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Pain

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show common reason for health care visits  
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show 5 years  
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What are reasons for unrelived pain?   show
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What is pain?   show
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show genetic, autonomic and physical determinants of pain  
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show emotional responce to the pain experience  
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show anger, fear, depression and anxiety  
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What is suffering?   show
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show the observable actions used to express or control the pain  
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What is the cognitive component of pain?   show
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What is the sociocultural dimension of pain?   show
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show the physiologic process by which info about tissue damage is communicated to the CNS  
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What are the 4 processes of nociception?   show
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show the conversion of a mechanical, thermal, or chemical stimulus into a neuronal action potential  
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show peripheral nerves  
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What is peripheral sensitization?   show
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What chemicals are involved in the process of sensitization?   show
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show pain produced from activation of peripheral nociceptors  
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show pain from abonormal processes of stimuli by the nervous system  
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What is transmission?   show
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show transmission along the PN fibers to the spinal cord, dorsal horn processing and transmission to the thalamus and the cerebral cortex  
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What are dermatomes?   show
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show recognized, defined and responded to  
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show activation of descending pathways that exert inhibitory or faciltatory effects on the transmission of pain  
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Nociceptive pain is caused by?   show
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What is somatic pain?   show
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show arises from internal organs such as the intestine and bladder  
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show damage to PN or CNS  
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show centrally generated pain  
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How does neuropathic pain feel?   show
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How long is chronic pain?   show
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Chronic pain is?   show
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show vital sign  
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What are the goals of a nursing pain assessment?   show
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What are the basic pain characteristics?   show
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Pain onset involves finding out?   show
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show how long the pain lasted  
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What is breakthrough pain?   show
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The area of pain assists in identifying?   show
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The intensity of pain provided a reliable measure that is used?   show
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show the nature or characteristics of pain  
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What is titration?   show
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show inserting a catheter into the subarachnoid space  
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show a circumscribed hypersensitive area within a thigh band of muslce that is caused by acute or chronic muslce strain  
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show electrical stimulation of the brain and spinal cord  
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What is neuroablative interventions?   show
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Pain is best described as?   show
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A neurotransmitter know for its involvement in pain modulation is?   show
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Neuropathic pain is?   show
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Unrelieve pain is?   show
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show painful stimuli to an electrical impulse though the peripheral nerve fibers  
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show travels along the nerve fibers and regulated by neurotransmitters  
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show pain threshold  
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show pain tolerance  
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show substance P, prostaglandins, bradykinin, histamine  
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What are substances that decrease pain transmission and produe analgesia?   show
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show brain and is influenced by though and emotional processes  
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Modulation occurs in the?   show
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show protective, temporary, usually self limiting and resolves with tissue healing  
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show fight or flight  
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Behavoioral responses include?   show
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chronic pain is?   show
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show do not usually alter vital signs, but the client may experience depression, fatigue, and a decreased level of functioning  
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show damage to or inflammation of tissue other than that of the peripheral and CNS  
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show throbbing, aching and localized  
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show opioids and nonopioid meds  
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show bone, joint, muscles, skin or connective tissue  
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show an internal organ  
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What is cutaneous?   show
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Neuropathic pain arises from?   show
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What does neuropathic pain include?   show
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Neuropathic pain is usually?   show
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Neuropathic pain typically responds to?   show
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What are risk factors for undertreatment of pain?   show
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show infants, children, older adults, pt's with sub. abuse prob.  
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Causes of acute and chronic pain are?   show
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