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Pain Management Flashcards

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What is pain?

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  • Sensory experience associated with tissue damage

- Emotional component in humans and animals

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Forms of pain management? (3)

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  • Analgesia
  • Multi-modal analgesia
  • Pain scoring methods (pain behaviour)
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Why should pain be avoided? (Mention 4 things)

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  • Stress to patient
  • Prolonged recovery
  • Poor or delayed wound healing
  • Self-trauma
  • Impairs respiratory and cardiovascular function
  • Reduced food intake
  • Reduced mobility
  • Our ethical responsibility!
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4
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Name 3 responses to pain

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  • Intra-operative pain
  • Increased HR
  • Increased RR
  • Dilation of bronchi
  • Adrenaline release
  • Cardiac arrhythmias due to adrenaline release
  • Dilation of blood vessels in skeletal muscle
  • Constriction of blood vessels in gastrointestinal tract
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5
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What is acute pain associated with?

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Injury / trauma

- may be post surgical

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6
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When does acute pain usually abate

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  • as healing occurs
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What is acute pain?

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Pain that does not usually outlast the initial painful stimulus

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What is chronic pain?

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Pain that does outlast the initial painful stimulus
OR
British pain society: ‘pain lasting longer than 12 weeks’
OR
pain lasting longer than anticipated

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9
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What can chronic pain cause changes in

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  • Can cause changes in pain pathways of the central and peripheral nervous system
  • Continued pain can lead to changes in the way the animal responds to painful stimulus
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What is pre-emptive analgesia

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Administration of analgesics prior to pain stimulation preventing neuron sensitisation

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11
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What are the three kinds of pain?

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  • Physiological
  • Inflammatory
  • Neuropathic
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What is physiological pain?

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Response that is proportionate to stimulus and pain goes when stimulus is removed
- ‘Protective pain’

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13
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What is inflammatory pain?

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Clinical pain
- caused by surgery?
inflammation

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14
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What is neuropathic pain?

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Caused by direct damage to the nervous system

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What is the physiology of pain

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  • Noxious (painful) stimulus associated with tissue damage and release of inflammatory mediators leading to the activation of pain receptors in nociceptors
  • Nociceptors transmit pain signals to CNS
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16
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What can repeated stimulus of pain pathways cause?

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Heightened sensitivity

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17
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What are nerve endings that detect painful stimuli called?

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Nociceptors

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18
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What are the main inflammatory mediators?

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Prostaglandins

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19
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What is transduction

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Pain being detected by nociceptors that then convert the painful stimulus into a nervous signal

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20
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What are the pain fibres?

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Að and C

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21
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What is the aim of analgesia?

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To interrupt or modify some or all parts of the CNS pathway

22
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What can ongoing pain cause?

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Chronic hypersensitivity to pain that can outlast the actual pain event

23
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What is Allodynia?

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Sensitivity to stimuli that would not normally cause pain e.g. touch

24
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What is hyperalgesia

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Greater intensity and duration of pain that would be expected

25
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What 5 kinds of drugs are most commonly used

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Opioids 
NSAIDs
Alpha-2-adrenoreceptor agonists 
Local anaesthetics 
Ketamine 
Gabapentin
26
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Name 2 opioids used for analgesia and pain management

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Methadone
Buprenorphine
Fentanyl

27
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Where do opioids act?

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Centrally and peripherally

28
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How do NSAIDs work?

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Inhibit the production of inflammatory mediators via the inhibition of COX enzymes

29
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What kind of NSAIDS are safer for the gut?

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Cox-2 selective

30
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Name 3 NSAIDs commonly used

A 
meloxicam 
Carprofen 
Robencoxib 
Asprin 
Phenybutazone 
Ketoprofen 
Paracetamol
31
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What are NSAIDs used for

A

Management of chronic pain

Peri-operative pain relief

32
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When should you avoid NSAID usage? (name 2)

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In patients that are:

  • Dehydrated
  • Hypotension (Shocked)
  • Have pre-existing renal disease
  • Liver disease
  • Animals already on corticosteroids or other NSAIDs
33
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Name 2 Alpha-2-adrenoreceptor agonists

A

medetomidine
dexmedetomidine
Xylazine

34
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What is used to reverse Alpha 2’s

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Atipamezole

35
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Name a local anaesthetic used for pain management

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Lignocaine
Bupivicaine
Mepivicaine

36
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What kind of analgesia do local anaesthetics provide?

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Total analgesia

37
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What type of analgesia does ketamine provide

A

somatic analgesia

38
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Why is ketamine used for pain management

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  • thought to prevent ‘wind up’

- acts centrally and can block central sensitisation

39
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When is Gabapentin used for pain management?

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To block neuropathic pain in adult animals

40
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What is neuropathic pain

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Pain caused by disease of sensory nerves

41
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What is a disadvantage of gabapentin

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Cost

Exact mechanism of action is unknown

42
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Why is acupuncture used?

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  • For chronic pain

- To compliment pharmaceutical measures in pain patients

43
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What are NSAID’s often combined with to create multi-modal analgesia? (name 1)

A
  • Opioids
  • Alpha-2-agonists
  • Local anaesthetics
44
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What kind of ‘infusion’ is often avoided in cats and why

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‘Milk’ infusions due to sensitivity to lidocaine

45
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What is a ‘milk’ infusion’

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combo of:

  • NaCl 0.9 or Hartmanns
  • Morphine
  • Lidocaine
  • Ketamine
46
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What variables can cause a variation in pain behaviour?

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Species 
Breed 
Age
Sex
Temperament
47
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Name 2 scales used to determine pain?

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  • Simple descriptive scale
  • Numerical rating scale
  • Visual analogue scale
  • Glasgow composite pain scale
  • Colorado pain scale for cats
48
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Why are pain scales made?

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To standardise and improve pain management

49
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How do you determine if it pain or a stormy recovery?

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Palpation of would: Should elicit painful or heightened response
- Painful animals may be temporarily distracted unlike those who are dysphoric

50
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Name 4 additional roles of the VN to enhance a smooth recovery, and pain management

A
  • Monitor
  • Record and report signs of pain
  • Give good nursing care
  • Give clean warm bedding
  • Tend to wounds e.g. bandaging
  • Comfortable environment
  • Allow toileting and eating as close to normal
  • Provide psychological support

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