acute pain - Answers under 6 months, straight forward healing process
breakthrough pain - Answers intense exacerbation of pain
chronic pain - Answers more than 6 months
visceral pain - Answers abdominal organs
somatic pain - Answers Arises from bone joint, muscle, skin, or connective tissue
Nociceptive pain - Answers damage to somatic or visceral tissue, ongoing activation of sensory
system that percieves noxious stimuli
transduction - Answers nociceptive pain, activation of nociceptors
transmission - Answers nociceptive pain, action potential that allows for reflex stimulation
modulation - Answers nociceptive pain, involves neuro chemicals
neuropathic pain - Answers abnormal processing
neuroplasticity - Answers ability of CNS and PNS to reorganize according to noxious stimulus
dehydration causes/sx - Answers causes- excess urine, respiration, feces, perspiration, sx- high
specific gravity
fluid overload intervention - Answers weighing the patient, inspect- eyes, stomach, fingers,
sacral space, lower extremities
fluid overload sx - Answers heart rate increases
tetany - Answers muscle spasms
hypovolemia causes - Answers vomitting, diarrhea, fishtulas, excessive sweating, burns
hypovolemia sx and labs - Answers sx- weight loss, decreased skin turgor, oliguria, low BP. labs-
high urine specific gravity/BUN/creatine
hypervolemia causes - Answers kidney injury, cirrhosis, heart failure
hypervolemia sx and labs - Answers sx- weight gain, peripheral edema, ascities, high BP. labs-
low hemoglobin, low urine sodium and specific gravity
most of the bodys water is... - Answers intracellular
osmolality - Answers number of solute/solvent, used to evaluate solute in the blood or urine