Comfort

Question 0

Pain that originates in tendons, ligaments, bones, blood vessels, and nerves

Answer 0

Somatic pain

Question 1

Superficial pain usually involves the skin or subcutaneous tissue

Answer 1

Cutaneous pain

Question 2

Pain that originates in the body organs in the thorax, cranium, and abdomen

Answer 2

Visceral pain

Question 3

Pain that originates in one part of the body but is perceived in an area distant from its point of origins

Answer 3

Referred pain

Question 4

Pain that results from an injury to or abnormal functioning of peripheral nerves or the CNS

Answer 4

Neuropathic pain

Question 5

Pain that occurs after a normally weak or non-painful stimuli such as the light touch or cold drink

Answer 5

Allodynia

Question 6

When pain is resistant to therapy and persists despite a variety of interventions

Answer 6

Intractable

Question 7

A physical cause for the pain cannot be identified

Answer 7

Psychogenic pain

Question 8

The process of pain involves what four stages?

Answer 8

Transduction, transmission, perception, and modulation

Question 9

The activation of pain receptors is referred to as?

Answer 9

Transduction

Question 10

Interlacing network or undifferentiated free nerve endings receive painful stimuli

Answer 10

Transmission

Question 11

The sensory process that occurs when a stimulus for pain is present it includes the person’s interpretation of the pain

Answer 11

Perception

Question 12

The process by which the sensation of pain is inhibited or modified

Answer 12

Modulation

Question 13

The theory that explains that excitatory pain stimuli carried by small diameter nerve fibers can be blocked by inhibiting signals carried by large diameter nerve fibers

Answer 13

Gate control theory

Question 14

Pain described as sharp, dull, diffuse, shifting, sore, stinging, cramping, etc.

Answer 14

Quality

Question 15

The point beyond which a person is no longer willing to endure pain

Answer 15

Pain tolerance

Question 16

A technique that uses a machine to monitor physiologic responses through Electro-Sensors on the patient’s skin

Answer 16

Biofeedback

Question 17

Numeric sedation scale 1

Answer 17

Awake and alert no action necessary

Question 18

Numeric sedation scale 2

Answer 18

Occasional drowsy but easy to arouse requires no action

Question 19

Numeric sedation scale 3

Answer 19

Frequently drowsy and drifts off to sleep during conversation decrease the opioid dose

Question 20

Numeric sedation scale 4

Answer 20

Somnolent with minimal or no response to stimuli, discontinue opioid and consider the use of narcan

Question 21

Response to behavioral pain

Answer 21

Voluntary

Question 22

Physiologic response to pain

Answer 22

Involuntary

Question 23

Affective response to pain

Answer 23

Psychological

Question 24

Wilda scale

Answer 24

Words that describe pain
Intensity of pain
Location of pain
Duration of pain
Aggravating or alleviating factors