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Pain-test 2 Flashcards

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What is one of the most common reasons people go to the hospital?

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Pain

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What is one of the most frequent side effects of pain medicine

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Constipation

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True of False: pain can become the medical diagnosis

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True

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What are characteristics of physiological pain

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Protective-warns of potential damage
Transient
Localized
A defined stimulus response pattern

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Characteristics of Pathological pain

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Clinically significant
*means there is something wrong
Associated with inflammation and/or neuropathy
Pain outlasts the duration of the stimulus
Pain sensed in non-injured areas

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Can acute pain become chronic pain?

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Yes

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What time of pain is associated with anxiety

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Acute pain

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What kind of pain is associated with depression

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Chronic pain

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What type of pain occurs when normal nerves transmit information about tissue trauma from the periphery to the CNS

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Nociceptive pain

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What type of pain is initiated by structural or functional nervous system adaptions secondary to injury

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Neuropathic pain

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What type of pain is a abnormal processing

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Neuropathic pain

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What type of pain is a normal processing

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Nociceptive pain

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What are the 4 steps of the physiology of pain

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  1. Transduction
  2. Transmission
  3. Perception
  4. Modulation
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What is the step where where you become aware to the pain

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Perception

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What type of neurotransmitter have to transmit pain from peripheral to higher brain

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Substance P

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What type of neurotransmitter deals with vasodilation and edema

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Substance P

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What type of neurotransmitter deals with inhibiting pain transmission

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Serotonin

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How can you increase Serotonin

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Relaxation techniques

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What type of neurotransmitter increases sensitivity to pain

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Prostaglandins

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What type of neurotransmitter increases pain stimuli

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Bradykinin

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Where is Bradykinin released?

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At tissue injury

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What do neuromodulators do

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Prevent transmission of pain and produce analgesic effect

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The idea that physical pain is not a direct result of activation of pain receptor neurons, but rather its perception is modulated by interaction between different neurons.

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Gate-control theory of pain

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What is a way of interpreting pain to CNS

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Gate-control theory of pain

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What will body do with prolonged pain

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Try to adjust

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Behavioral responses to pain

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Irritability, anger, tired, depressed

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How do older people tend to report pain

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Under report pain

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Physiological factors influencing pain

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Age, fatigue, genes, neurological function

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What can family and social support do to pain

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Decrease pain

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What does anxiety do to pain

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Increases pain

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What does a PCA pump do for somebody with pain

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Gives them some control

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What is a good question to ask somebody about their pain

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What would you call your pain?

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Gall bladder can refer pain where?

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Right shoulder

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Pain free isn’t realistic at times so what you defined about from somebody with pain

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What pain level is acceptable to them

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What is the routine and clinical approach to pain assessment/management

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ABCDE
*Ask about pain regularly/assess pain systemically
*Believe the client and family in their report of pain and what relieves it
*choose pain control option appropriate for the client! family, and setting
*deliver interventions in a timely, logical, and coordinated fashion
*empower clients and their families.
Enable them to control their course to the greatest extent possible

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What causes a nurse to consistently overestimate or underestimate the pain that clients experience

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Bias

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What do you have to do when a cognition impaired person is not able to use your pain scale

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Figure out other ways to assess the persons pain

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What are examples of collaborative care

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PT,OT, family, clergy

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Why is it important to know is if somebody is taking herbals

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They can interfere and have side effects

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