Chapter 11 NURS 133
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- What are Nocicpetors?
- - Specialized Nerve Endings to Detect Pain fro Periphery
- What is Nocicpetion?
- - Term Used to Describe how Noxious Stimuli are Perceived as Pain
- What is Transduction?
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- Injured Tissue Releases Chemicals that Propagate Pain Message
- Action Potential Moves Along Afferent Fiber to Spinal Cord - What is Transmission?
- - Pain Impulse Moves from Spinal Cord to Brain
- What is Perception?
- - Conscious Awareness of Painful Sensation
- What is Modulation?
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- Neurotransmitters Slow Pain Impulse
- Seratonin, Norepinephrine, Neurotensin - What is Neuropathic Pain?
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- Pain that does NOT Adhere to Typical Phases.
- Pain is Perceived Long After Site of Injury Heals
- Neurons are Transferred into Hyperexcitable State - What is Visceral Pain?
- - Pain From Large Interior Organ
- What is Deep Somatic Pain?
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- From Blood Vessels, Joints
Tendons, Muscles, and Bones - What is Cutaneous Pain?
- - Derived from Skin Surface and Subcutaneous Tissue
- What is Referred Pain?
- - Pain that Originates in One Site But Felt in Another
- What is Acute Pain?
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- Short-Term, Self-Limiting Pain
- Follows Predictable Trajectory and Dissipates After Injury
- Kidney Stones
- Serves Self Protecting Purpose
- < 6 months - What is Chronic Pain?
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- > 6 Months
- Caused by Tissue Necrosis
- Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Lower Back Pain - What is the Best Choice in Assessing Pain of a Child?
- - Wong-Baker FACES Scale
- What is the Best Choice in Assessing Pain of an Infant?
- - CRIES Pain Measurement Score
- What is Reflexive Sympathetic Dystrophy?
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- Neuropathic Pain
- Stimuli in One Area Causes Pain in Another