PAIN SCALES
NEONATAL PAIN SCALES
PAIN MANAGEMENT
CONCEPTS OF PAIN
PAIN ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION
100
This scale has six faces and is widely used in the United States
What is Wong Baker "Faces" Scale?
100
This scale includes behavior like sleeplessness and increase in vital signs?
What is CRIES?
100
Medication given for mild to moderate pain
What is tylenol or ibuprofen?
100
Pain that persists for 3 months or longer beyond the expected period of healing
What is chronic pain?
100
If giving a pain medication via IV route, how soon after administration should the medication be effective?
What is 15 minutes?
200
For children 7 years of age and older, 0-10 scale widely used
What is Numeric Pain Scale or "Numbers" Pain scale?
200
Specifically developed for premature infants. This scale gives higher pain scores to infants with lower gestational age?
What is Premature Infant Pain Profile (PIPS)?
200
Preferred pain medication for children when an opioid is needed?
What is Morphine?
200
Episodic in nature like migraines
What is recurrent pain?
200
If giving a pain medication via ORAL route, how soon after administration is the medication effective?
What is 30-60 minutes?
300
The only tool recommended for use with unconscious and ventilated infants, children and adolescents
What is COMFORT scale?
300
TRUE or FALSE: Research has shown that children under 6 months of age cannot feel pain therefore they do not need to be medicated prior to procedures.
FALSE
300
Drug of choice for a PCA pump?
What is Morphine?
300
TRUE or FALSE: Pain is whatever the patient says it is.
TRUE
300
When responding to painful procedures this age group usually uses "stalling behaviors"
What is school aged children?
400
Assessed pain by choice of "no hurt to biggest hurt" similar to the numeric pain scale
What is the VAS or visual analog scale?
400
These types of pain assessment tools are preferred for infants through children through children aged 4?
What is "behavioral" ?
400
Two examples of nonpharmacological pain interventions for children?
What is distraction, relaxation, guided imagery or cutaneous stimulation?
400
____________ and _____________ are the two preferred pain medications for children.
What is Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen?
400
This is the goal of pediatric pain management - Also known as not causing injury or trauma
What is atraumatic care?
500
TRUE or FALSE: You can use the Numeric pain scale on children ages 5 and younger?
FALSE!
500
The _____________ pain scale uses both pictures and numbers. The pictures can be used for preschool children, while older children can also use the numerical scale. The scales include pictures of Caucasian, African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and First Nation children.
What is "Oucher"?
500
Two Nonpharmacological pain interventions for infants?
What is containment, positioning, kangaroo holding or nonnutritive sucking?
500
_____________ is a type of topical cream applied 30 minutes before an IV or injection to reduce the feeling of pain.
What is EMLA cream?
500
This type of analgesia is when we administer medications before pain experience or before surgery is performed
What is "preemptive" analgesia?