Unit 9 Pain Of The Peri-Operative Patient

Question 1

Adjuvants

Answer 1

Or coanalgesics
Drugs that were originally developed to treat conditions other than pain but have shown to have analgesic properties. Used for acute or chronic pain.

Question 2

Breakthrough Pain

Answer 2

Occasional, transitory exacerbations of intense pain.

Question 3

Epidural

Answer 3

Induces temporary loss of sensation. This permits control or reduction of severe pain without more serious sedative effects of Parenteral or oral narcotics.

Question 4

Local Anaesthesia

Answer 4

Is the infiltration of a local anesthetic medication to induce loss of sensation to a localized body parts.

Question 5

Pain Threshold

Answer 5

The minimal intensity of a stimulus that is perceived as painful.

Question 6

Pain Tolerance

Answer 6

Which is the greatest level of pain as an individual is prepared to endure in a given situation.

Question 7

PCA

Answer 7

Patient Controlled Analgesia

Safe method for pain management that allows patients to self administer opioid doses.

Question 8

Regional Anaesthesia

Answer 8

Is the injection of a local an aesthetic to block a group of sensory nerve fibers.

Question 9

neuropathic Pain

Answer 9

Is associated with a dysfunction of the nervous system that involves an abnormality in the processing of sensations.

Question 10

Phantom Limb Pain

Answer 10

Pain felt in a limb after ambulation.

Question 11

Dermatomes

Answer 11

An area of skin in which sensory nerves derive from a single spinal nerve root.
Head, face, and neck.

Question 12

Multimodal Pain Management

Answer 12

A person approach to pain management that includes multiple medications and techniques, including opioid, non opioid, and topical medications and non pharmacological therapies.

Question 13

Sedation Scale

Answer 13

Used to measure the agitation or sedation level of a patient.