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Why is Pain Assessment Important?

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  • Universal symptom experienced by everyone at a certain point in their lives
  • Pain is primary reason clients access healthcare in Canada
  • It has a profound impact on the client’s function, quality of life, relations, family structure, and financial resources
  • Nurses most often assess and help manage a client’s pain
  • everyone experiences at a different extent and some live with chronic diseases that come with pain or acute injuries
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What does the International Association for the Study of Pain state?

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” an unpleasant emotional and sensory experience associated with actual and potential tissue damage, or describes in terms of such”

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4 Components of Pain

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  1. Sensory/Physical
    - action of the pain nerves and effect on physiological status, severity ; stimuli continues until medications stops it
  2. Emotional
    - how the pain makes the client feel, fear, knowledge;
  3. Cognitive
    - effect on behaviour, coping strategies, what does it mean
  4. Social
    - behaviour influenced by cues from others and their reactions, how do you react and respond
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Different ways to classify pain

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  1. Duration
    - acute vs. chronic
  2. Frequency
    - continuous or intermittent (come and go)
  3. Form
    - nociceptive(damage to tissues) vs. neuropathic(nerve pain)
  4. Associated with Cancer
    - pain due to cancer or treatment of cancer
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Types of Pain

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  1. Nociceptive vs. Neuropathic
  2. Visceral
    - organ pain
  3. Somatic
    - felt pain
  4. Cutaneous
    - superficial, skin layers
  5. Referred
    - pain is happening but the origin is somewhere else
  6. Parietal
    - inflammation of abdomen lining
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Acute Pain Assessment

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Sudden onset is a red flag
- explosive headache, chest pain, painful breathing, abdominal pain, pain that is not being relieved by medications

What to do
- take a focused/emergent history
- involve others, family/witnesses
- observe patient and their behaviour

Most reliable indicator of the existence of pain and its intensity os the client’s description of it

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The Patient’s Experience: Factors Influencing their Pain

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age
gender
cultural
spiritual
family and social support
personal meaning of pain
level of anxiety
fatigue
coping style
previous experiences of pain

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Role of Nurse - Pain

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  • The nurse’s are with the patient the most
  • In the best position to observe and notice/monitor changes
  • Important function is the reassessment of pain, follow up is key
  • Document pain, responses to pain, assessments, and outcomes of various treatments
  • Make recommendations - advocate for modifications in treatment plan, communicate client’s wishes and consultations with other services
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Effects of Poorly Managed Pain

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Overall decrease in Quality of Life
- reduced cognitive/mental function
- anxiety, sleeplessness
- High blood sugar
- Increase HR, cardiac output
- Decreased depth of respirations, cough, sputum retention
- Decreased immune response
- Muscle spasm, immobility
- decreased gastric and bowel motility and urinary output

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Multiple Ways to assess Pain

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  • OLDCARTTS
  • OQRSTU
  • Numeric Pain Severity scale
  • Pain/Distress Severity scale
  • Universal Pain Assessment Tool
  • FLACC
  • FACES
  • Brief Pain Inventory
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Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease

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  • Family history
  • Increased age
  • Increased BP
  • Elevated Cholesterol
  • High Blood Sugar(DM)
  • Obesity
  • Cigarette Smoking
  • Diet, Sodium
  • Sedentary lifestyle
  • For Females - after menopause
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Signs and Symptoms of Potential CV Problem

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  • pain in neck, jaw, chest, left shoulder and arm, subscapular, and stomach pain
  • Shortness of Breath - dyspnea, orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea
  • cough
  • diaphoresis (sweating when seated)
  • lightheadedness
  • pain in limbs, ulcers to lower extremities
  • fatigue
  • indigestion/heartburn
  • nausea and vomiting
  • edema
  • pressure…
  • nocturia
  • palpations/dysrhythmia
  • racing heart
  • pre syncope/syncope (fainting)
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Assessment of CV System - History

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  • demographics/SDOH
  • OLDCARTSS
  • current and recent symptoms
  • associated symptoms
  • inquire about respiratory concerns
  • ask about risk factors
  • discuss family history
  • ask past medical history, allergies, and medications
  • social history
  • functional ability (IADLS/ADLS)
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Physical Assessment

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Vital Signs
- start with this
- think about results and compare them
- interpret results in the patient’s own context
- how are the vital signs related to each other and/or if they have an influence
- do findings require urgent action or monitoring

Inspection
- general survey
- skin colour
- respirations
- speech patterns
- size and shape of thorax
- diaphoresis
- fingers ( nail beds, clubbing)
- landmarks
- abnormal pulsations

Palpations of Pulses
- rate, rhythm, strength

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Objective Data : Auscultation - Unexpected Heart Sounds

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Murmurs
- turbulence causing a swooshing or blowing sound
- result of cardiac abnormalities (increased blood velocity, structural valve defects and valve malfunction, abnormal chamber openings)

Bruits
- turbulent flow
- results of partial obstruction sites (carotids, abdominal aortic, renal, iliac, femoral)

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Landmarking - PMI

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Aortic
Pulmonic
ERB
Tricuspid
Mitral

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S1+S2

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S1
- loudest at apex
- AV valve closure ( mitral and tricuspid valves, bet. chambers)
- beginning of systole

S2
- loudest at base
- SL valve closure (aortic and pulmonic valves, out to body/lungs)
- beginning of diastole

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Effects of Aging on the Heart

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  • increased collagen and decreased elastin
  • decreased contractility and HR
  • cardiac valves thicken and become stiffer due to lipid accumulation - valve incompetence or stenosis = murmur
  • decreased number of pacemaker cells in the SA node - bradycardia and heart block
  • decreased control of PNS over the CVS
  • arterial blood vessels thicken and less elastic = high bp
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When to Perform a Neurovascular Assessment?

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  • injury/trauma to limb
  • presence of cast or protective barrier
  • surgery to the limb
  • presence of a wound on the limb
  • conditions that can cause poor circulation
    > cigarrete smoking
    > heart failure
    > venous/arterial insufficienct
    > extreme edema
    > hypothermia
  • client complaining about pain and discomfort
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Arterial vs. Venous Insufficiency

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Arterial
- pain with exertion
- relieved with short rest
- pale when elevated
Venous
- pain described as aching, dull, and heavy
- swelling increasing as day progresses
- pain and edema relieved when elevated
- varicose veins

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Peripheral Vascular Assessment

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  • Movement
  • Temperature
  • Sensation
  • Blanching
  • Colour
  • Edema
  • Pulse
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Rating Scale: Extent of Pitting Edema

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Palpating Neuro Component of Assessment

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Peroneal Nerve and Tibial Nerve - movement and sensation

Radial, Ulnar, and Median Nerve - movement and sensation

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Reynauld’s

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  • restricts blood flow to finger/toes
  • caused by cold, stress
  • turns white, feels numb
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Acute Neurovascular Assessment
1. Arterial Occlusion 2. Deep Venous Thrombosis 3. Compartment Syndrome All accompanied with pain
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Ventilation? Diffusion? Perfusion?
Ventilation - the air going in and coming back out Diffusion - gas exchange at the capillaries; movement of co2 and o2 Perfusion - the ability of the oxygenated blood to reach the lungs, blood flow to the lungs
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Challenges to the Respiratory System
Smoking - first, second, and third hand - e-cigarettes and vaping Environmental Factors - occupation - home - travel
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Respiratory: Subjective Data
- cough ( are you coughing anything up?...) - dyspnea (SOB, SOBOE) - chest pain - past medical history - family history - self-care activities - allergies - immunizations - determinants of health
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Respiratory: Objective Data
Inspection - prior to physical assessment; notice, observe, inspect and have patient interaction - blue discolouration; deoxygenated blood - cyanosis Palpation - chest tendernes (sternum, paravertebral muscles, point tenderness) - "extra" assessments (if chest x-ray is not possible); chest excursion, tactile fremitus - abnormal findings (crepitus(air in subcutaneous tissues) Auscultation - Suprasternal notch - Angle of Louis (sternal angle) - Costal angle - Scapular, clavicular, axillary lines - Cervical vertebra #7
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Auscultation Sounds
Normal Sounds: - bronchial - vesicular - bronchovesicular Abnormal/Adventitious Sounds: - diminished sounds - absent sounds - friction rub - crackles - wheezes
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Auscultation Sounds: Normal Sounds
Bronchial - loud, hollow 'tubular' sounds - high pitched - considered abnormal if heard over peripheral lung fields - distinct pause bet. inspiration and expiration - inspiration to expiration ratio of 1:2 or 1:3 Vesicular - soft, low pitched - 'rustling' quality with inspiration - even softer during expiration - majority of lung sounds - inspiration/expiration ratio of 3:1 Broncho-Vesicular - normally hear in the mid-chest - inspiration/expiration ratio of 1:1
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Auscultation Sounds: Adventitious Sounds
Crackles - fine crackles are brief, discontinuous, popping lung sounds that are high pitched; atelectasis - course crackles are brief, discontinuous, popping lung sounds that are lower in pitch, louder, and last longer; pneumonia Friction Rub - low-pitched, short, grating sound Wheeze - musical sounds caused by narrowing of the airways - asthma
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Promoting Respirations and Oxygenation
- promote lung expansion - prevent stasis of secretions - maintain patent airway - promote adequate exchange of o2 and co2
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Developmental Variations - Infants (respiratory)
- irregular is normal - nose breathers - broncho-vesicular sounds are heard - abdominal rises rather than chest - after 2 years old, the breathing shifts to intercostal - apnea should never exceed 15 seconds
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Pregnancy (respiratory)
- increase in tidal volume to meet the fetus' need for o2 - the diaphragm rises and the costal angle widens
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Aging - Older Adults (respiratory)
- alveoli tend to fibrose resulting in decreased surface area for gas exchange - lung capacity decreases due to muscle weakness and less elasticity - more dead space, trapped air, and less vital capacity - thoracic spine curves (kyphosis) which gives the appearance of barrel chest
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Focused Assessment: Subjective Data Collection
Assessment of risk factors - demographic data - past medical history - family history - nutrition and medications Psychosocial history Occupation, lifestyle, and behaviours Functional Assessment
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Focused Assessment: Subjective Data Collection
Assessment of risk factors - demographic data - past medical history - family history - nutrition and medications Psychosocial history Occupation, lifestyle, and behaviours Functional Assessment
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Focused Assessment: Subjective Data Collection
Assessment of risk factors - demographic data - past medical history - family history - nutrition and medications Psychosocial history Occupation, lifestyle, and behaviours Functional Assessment
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Focused Assessment: Subjective Data Collection
Assessment of risk factors - demographic data - past medical history - family history - nutrition and medications Psychosocial history Occupation, lifestyle, and behaviours Functional Assessment
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Musculoskeletal: Focused Assessment: Subjective Data Collection
Assessment of risk factors - demographic data - past medical history - family history - nutrition and medications Psychosocial history Occupation, lifestyle, and behaviours Functional Assessment
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Musculoskeletal: Special Circumstances
Pathological factors: fractures resulting from disease processes; cancer deterioration of the bone; not from an accident or injury Pregnancy: - increased levels of circulatory hormones may increase mobility of joints - changes in maternal posture; lordosis of low back, shifts back with time - compensate for enlarging fetus; centre of gravity shifts causes the waddle - strain or lower back muscles and pain in late pregnancy - sciatic nerve pain from pressure(take peripheral vascular assessment) - anterior flexion of neck, slumping of shoulders - hips and pelvis move forward, joints loosen to deliver Scoliosis: special tests - patient standing erect - patient bending forward - limb measurement Polio: the lasting effects - poliovirus attacks the long bones, disease the growing bones, asymmetrical growth - postpolio; loses function in leg Basilar Skull Fracture - damage to skull including all lobes - symptoms - battle's sign which is bruising from bleeding behind ear; raccoon eyes which is bleeding into orbital cavities and cause bleeding into tissues --children are more prone to head injury
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Muscoskelton Life Span Considerations

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