Polytrauma Flashcards
Polytrauma
Minor falls most common cause
Leads to polypharmacy-CNS acting medication leading to OD, suicidality, chronic symptomalogy
Polytrauma dx
Brain Injury
SCI
Orthopedic injury
Organ damage
Surgical procedures
Polytrauma Assessment
COPM to establish client-centered goals, challenging with polytrauma, COPM for measurement of goals
Occupational profile
Polytrauma intervention
Telehealth for older adults
Medication management (polypharmacy)
Coping strategies
Mindfulness: tai chi techniques to increase sleep when addressing sleep dysfunction
Pain managemebt
Pain
An unpleasant sensory, emotional experience associated with or resembling that associated with actual or potential tissue damage
Nocioceptive pain
Actual/threatened damage to non-neural tissue, caused by activation of nocioceptor
Neuropathic pain
Lesions or diseases occurring in central/peripheral nervous system
Nociplastic pain
Altered nocioception without evidence of threatened or actual tissue damage
High impact pain
Pain that interferes with daily life or work activities
Long term consequences of PAIn
Physical dysfunction
Psychological disorder (depression, impaired memory, impaired attention)
Impaired sleep
Impaired sexual function
Interference with work performance
Impaired QOL
Increased economic burden
Intervention framework/theory for pain
In ease pain with biomedical approach, now biopsychologicql used
-emphasis on reduction, symptom mgmt, abd impact on health/wellbess
Self management
Activities person carries out to increase skills and confidence in managing their health problem
Health management
activities related to developing, managing, maintaining health and wellness routines including self management with goal of improving or maintaining health to support participation in other occupation
Assessing Pain
Assess pain presence, intensity, location, type and frequency, pain coping skills, perceptions, cognitive/emotional response, and self efficaxy
General pain Assessments
Brief Pain Inventory
FLACC Behavioral Pain scale
Mcgill Pain Questionnaire
Numeric rating scale
PEG scale
Visual Analog Dcale
Wong-Baker Faces Pain Scale