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Pharm ch 20 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pain Experience | an unpleasant sensation that is part of a larger situation |
| Pain Perception(Nociception) | an individual's awareness of the feeling or sensation of pain |
| Pain Threshold | the point at which an individual first acknowledges or interprets a sensation as being painful |
| Pain Tolerance | the individual's ability to endure pain |
| Acute Pain | arises from sudden injury to the structures of the body (skin, muscles, viscera) |
| Chronic Pain | Pain that lasts beyond the term of an injury or painful stimulus-3 months or longer |
| Nociceptive Pain | the result of a stimulus (chemical, thermal, mechanical) to pain receptors |
| Somatic Pain | generally well-localized pain that results from the activation of peripheral nociceptors without injury to the peripheral nerve or central nervous system-dull and aching |
| Visceral Pain | pain that results from the activation of nociceptors of the thoracic, pelvic, or abdominal viscera. It is felt as a poorly localized aching or cramping sensation and is often referred to cutaneous sites. |
| Neuropathic Pain (Nerve Pain) | results from injury to the peripheral or central nervous system |
| Iodpathic Pain | a nonspecific pain of unknown origin |
| Analgesics | are drugs that relieve pain without producing loss of consciousness or reflex activity |
| Opiate Agonists | drugs that mimic the effects of naturally-occurring endorphins in the body, and produce an opiate effect by interacting with the opioid receptor sites. |
| Opiate Partial Agonists | |
| Opiate Antagonists | |
| Salicylates | A group of drugs that includes aspirin and related compounds. Salicylates are used to relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and lower fever. |
| Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID) | is used to distinguish these drugs from steroids, which, among a broad range of other effects, have a similar eicosanoid-depressing, anti-inflammatory action. As analgesics, NSAIDs are unusual in that they are non-narcotic. |
| Nociceptors | the first step leading to the sensation of pain is the stimulation of receptors |
| Opiate Receptors | the CNS contains series of receptors that control pain, stimulation of these receptors by the opiates blocks the pain sensation |
| Range Orders | clinical institutions have established policies for pain medications ordered on a PRN basis |
| Addiction | is an uncontrollable compulsion to repeat a behavior regardless of its negative consequences. A person who is addicted is sometimes called an addict. |
| Drug Tolerance | occurs when a pt requires increases in dosing to receive the same analgesic relief |
| Ceiling Effect | increasing the dosage does not significantly increase the analgesia but definitely increases the incidence of adverse effects |
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