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Pain Flashcards

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Pain

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An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage

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Different types of pain

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  • Acute v. chronic
  • Adaptive v. maladdaptive
  • Nociceptive v. neuropathic
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Acute pain

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  • Primarily symptom of pathological process or injury
  • Treating the illness or injury typically will reduce or eliminate acute pain symptoms
  • Duration usually less than 3 months
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Adaptive pain

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Contributes to survival because it protects from injury and promotes healing when the injury has occurred

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Biomedical model of pain

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  • Patient presents with pain
  • Formulate possible diagnoses
  • Pain management
  • Evaluation
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6
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Pain severity

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5th vital sign using the pain assessment tool (the visual analog scale)

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Chronic pain

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  • Pain which lasts beyond the ordinary duration of time that an injury to the body needs to heal
  • Typically lasts 3-6 months
  • Can be episodic or constant
  • Acute pain evolves into chronic pain in about 20% of patients
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Maladaptive pain

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  • A disease

- Represents pathological functioning of the nervous system

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Epidemiology of chronic pain

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  • Adults: about 50% self reported chronic pain

- Children/adolescent: about 15-30%

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Common causes of chronic pain:

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Back pain, headaches, arthritis, fibromyalgia, neuropathy

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Chronic pain is variable…

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Involves individual variables, prior experiences, and social context to better understand the pain/treatment

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Biopsychosocial model of pain…

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looks at how the pain effects the person; includes environmental/social contributions, beliefs/attitudes, affective vulnerability, comorbid symptoms, and the pain

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Consequences of chronic pain

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  • Quality of Life: physical & psychosocial
  • Economic
  • General Health: immune system suppression
  • Effect on family/friends/relationships
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Coping

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Pattern of behavioral or cognitive efforts to manage external or internal stress

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Coping strategies

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  • Active coping strategies: despite pain efforts to function or distract oneself
  • Passive coping strategies: depending on others for help in pain control, restriction of activities
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Behavioral aspects of chronic pain

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  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Anger
  • Feelings of helplessness
  • Pain catastrophizing
17
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PEG 3-scale

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To understand patients with chronic pain, a longitudinal perspective must be taken. This includes three questions that ask about the pain within the last week and how it has interfered with quality of life and daily activities

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Physician perscpective on pain

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  • Patient’s goals/expectations must be explicitly addressed
  • Chronic pain is poorly manages by medications alone
  • Multiple management modalities must be employed
19
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Opiods

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Class of synthetic or semi-synthetic prescription drugs derived from opium poppy

20
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Perscription opiods

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should have no role in chronic non-cancer pain management

21
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Therapeutic approaches to chronic pain

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  • Nonopiod medications
  • Exercise
  • Physical therapy, occupational therapy
  • Complementary and alternative therapies
  • Interventional pharmacotherapies
  • Behavioral medicine approaches (biofeedback, hypnosis)
22
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Older patients deny “pain”

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Instead, ask them about their ache, soreness, or discomfort

23
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Pain vocabulary: 6-18 months

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Use words like owie, ouchie, booboo to describe pain

24
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Pain vocabulary: 18-24 months

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Use the word hurt to describe pain

25
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Pain vocabulary: 2-3 years

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Can describe pain and explain what caused it

26
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Pain vocabulary: 3-5 years

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Can describe the level of pain

27
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Pain vocabulary: 5-7 years

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Can more clearly describe the pain

28
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Pain vocabulary: 7-10 years

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Can explain why something hurts

29
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Pain vocabulary: 11+ years

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Can explain that pain is the body’s way of telling them something is wrong

30
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Pain assessment in cognitively impaired adults

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  • Facial expressions
  • Verbalizations, vocalizations
  • Body movements
  • Changes in interpersonal interactions
  • Changes in activity patterns/routine
  • Mental status change
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Pain assessment in neurologically impaired children

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  • Vocalizations, crying, moaning
  • Facial expressions, grimacing
  • Inability to be consoled
  • Increased movement, tone, and posture (arching, stiffening), and physiological responses

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