central neuropathic pain
An example of Nociceptive pain:
- originates from skin, muscles, bone, or connective tissue
Somatic Pain
An example of Nociceptive pain:
- results from activation of nociceptors of thoracic, pelvic or abdominal viscera
Visceral pain
