Pain Midterm CBLs || Already Passed.

Mr. Cohen is a 55 year old man who currently presents with a 72 hour history of headache, feeling tired, achy, and a "weird new rash that itches and burns". Past medical history reveals that he is treated with statins for hypercholesterolemia and SNRI antidepressants for a mild mood disorder. Given all the attention vaccination has gotten lately, you check his immunization records and find that he was not vaccinated against chicken pox, but he did have the disease as a child. Upon physical examination, what would you expect his rash to look like? correct answers On the face crusty lesions The initial process converting various types of energy to sensation of pain is named... correct answers transduction A painful stimulus to the right hand will ascend the spinothalamic tract... correct answers on the contralateral side Pain is always caused by a specific, localized injury T/F correct answers false Pain always serves a functional, biologic purpose T/F correct answers false It is time to present a patient with postherpetic neuralgia to your chief resident. Since you have been supplied with an Ipad to use while in residency, you quickly go online to find information about the patient's condition. Wanting to impress, you download an image which is indicative of your working diagnosis. Which is the most appropriate image correct answers dermatome map The chief resident does not understand what you are talking about. You must not have done a proper physical examination. He parades across the room to finish what you have started. Searching through his overloaded white coat pockets, he pulls out the necessary tools of the trade. He has a stethoscope, reflex hammer, sterile needle, and a cotton tipped applicator (Qtip).. Which would be the best device to test the spinothalamic tract correct answers sterile needle Which of the above devices would be the best to test for allodynia correct answers cotton tipped application Wanting to best the chief resident, you grab a plastic model of the human brain to show him exactly where the patient's pain is represented. What do you point to..... correct answers area 312 After spinal cord injury, a patient continues to complain of ipsilateral pain below the level of injury. The medical resident thinks he must be crazy. It seems physically impossible for the patient to feel this type of pain. The psychiatric consultation finds the patient sane. Which structure would help explain this phenomenon? correct answers tract of Lissauser Which is the order by which the pain of a pinprick is sensed? correct answers transduction-transmission-modulation-perception the nerve at which transduction and transmission occurs is... correct answers first order neuron