NURS 1010 - Pain Exam Questions and Answers
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Something external; may come on quickly and it is
Define pain
more difficult to ignore
Something internal; a persistent physical discomfort,
typically dull
Define ache
Ex: toothache
to feel pain; to accidentally cause pain or injury (can
Define hurt
be emotional pain as well as physical pain)
T/F: all aches are pains, true
but not all pains are aches
an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience
what is pain?
associated with actual or potential tissue injury.
what is (acute) pain a protective mechanism
primarily?
who said this: McCaffery, 1968
pain is whatever the
experiencing person says
it is, existing whenever he
says it does
what are the two ways nociceptive and neuropathic
pain can be classified as?
, (transduction) - prostaglandins
- bradykinin
what are the sensitizing - serotonin
chemicals that are release - substance p
by noxious stimuli which - histamine
cause cell damage
(transduction) activate nociceptors and lead to generation of action
potential
sensitizing chemicals
(pbssh) activate what and
lead to what
- site of injury -> spinal cord
(transmission)
- spinal cord -> brainstem and thalamus
what is the route of action
potential?
- thalamus -> cortex (for processing)
what is the third step in the perception - the conscious experience of pain
physiological dimensions
in pain?
what is the first step in the transduction
physiological dimensions
in pain?
what is the second step in transmission
the physiological
dimensions in pain?
what is the fourth step in modulation
the physiological
dimensions in pain?
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Terms in this set (79)
Something external; may come on quickly and it is
Define pain
more difficult to ignore
Something internal; a persistent physical discomfort,
typically dull
Define ache
Ex: toothache
to feel pain; to accidentally cause pain or injury (can
Define hurt
be emotional pain as well as physical pain)
T/F: all aches are pains, true
but not all pains are aches
an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience
what is pain?
associated with actual or potential tissue injury.
what is (acute) pain a protective mechanism
primarily?
who said this: McCaffery, 1968
pain is whatever the
experiencing person says
it is, existing whenever he
says it does
what are the two ways nociceptive and neuropathic
pain can be classified as?
, (transduction) - prostaglandins
- bradykinin
what are the sensitizing - serotonin
chemicals that are release - substance p
by noxious stimuli which - histamine
cause cell damage
(transduction) activate nociceptors and lead to generation of action
potential
sensitizing chemicals
(pbssh) activate what and
lead to what
- site of injury -> spinal cord
(transmission)
- spinal cord -> brainstem and thalamus
what is the route of action
potential?
- thalamus -> cortex (for processing)
what is the third step in the perception - the conscious experience of pain
physiological dimensions
in pain?
what is the first step in the transduction
physiological dimensions
in pain?
what is the second step in transmission
the physiological
dimensions in pain?
what is the fourth step in modulation
the physiological
dimensions in pain?
