Bleeding and inflammation stages Flashcards
is the process different for different tissues?
no, process is the same for all types of tissues
what are the three ways tissues are usually damaged due to?
excessive ;
- compressive forces
- tensile forces
- shearing/ lacerating forces
what are the four phases of tissue repair?
- bleeding
- inflammation
- proliferation
- remodelling
how long roughly is the bleeding phase?
- short phase
- 0 to 10 hours
what does the bleeding phase depend on ? (4)
- initial injury type
- tissues damaged
- severity of the injury
- person specific factors e.g., smokers, diabetes, haemophilia
what does bleeding activate and what does this secrete ?
- bleeding activates platelets
- secretes prothrombin
what does prothrombin convert to? what is this used for?
- prothrombin converted to thrombin
- thrombin binds to fibrinogen to form fibrin cross- linking that aggregates over the wound
how long is the inflammation stage? how is it described?
- 0-4 days
- described as an essential component of tissue repair process
what happens at approximately day 1-3?
- rapid onset
- increases in magnitude
what are inflamed tissues called?
- referred to as ‘itis’
- no inflammatory markers in tendons
what are the 5 triggers of inflammation?
- bleeding
- trauma
- chemical
- infective
- immunological
describe a chemical trigger for inflammation
- changes in acid balance
- changes transfer of liquids
describe a immunological trigger for inflammation
- rheumatoid arthritis ^ inflammation
what are the five cardinal signs?
- pain
- swelling
- loss of function
- heat
- redness
what is pain?
- unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with actual or potential tissue damage
what are the specialised receptors and what do they do?
- nociceptors are activated and send an action potential to the spinal cord, transmitted through fibres which depending on their thickness will transduce information fast or slow
where is the information sent after the spinal cord?
- sent to higher centres
- spinothalamic or spinoreticular tracts in which the brain recognises if the stimuli is damaging or not
what are the two main fibres? which one is faster?
- A - fibres and C fibres
- A- fibres conducts the action potential fast (large diameter) whereas C fibres conduct the action potential slower (small diameter)
is there any conscious involvement?
- yes
- perception and cognition
- association areas
can you modulate pain?
- modulation via pain gate theory involving a - beta fibres and opioids
what is the primary mechanism?
- markers including macrophage, mast cell, neutrophil accompany the inflammation and cover the damage to activate tissue repair
what are produced as a result of inflammatory pain? where from?
- chemical mediators
- from the injury itself
what are the chemical mediators?
- serotonin
- bradykinin
- histamine
- nerve growth factors
where are the chemical mediators sent?
- sent to the bloodstream
what is nociception?
- neural process of encoding, transmitting and processing noxious stimuli
is nociception always linked to pain?
- no, nociception doesn’t always result in pain; tissue damage not necessary for pain as peripheral factors also influence pain
what is a noxious stimulus?
- an actually or potentially tissue damaging event transduced and encoded by nociceptors
what are nociceptors?
- sensory receptor that is capable of transducing, encoding and transmitting noxious stimuli
what can stimulation of nociceptors result in?
- nociceptive pain