Exam 2 Pain Physio

Question 1

What type of pain is well localized?

Answer 1

Somatic pain

Question 2

What type of pain is poorly localized?

Answer 2

Visceral pain

Question 3

Pain pathway

Answer 3

Transduction

Transmission

Modulation

Perception

Question 4

Excitatory NTs -> ?

Inhibitory NTs -> ?

Answer 4

Excitatory NTs -> Substance P, Glutamate

Inhibitory NTs -> GABA, endogenous opioids

Question 5

____ -> Transmits easily localized, superficial pain

____ -> Transmits deep and visceral pain

Answer 5

Spinothalamic tract -> Transmits easily localized, superficial pain

Spinoreticular tract -> Transmits deep and visceral pain

Question 6

Head pain is mediated by which nerve?

Answer 6

trigeminal nerve (CN V)

Question 7

Term used for pain evoked by a stimulus that doesnot normally cause pain

Answer 7

Allodynia

Question 8

Term used for an increased or exaggerated response to a stimulus that is normally painful

Answer 8

Hyperalgesia

Question 9

What is used to prevent windup?

Answer 9

Preemptive analgesia

Question 10

Anaglesia for Transduction

Answer 10

Systemic NSAIDs

Question 11

Anaglesia for Transmission

Answer 11

LA nerve block, Epidural

Question 12

Anaglesia for Modulation

Answer 12

Opioids
α-2 agonists
NSAIDS
NMDA antagonists

Question 13

Anaglesia for Perception

Answer 13

Opioids
α-2 agonists
General anesthetics

Question 14

What is the advantage of physiologic pain?

Answer 14

Prevents injury

Question 15

Which pain fiberwould be most likely involved in transmitting sharp, fast pain?

Answer 15

a-delta