UNIT 2 PAIN INTERVENTIONS Flashcards
Effective treatment of pain includes?
- Pharmacological therapies
- Adress the actual tissue damage
- Non-pharmacological therapies
- Address the sensory and emotional experiences associated with the tissue damage.
Who or what is the single most powerful nonpharmacologic method of pain relief available to children?
Parents
What is the purpose of non- pharmacolgic intervention?
- Helps reduce the perception of pain
- Helps provide a sence of control
- Helps make pain more tolerable
- Decreases anxiety
- Enhances the effectiveness of analgesics
- Learn the intervention prior to the need
How are the specific non-pharmacological therapies categorized?
- Sensory
- Cognitive behavioral and relaxation
- Imagery
How does sensory techniques work?
They are used to alter one’s perception of pain by stimiulating receptors involved by the senses
What senses might be utilized in non-pharmacological treatment?
- Sight
- smell
- taste
- feeling
- hearing
What is tactile stimulation of cutaneous fibers?
May compete with percieved pain sensations
What is distractng stimulation?
Sensory technique that may refocus attention away from the pain
What are some examples of tactile stimulation?
- Rubbing, stroking, patting, hugging, hand-holding
- Squeezing a soft object (clay or soft ball)
- Using a small vibrating device (buzzy bee)
- Alternating application of heat and cold
- if direct application to the painful area is contraindicated, apply to opposing extremity
- TENS unit
What should we know about the buzzy bee?
Review nothing major
- Buzzy bee uses cold and vibration
- uses natural “gate control pain relief” by confusing the body’s own nerves —> dulling or eliminating sharp pain
- “use between the brain and the pain”
What are some distraction techiniques that can be utilized to distract infants and young children?
- Objects that move or change shape or colors
- Pinwheels, kaleidoscopes, videos, magic wands
- Pop up books; seek and find books
- Puppets
- Rocking
- Non-nutritive sucking
- Music and/or singing
- Play therapy
- Art therapy
What are some distraction techniques we could use for older children/adoescent
- Electronic activites such as video games or tv
- Books/Reading
- Music or singing
- Art therapy
- Aromathrerapy
What are some cognitive behavioral and relaxation techniques that we can use as non-pharmacological interventions?
- Bubble blowing
- counting
- Sometimes backwards or in patterns/groups
- Deep breathing
- progressive muscle relaxation
- Biofeedback
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and/or meditation
What is MBSR?
Mindfulness-based stress reduction and or mediatation: A program that teaches a patient to calm their mind and body as a method to help control pain and stress
What is imagary techiniques in terms of non-pharmacological interventions?
- A form of distraction by allowing one to redirect his or her attention away from the pain to a mental representation of an image
- The key is to let the child or adolescent choose the image or setting to ensure that it is image or setting to ensure that it is one that they enoy and find relaxing
What are different types of imagery ?
- Guided imagery- examples include taking a trip, pain switch, and magic gloves
- hypnosis
- Storytelling and pretending
How can we initate guided imagery by using the “take a trip” technique?
Begin by asking the child/adolescent about a place where he or she would like to go, as this technique works best when the child/adolescent goes, in his or her mind, to a palce where he or she desires to be
How can we initate guided imagery by using the “Pain switch” method?
Ask the child/adolescent to visualize his or her pain as a light or electrical current, and then to describe a switch that can be used to turn off the pain
How can we initate guided imagery by using the magic gloves method?
- Explain to the child that you will be teaching him or her a way to bring comfrot to the body part where a procedure (needle stick, IV start) will occur by placing a “magic glove” on that body part
- Suggest to the child that he or she visualize a magic glove as an article or protective clothing going on the childs body
What are some additional non-pharmacological therapies?
- Yoga
- Tai chi
- physical therapy
- massage
- accupuncture
- energy therapies
- aromatherapy
True or false: Non-Opiods used in conjunction with opioids require less opioid usage?
True: Pain control is better achieved through this combonation method
The patient will experience (More or Fewer) adverse side effects from opiods, since the amount of opioid dose needed for pain control is (Greater or Lessened)
- Fewer
- Lessened
Non-Opiods is great for managing what severity of pain?
Mild to moderate
Non-opiods target the…
PNS