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Pain Lewis 10 Fill In The Blanks

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Question: Complex, multidimensional , that causes suffering and reduces quality of life, and major reason that people seek health care Answer:
Question: What are the of the nursing role in regards to pain (4)? Answer: 1. Assess and communicate 2. Ensure adequate pain relief 3. Evaluate effectiveness of pain relief 4. Advocate for patient with
Question: What are the of untreated pain? Answer: unnecessary suffering, physical and psychosocial dysfunction, impaired recovery from acute illness and , immunosuppression , and sleep disturbances
Question: What is the definition of pain according to Margo ? Answer: “Whatever the person experiencing the pain says it is, whenever the person says it does.”
Question: What is the definition of pain to the International Association for the Study of Pain? Answer: “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in of such damage”
Question: Who is the expert, most valid means of pain ? Answer: the
Question: What does the do if the patient cannot verbally communicate their pain? Answer: incorporate nonverbal information such as behaviors into pain assessment
Question: What are responses to pain? Answer: Anger, fear, , anxiety
Question: Studies have consistently demonstrated a link between __________ and __________. Answer: and Pain
Question: suffering. Answer: the of severe distress associated with events that threaten the intactness of the person
Question: What are some cues to pain? Answer: grimacing, withdrawal, less physical activity
Question: What is the physiologic process by which information tissue damage is communicated to the central nervous system?Answer:
Question: What the four of nociception? Answer: transduction, , perception, modulation
Question: What is the of a mechanical, thermal, or chemical stimulus into a neuronal action potential called? Answer: Transduction
Question: Where does take place? Answer: at the peripheral nerves, the free nerve endings/nociceptors
Question: Give some of the chemicals that excite nociceptors to excitation? Answer: prostaglandins, , serotonin, substance P, histamine
Question: How does the action potential get from the to the spinal cord? Answer: Via small, rapidly conducting, myelinated A-delta fibers and unmyelinated, conducting C fibers
Question: What is pain? Answer: Pain caused by the activation of nociceptors
Question: What would a pain therapy need to do in order to transduction and initiation of an action potential? Answer: Decrease the effect of the chemicals released at the periphery or alter the sensitivity of the peripheral
Question: What block the action of cyclooxygenase thereby blocking the production of prostaglandins? Answer: NSAIDS
Question: Name some NSAIDS. Answer: Advil, Motrin, Naprosyn,
Question: What drugs block the action of phospholipase thereby blocking the production of prostaglandins and ? Answer: Corticosteriods
Question: Name some that block action potential on pain nerves by stabilizing the neuronal membrane and inactivating the sodium channels. Answer: anesthetics like Lidocaine, bupivacaine (Sensorcaine) and antiseizure drugs like carbamazepine (Tegretol), oxcarbazepine (Trileptol), and lamotrigine (Lamictal)
Question: What is ? Answer: the movement of pain impulses from the site of transduction to the
Question: What are the 3 involved in transmission? Answer: 1. Peripheral nerves to spinal cord 2. horn processing 3. Transmission to the thalamus and cortex
Question: What are ?Answer: on the skin that are innervated primarily by a single spinal cord segment
Question: are nocieptive signals first processed in the CNS? Answer: the horn of the spinal cord
Question: What kind of signal do these produce? Glutamate, aspartate, substance P Answer:
Question: What kind of signal do these neurotransmitters ? Y-aminobutyric acid (GABA), serotonin, norepinephrine Answer:
Question: In the dorsal horn, how do opioids work to pain? Answer: They block the of neurotransmitters, particularly substance P.
Question: What are two of opioids? Answer: exogenous and
Question: Morphine is an example of what kind of ? Answer: exogenous
Question: Enkephalin and Beta Endorphin are of what kind of opioid? Answer:
Question: What is sensitization? Answer: a in which neurons activated by noxious mechanical and chemical stimuli are sensitized by such stimuli and become hyper-responsive to all subsequent stimuli delivered to the neurons' receptive fields (thefreedictionary.com).
Question: What is it called when enhanced in the spinal neurons occurs? Answer: Central
Question: What is necessary to maintain central ? Answer: continued input from the periphery
Question: What causes firing of specialized dorsal horn neurons to gradually ? Answer: ongoing stimulation of c-fiber (slow)
Question: What is ? Answer: gradually increased firing of specialized dorsal horn neurons in to ongoing stimulation of c-fiber nociceptors
Question: What are NMDA receptor promising agents for treating central sensitization? Answer: because windup is dependent on the of NMDA
Question: What kind of are thought to play a role in central pain modulation? Answer: glial
Question: What are 4 clinical results of sensitization? Answer: Hyperalgesia, allodynia, pain, referred pain
Question: What is ? Answer: Increased response to noxious stimuli- what used to hurt, now hurts.
Question: What is ? Answer: painful response to normally innocuous – what used not hurt, now hurts!
Question: What is pain? Answer: prolonged pain after the noxious stimulus is gone – It shouldn’t hurt, but it does.
Question: What is pain? Answer: the spread of pain to uninjured – That spot shouldn’t hurt, but it does.
Question: What is a order neuron? Answer: a that conducts impulses from a somatic receptor into the brainstem or spinal cord
Question: What is a second neuron? Answer: a neuron that conducts impulses from the brain stem and spinal cord to the
Question: What do order neurons do? Answer: conduct impulses from the thalamus to the
Question: does nociceptive stimuli go from the dorsal horn? Answer: to third order neurons primarily in the thalamus and to several other areas of the
Question: What is it called when pain is recognized, defined and responded to by the experiencing the pain? Answer: perception
Question: In what area of the does pain perception occur? Answer: There is no single area in the for pain perception
Question: What area of the brain is believed to be for warning the individual to respond to the pain stimulus? Answer: the activating system (RAS)
Question: What area of the brain is believed to be responsible for localization and of pain? Answer: system
Question: What area of the brain is believed to be responsible for the emotional and responses to pain? Answer: system
Question: What area of the is believed to be responsible for constructing the meaning of the pain? Answer: structures
Question: What is ?Answer: Modulation involves the activation of descending pathways that inhibitory or facilitatory effects on the transmission of pain.
Question: The degree of __________ determines the amount of nociceptive stimulation that may or may not be perceived as pain. Answer:
Question: Name some drugs that use modulation to relieve pain by blocking the reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine so that there is more to inhibit noxious stimuli. Answer: Cymbalta, Elavil, Effexor (used for pain)
Question: What are the two categories of pain based on the underlying ? Answer: and neuropathic
Question: Pain caused by damage to somatic or visceral tissue is _________ ________. Answer: Pain
Question: Somatic and visceral pain are types of ______ ______. Answer: pain
Question: does somatic pain come from? Answer: Bone, , Joint, Skin, Connective tissue
Question: What is the quality of somatic pain? Answer: fairly , usually aching or throbbing
Question: does visceral pain come from? Answer: organs
Question: Which type of pain is not well controlled by opioid analgesics alone? Answer: Neuropathic
Question: The fifth sign Answer:
Question: Name 7 pain characteristics that should be . Answer: onset, duration and of pain, location, intensity, quality, associated symptoms, and factors that increase or relieve pain
Question: Patients typically describe ________ pain as burning, numbing, shooting, stabbing , or itchy sensations. Answer:
Question: Patients typically describe _________ pain as sharp, aching, throbbing, and cramping. Answer: nociceptive
Question: What are the non ? Answer: acetaminophen, aspirin and other salicylates, and
Question: Name 3 things that characterize non . Answer: 1) analgesic ceiling 2) No tolerance or dependence 3) OTC
Question: What kind of pain is caused by to peripheral nerves or the CNS?Answer:
Question: Name 3 affect associated with aspirin. Answer: gastric , platelet dysfunction, and bleeding
Question: How is (Tylenol) like aspirin and how is it different? Answer: Like: analgesia and effects Different: no anti-platelet or anti-inflammatory effects
Question: is acetaminophen metabolized? Answer: In the
Question: Which patients are in danger of hepatotoxicity with ? Answer: Patients with liver or alcoholism
Question: What is the maximum dose for acetaminophen especially for older adults? Answer: 3
Question: Cox Answer:
Question: What have NSAIDs (except aspirin) been to? Answer: increased cardiovascular events such as and myocardial infarction
Question: Patients who have just had heart surgery should not have _______. Answer:
Question: What does COX 1 do? Answer: gastric and renal blood flow and platelet adhesion
Question: What does COX 2 do? Answer: promotes
Question: What kind of drug was and why was it pulled from the market? Answer: selective cox 2 inhibitor, Vioxx was pulled from the market along with Bextra due to about adverse cardiovascular events (MI).
Question: Use of what non should be limited with elderly patients and patients with a history of PUD? Answer:
Question: What is the same Morphine, Oxycontin, hydrocodone, codeine, methadone, Dilaudid and Levo-Dromoran? Answer: They are pure opioid
Question: What kind of pain are pure agonists used for and why? Answer: moderate to severe because they are and have no analgesic ceiling
Question: What vital sign is very to monitor when our patient is on Morphine and why? Answer: Respirations because morphine can cause respiratory
Question: If we are to administer morphine to our patient but their respirations are > 12, what do we do? Answer: We the medication and alert the physician.
Question: When are prescribed for moderate pain, what other analgesic is often included? Answer: or NSAIDs
Question: Give some opioids mixed with nonopioid analgesics. Answer: Tylenol 3= codeine plus acetaminophen, Vicodin = hydrocodone plus acetaminophen, Vicoprofen = plus acetaminophen
Question: What are the five of pain? Answer: physiologic, affective, , cognitive, sociocultural
Question: What is the dimension of pain? Answer: the genetic, , and physical determinants of pain
Question: What is the dimension of pain? Answer: response to pain including anger, depression, fear, and anxiety
Question: What is the component of pain? Answer: the actions used to express or control the pain like grimacing or becoming less physically active or socially withdrawn
Question: What does the cognitive of pain refer to? Answer: the beliefs, attitudes, memories, and meaning attributed to
Question: What does the dimension of pain encompass? Answer: factors like (age, gender, education, socioeconomic status) support systems, social roles, and culture
Question: Name some modulating chemicals sent down by the to tone down pain signals. (SON GABA)Answer: Serotonin, Opioid, Norepinephrine,
Question: Name three antidepressants that work for pain modulation in by blocking the reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine. Answer: Elavil, Effexor, and
Question: If the patient describes describes deep,cramping, sharp, aching, or throbbing pain, what kind of pain is he likely to be ? Answer: pain
Question: If the patient describes pain that is numbing, burning, , stabbing or electirical in nature, what kind of pain is he experiencing? Answer: Neuropathic
Question: What is the definition that quantifies pain as ?Answer: lasting 3 months or past the time when pain is expected to should subside
Question: What are the characteristics of pain that we need to ?Answer: onset, duration, pattern, location, intensity, quality, associated symptoms, what makes it or worsens it
Question: What are the categories of pain drug therapy? Answer: nonopioid, , and co-analgesic/adjuvant drugs
Question: What pain are included in the nonopioid category (4)? Answer: acetaminophen, aspirin, , and NSAIDs
Question: What are shared by nonopioid analgesics? Answer: analgesic (more drug does not equal more pain relief after reaching the ceiling), no tolerance/physical dependence, often OTC/no RX required
Question: What level of pain is aspirin for and what are its ? Answer: aspirin is for mild pain, drawbacks=gastric upset, platelet dysfunction, and
Question: How is like aspirin and how is it different (2 sames/2 differents)? Answer: Has analgesic and like asa. Does not have anti-inflammatory or anti-platelet
Question: What organ could suffer from doses greater than 3 to 4 g/day of ? Answer: is metabolized in the liver/hepatotoxicity
Question: What kind of analgesic by inhibiting the enzyme that converts arachidonic acid into prostaglandins?Answer: (Cox inhibitors)
Question: ¬¬¬Inhibition of _________ causes renal function impairment, bleeding tendencies, GI upset and ulceration, the bad side effects of NSAIDs. Inhibition of__________ reduces inflammation in injured tissues. Answer: Cox 1 cox
Question: Why were Vioxx and Bextra pulled from the ? Answer: Concerns about increased risk of adverse cardiovascular effects: MI, , and Heart failure
Question: What intensity of pain are for? Answer: to severe
Question: Why is it that opioids can treat to severe pain when nonopioids can not? Answer: opioids have no analgesic ceiling, increase dose=increase pain
Question: Name 6 opiods. Answer: oxycodone (Oxycontin), hydrocodone, codeine, methadone, hyromorphone (Dilaudid), and (Levo-Dromoran)
Question: opioid is the standard of comparison for all other opioids? Answer:
Question: Which opioid should not be used in doses more than 600mg per 24 hours, for more than 2 days, for chronic pain, nor for on Monoamine oxidase inhibitors because its metabolites are neurotoxic? Answer: meperidine (Demoral, )
Question: What are the side effects of opioids (5 )? Answer: constipation, sedation, N&V, depression, pruritus
Question: Which opioid side is not likely to improve with time? Answer:
Question: Why are patients who are on an often also taking Reglan-metocloparmide? Answer: with nausea and vomiting/ antiemetic
Question: Which patients would be at an increased risk for respiratory depression on an ? Answer: opioid , elderly, underlying lung disease, receiving other CNS depressants (sedatives, benzodiazepines, antihistamines)
Question: What drug will be carefully employed if you cannot rouse your patient from a induced somnolence? Answer: Narcan-Naloxone 0.4mg in 10mL saline in 0.5mL increments every 2 IV or subcut
Question: What drug class, also used as an adjuvant drug, works by preventing reuptake of and norepinephrine? Answer: antidepressants
Question: What side should we monitor for if our patient is taking an antidepressant for pain relief? Answer: anticholinergic side like dry mouth, urinary retention, sedation, orthostatic hypotension, weight gain and sexual dysfunction
Question: Amitriptyline, doxepin, imipramine, and nortriptyline are all what type of ? Answer: antidepressants
Question: Carbamazepine (Tegretol), and Gabapentin (Neurontin) are what kind of ? Answer: antiseizure
Question: What kind of drug is (Lioresal)?Answer: muscle - particular useful for neuropathic pain and muscle spasms
Question: What kind of drugs are (Duraclon, Catapres) and tizanidine (Zanaflex)? Answer: Alpha two andrenergic
Question: Which group of adjuvant drugs is good for pain as well as prophylaxis of migraine headaches? Answer: drugs
Question: What kind of drugs are dexamethasone (Decadron), prednisone, and (medrol)? Answer:
Question: group of adjuvant drugs is good for neuropathic pain as well as chronic headache? Answer: alpha two antagonists
Question: What are the common side effects of the alpha two adrenergic ? Answer: sedation, dry mouth, hypotension
Question: Which kind of adjuvant drugs are especially useful when injected epidurally for acute and subacute disk because they can decrease activation of an inflamed neuron? Answer:
Question: What class of adjuvant drugs is used for acute and chronic cancer pain, pain secondary to cord compression and inflammatory joint pain syndromes? Answer:
Question: What are the side associated with corticosteroids? Answer: hyperglycemia, fluid retention, , GI bleeding, impaired healing, muscle wasting, osteoporosis, adrenal suppression, and immunosupression – eeesh!
Question: What class of drugs should not be at the same time as corticosteroids because they work through the same final pathways? Answer: NSAIDS
Question: Which type of drug works by interfering with nociceptive impulses, and is mainly used for muscle spasms? Answer: GABA receptor agonist like (Lioresal)
Question: What is analgesic ? Answer: dose adjustment based on assessment of pain vs. side effects
Question: What is the goal of titration? Answer: to use the smallest dose of analgesic that provides effective pain relief and with the fewest side
Question: Give 8 we follow when treating pain. Answer: everybody deserves pain relief, treatment based on goals, combine drug and nondrug therapy, manage side effects, collaborate, Evaluate, educate
Question: Name two that we don’t use often because of limited efficacy or toxicities. When we do use them, it is definitely not for long term. Answer: propxyphen (Darvon) and meperidine (Demerol, )
Question: Therapies that alter either the local environment or sensitivity of the peripheral nociceptors can prevent ____________ and initiation of an action potential. Answer:
Question: Give some examples of that prevent transduction. Answer: By blocking pain sensitizing chemicals: NSAIDs like ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), (Naproyn, Aleve); corticosteroids like dexamethasone (Decadron)- By changing the sensitivity of peripheral nociceptors: local anesthetics and antiseizure drugs.
Question: What kind of opioid is administered transmucosally and for before surgery and procedures and cancer break through pain? Answer: citrate (Actiq)
Question: Name some long acting forms of (12-24 hours). Answer: Kadian, , MSContin
Question: Name some release formulations of oxycodone. Answer: OxyContin, SR
Question: What opioid is administered intranasally for acute headache and other intense, types of pain? Answer: (Stadol)
Question: What is an GI route for a patient who needs pain relief but nauseous and vomiting? Answer: rectal
Question: Name the analgesics that are in rectal formulations (4 PHs). Answer: hydromorPHone, , morPHine, acetaminoPHen
Question: What could we do for a patient with a fetanyl patch if they get rashes from the adhesive on the patch? Answer: prepare the skin one hour before placement with a corticosteroid .
Question: What kind of patch can be used to help with pain (if the skin is unbroken)? Answer: Lidoderm patch (5% lidocaine impregnated) good for up to 12 few side effects
Question: What are and Myoflex used for? Answer: joint and pain
Question: Which aspirin side effect is avoided with Aspercream and ? Answer: GI
Question: Name a topical pain relief drug from red chilli peppers. Answer: Capsaicin (ICY-HOT, )
Question: What kind of pain relief is covered with plastic for 30 to 60 minutes before a painful procedure? Answer: EMLA (eutectic [melty] mixture of anesthetics)
Question: What administration route is best for immediate , rapid titration, and maintaining steady analgesia and blood levels of drug ? Answer: IV
Question: What administration route is not recommended, although frequently used, because it hurts, absorption is , and chronic use can result in fibrosis and abcesses? Answer:
Question: Why does it only take a little bit of drug if it delivered ? Answer: because it is delivered close to the receptors in the cord dorsal horn
Question: 1mg of intrathecal morphine is equal to ____mg of epidural morphine is equal to _____mg of IV morphine is equal to _____mg of oral morphine. Answer: 10mg,100mg,
Question: Name 6 that are administered intraspinally. Answer: morphine, fentanyl, sufentanil (Sufenta), hydromorphone (Dilaudid), ziconotide (Prialt) (a channel receptor modulator for use in neurpathic pain syndromes) and clonidine.
Question: What are the common side effects with intraspinal ? Answer: Nausea, itching, urinary retention; clonidine- hypotension; ziconotide dizziness, ataxia, nausea, , headache
Question: a “Wet tap”? Answer: Oops, we and a little CSF leaked out. Results in severe headache that only hurts when the patient is sitting or standing
Question: How do we check if a catheter is correctly placed (hasn’t migrated)? Answer: we CSF
Question: Give three types of areas that not be treated with cold therapy. Answer: areas being treated with therapy, open wounds, and areas with poor circulation
Question: Give four types of that should not be treated with heat therapy. Answer: areas being treated with therapy, bleeding areas, recently injured (within the past 24 hours), or areas with decreased sensation
Question: What are six things we want our patients to know when we about pain? Answer: Negative if unrelieved, maintain a record of level and relief, don’t wait till pain gets bad to ask for pain relief, dosage can be adjusted if loses effectiveness, side effects, report when not relieved
Question: What is the formula for tapering a patient off an to which they have developed dependence. Answer: daily dose x 50%= New dose give 1/4 q6hrs for 2 days. New daily dose x 75% give 1/4 q6hrs for 2 days. Repeat till daily dose is 30mg per day for 2 days. Then stop.
Question: Give 10 early (6-12hrs) of opioid withdrawal. Answer: Anxiety, tears, runny nose, sweating, yawning, piloerection, chills, dilated pupils, anorexia, tremor
Question: Give 9 late (48-72 hrs) of opioid withdrawal. Answer: excitation, diarrhea, restlessness, fever, nausea and , cramping abdominal pain, hypertension, tachycardia, insomnia
Question: What is the rule of effect teach us? Answer: The rule states that if an consequence (hastened death) occurs as a result of an action taken to achieve a moral good (pain relief), the action is justified because the nurse’s intent is to relieve pain.
Question: What age group is the adage “start low and go relevant for and why? Answer: for older patients because they metabolize drugs more slowly so are at greater risk for high blood levels and side
Question: Why is acetaminophen preferred to in older adults? Answer: because NSAIDs are associated with a high frequency of GI bleeding
Question: what are the components of the role in regards to pain the rhyming way(4)?Answer: assess and comminicate, , evaluate, advocate
 
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