Pain Assessment/Intervention
A type of pain associated with trauma or injury. This type of pain has duration.
What is acute pain?
Acupressure and acupuncture focus on this specific body areas.
What is Meridians?
When gate is open, the pain sensation is allowed through. When the Gate is closed, the pain sensation is blocked. This type of gate theory is called.
What is the Gate Control Theory?
Conscious experience of pain.
What is Perception?
Vital signs affected by acute pain.
What are blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate?
A nonpharmacologic intervention that are most effective for pain relief during the perception phase?
What is guided imagery?
Inhibition of unpleasant stimuli, diminished anxiety, relief of pain, feeling of euphoria are all functions of __________________.
What are Endorphins?
Types of nerve fibers that carry pain stimuli are.
What are small-diameter and large-diameter nerve fibers?
Neurons in the brain send signals back down the spinal cord by releasing this type of neurotransmitters.
What is Modulation?
A type of nociceptive pain that is characterized by a diffuse, sharp, intense, and well-localized. The pain is described as dull, achy, and often arises from the skin, muscle, joints, bones, and ligaments.
What is somatic pain?
The point at which pain is perceived.
What is pain threshold?
____________ increases pain tolerance and improves response to analgesia.
What is Rest?
Associated with pain stimuli from either somatic or visceral structures.
What is Nociceptive pain?
Begins when tissue damage causes the release of substances that stimulate the nociceptors and initiates the sensation of pain.
What is Transduction?
A type of pain that is associated with a dysfunction of the nervous system involving an abnormality of sensations.
What is Neuropathic Pain?
Initial nursing intervention for constipation due to opioid use.
What is increase fluid intake?
A type of nonpharmacological intervention that uses long, firm, short, soft circular strokes to stimulate circulation, relaxes muscles, and increases the general sense of well-being.
What is Massage?
Nociceptors found in the skin, connective tissue, bones, joints or muscles.
What are pain receptors?
Involves movement of the pain sensation to the spinal cord.
What is Transmission?
Pharmacological interventions for neuropathic pain?
What are NSAIDS, Tricyclic Antidepressants, anticonvulsants, and corticosteroids?
A priority nursing when a patient experiences itching and exhibits hives after starting a morphine PCA.
What is stop the PCA infusion?
Nonpharmacologic approaches to pain management.
What are sleep, heat and cold, menthol, distraction, relaxation, guided imagery, meditation, hypnosis, biofeedback, music, massage, acupuncture and acupressure, and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation?
Transduction, transmission, perception, modulation are
What are the four phases of nociceptive pain?
A type of pain that is resistant to treatment or incurable. This type of pain continues even with interventions that attempt to alleviate the pain.
What is intractable pain?
Physiologic responses to pain.
What are increase pulse rate, diaphoresis, muscle tension, nausea, shallow rapid or guarded respirations, pallor, dilated pupils?