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pain management

med surge 2

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triggers a stress response and affects the pulmonary, cardiovascular, GI, endocrine, and immune system acute pain
generally longer than 3 months, resulting in anger, depression, fatigue, and disability chronic pain
pain that radiates to other parts of the body referred pain
pain assessment parameters intensity, timing, location, quality, aggravating or alleviating factors, pain behaviors
true or false: pain is subjective true
sudden increase in pain despite the administration of pain relieving medications breakthrough pain
the need for increasing dosages of opioids to achieve the same therapeutic affect, an expected and normal consequence of longer term opioid use tolerance
behavioral pattern of substance use characterized by compulsion to take the substance primarily to experience its psychological affects. addiction
heightened nervous system response after exposure to a noxious stimulus for too long or too many times sensitization
used to manage post operative pain as well as persistent pain in hospitals and home settings allowing patients to control the administration of their own medication within predetermined safety limits patient controlled analgesia (PCA)
occurs when a person responds to the medication or other treatment because of an expectation that the treatment will work rather than because it actually does placebo affect
non-pharmacological interventions to pain transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, distraction, thermal therapies, relaxation, guided imagery, hypnosis, music therapy, acupuncture, massage,
Created by: izzyruff
 

 



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