Comfort And Pain Management

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Acute pain

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Episode of pain that lasts for seconds to less than six months.

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Acupuncture

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Technique that uses needles of various lengths to prick specific parts of the body to produce insensitivity to pain.

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Addiction

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A drive to obtain med for other than the prescribed reason

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Analgesic

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Pharmaceutical agent used to relieve pain

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Anesthesia

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Loss of sensation with, or without loss of consciousness

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Chronic pain

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Episode of pain that lasts for 6 months or longer; may be intermittent or continuous.

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Comfort

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A satisfying or enjoyable experience; to ease the grief or trouble of.

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Conversion reaction

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A psychoneurosis in which bodily symptoms appear without physical basis.

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Deep pain

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May be persistent chronic with acute episodes; may be described as intractable (nothing makes it better)

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Drug abuse

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Use of a drug without medical justification.

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Gate control theory

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Theory that explains that excitatory pain stimuli carried by small-diameter nerve fibers can be blocked by inhibiting signals carried by large-diameter nerve fibers.

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Ischemia

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Deficiency of blood in a particular area.

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Intractable pain

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Severe pain that is extremely resistant to relief measures.

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Narcotic

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A drug that in moderate doses dulls the senses, relieves pain, and induces profound sleep but in excessive doses causes stupor, coma, or convulsions.

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Pain

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Sensation of physical or mental suffering or hurt that usually causes distress or agony to the one experiencing it.

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Pain perception

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Sensory process when a stimulus for pain is present.

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Pain reaction

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How a person responds to pain.

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Pain threshold

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Amount of stimulation that required before a person experiences the sensation of pain.

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Pain tolerance

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Point beyond which a person is no longer willing to endure pain. (ie, pain of greater duration or intensity).

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Placebo

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An inactive substance that gives satisfaction to the person using it.

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Phantom limb pain

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Sensation of pain without demonstrable physiologic or pathologic substance; commonly observed after the amputation of a limb.

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Psychogenic pain

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Pain for which no physical cause can be identified.

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Radiating pain

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Pain spread abroad or around as if from a center.

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Referred pain

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Pain in an area removed from that in which stimulation has its origin.

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Superficial pain

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Pain only affecting the surface.

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Visceral pain

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Pain originating in the internal organs; in the thorax, cranium, or abdomen.

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Withdrawal

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The discontinuance of administration or use of a drug.

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Aspirin

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A white crystalline derivative of salicylic acid used for relief of pain or fever.

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Codeine

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Narcotic analgesic that relieves pain.

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Demerol

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Narcotic analgesic that relieves pain.

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Dilaudid

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Narcotic analgesic that relieves pain.

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Percodan

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Aspirin and oxycodone (analgesic that relieves pain).

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Phenergan

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Used to cause sedation (sleep), to assist in controlling postoperative pain, to control nausea and vomiting and prevent motion sickness.

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NSAIDS

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Nonsteroidal antinflammatory drugs: Ibuprofen, Motrin, Advil

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Tylenol

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Acetaminophen