Definition
Acute Pain
Nursing Interventions
Types of Pain
PCA/Epidural
100

Physical Pain that occurs when nociceptors are stimulated

What is nociceptive pain 

100

This pain scale is used for young children 

 What is FLACC 

100

The nurse knows that the standard of pain and pain control is best determined by

What is the patient 

100

Relatively short duration/ resolve with normal healing e.g. surgery

What is Acute Pain?

100

The most common side effect of the epidural?

What is Hypotension?

200

Work synergistically with standard pain medications to enhance pain relief and to treat side effects of the medication

What is adjuvant medications

200

This feeling is often associated with acute pain

 What is anxiety 

200

Candidate for nerve block?

What is to manage minor surgical procedures or to manage chronic pain?

200

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?

200

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?

300

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

300

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

300

Medication used most often to reverse adverse effects e.g. respiratory depression

What is Naloxone?

300

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?

300

IV infusion pump that delivers a prescribed amount of analgesic when the patient activates a button

PCA pump 

400

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?

400

Acute pain activates the _______ nervous system 

What is Sympathetic 

400

After administering pain medication the nurse understands they must do this within one hour 

What is reassess pain and medication effectiveness 

400

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?

400

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?

500
The production of insensibility in a part of the body by injecting an anesthetic close to the nerves that supply it.


What is a nerve block?

500

List 2 examples of causes of acute pain 

What is sudden accidental trauma, surgery, ischemia, acute inflammation

500

Contraindications for a patient receiving a nerve block

What is patient refusal and local infection?

500

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?

500

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?