Definition
Physical Pain that occurs when nociceptors are stimulated
What is nociceptive pain
This pain scale is used for young children
What is FLACC
The nurse knows that the standard of pain and pain control is best determined by
What is the patient
Relatively short duration/ resolve with normal healing e.g. surgery
What is Acute Pain?
The most common side effect of the epidural?
What is Hypotension?
Work synergistically with standard pain medications to enhance pain relief and to treat side effects of the medication
What is adjuvant medications
This feeling is often associated with acute pain
What is anxiety
Candidate for nerve block?
What is to manage minor surgical procedures or to manage chronic pain?
Normal pain transmission; most common type; caused by potentially harmful stimuli being detected by nociceptors around the body; a type of receptor that exists to feel all and any pain that’s likely to cause the body harm; time limited e.g. pain after surgery
What is nociceptive pain?
Two factors that you would consider prior to starting a patient on a PCA (patient controlled analgesia)
Can patient's cognition allow for them to understand and follow directions?
Do they have comorbid conditions that would increase the risk of respiratory depression?
Explain the difference between Opioid naïve v opioid tolerant:
Naïve: not recently taken enough opioids to become tolerant
Tolerant: taken enough opioids and in high enough doses to become tolerant to many effects including analgesia and sedation
When expieriencing acute pain vital signs such as heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure are ______ as compared to the client's baseline.
What is increased
Medication used most often to reverse adverse effects e.g. respiratory depression
What is Naloxone?
Abnormal pain transmission; sustained mechanisms that are driven by damage to peripheral or CNS; result of abnormal processing of the stimuli; may occur in the absence of tissue damage e.g. diabetic neuropathy
What is neuropathic pain?
IV infusion pump that delivers a prescribed amount of analgesic when the patient activates a button
PCA pump
The interactive method of pain management. Patient self-administers doses of analgesic agents. Can activate a dose at a set interval.
What is Patient Controlled Analgesia?
Acute pain activates the _______ nervous system
What is Sympathetic
After administering pain medication the nurse understands they must do this within one hour
What is reassess pain and medication effectiveness
Pain that originates in one part of the body but is perceived in an area distant from its point of origin e.g. left arm pain with myocardial infarction
What is referred pain?
Among the benefits of this route is that it provides a measurement of how much pain an individual patient is experiencing from one day to the next
What is a PCA?
What is a nerve block?
List 2 examples of causes of acute pain
What is sudden accidental trauma, surgery, ischemia, acute inflammation
Contraindications for a patient receiving a nerve block
What is patient refusal and local infection?
Is sudden, brief pain that occurs during a period when chronic pain is generally well-controlled (typically, controlled with opioids). May happen when the patient is at rest or be related to activity or a change of position.
What is Breakthrough Pain?
Epidurals and Spinals cannot be given when a patients lab results show _________________ or if the patient has a _______________ disorder.
What are low platelets or a bleeding disorder?