NURS 251 Module 8 VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 100% PASS

NURS 251 Module 8 VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 100% PASS Acute pain sudden in onset and usually subsides when treated lasting 6 weeks or less in duration. Chronic pain persistent or recurring and often much more difficult to treat. It is classified as any pain lasting 3-6 months or pain lasting longer than 1 month after healing of an acute injury. Chronic pain is especially hard to treat because changes can occur in how the body responds to analgesics over time. Neuropathic pain pain resulting from a damaged nervous system or damaged nerve cells. does not typically respond to traditional pain medications including opioids and NSAIDs. Addiction chronic neurobiological disease in which genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors induce changes in the individual’s behavior to compulsively use drugs despite the harm they may cause. Analgesics medications that relieve pain without causing loss of consciousness. Opioid analgesics synthetic drugs that bind to the opiate receptors in the brain and relieve pain NSAIDs large chemically diverse group of drugs that are analgesics and also possess anti-inflammatory and antipyretic activity Tolerance state in which repetitive exposure to a given drug over time induces changes in the drug receptors that reduce the drug’s effects. Physical dependence condition in which a patient takes a drug over a period of time and unpleasant physical symptoms (withdrawal) occur if the drug is stopped abruptly or smaller doses are given and is another sign that tolerance has developed. NSAIDs MOA NSAIDs work by inhibiting the leukotriene or prostaglandin pathway or both. They specifically wo