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18 Cards in this Set
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Why might labor pains be evolutionarily advanatageous?
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They may function as signals to bring other species to mother's side when she is in pain so they can provide emotional and physical support
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What are the three components of pain?
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Sensory - nociception
Emotional Response - pain mom feels Social Response = pain resonses for others |
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Describe the emotional response to pain.
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It is culturally conditioned; how your culture tells you to respond to pain
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Where does labor pain originate from in the first stage of labor?
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Mechanical distentions of lower uterine segment and cervix - stretching causes gastrointestinal cramping and creates abdominal pain
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Where is labor pain coming from in second stage of labor?
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Stretching of t he vagina, pelvic floor, and posterior vagina and perineum. These stimuli are transmitted through sacrum roots.
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Intensity of pain increases with intensity of __________.
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Contraction
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Painful stimuli is exaggerated by _________.
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Anxiety
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What has a powerful influence on how pain is experienced and influenced?
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The environment in which labor occurs
- who is present - the way people are communicating verbally and non-verbally - attitude -strangeness in the environment |
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What is the difference between pain and suffering?
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Pain is a sensory experience and suffering has to do with how that pain is received, understood, and internalized
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What is Doula mean?
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It is greek word meaning woman caregiver of another woman. A labor companion who provides the woman and her partner with emotional support during delivery
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What was the presence of the doula associated with?
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Shorter duration of labor, decreased need for anasthesia, decreased need to use oxytocin to facilitate labor, decreased rates of forceps delivery and C-Sections
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What is "nociception"?
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It is the sensory part of labor pain, or the painful stimulus
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Describe emotional response to labor pain among Hmong women.
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Hmong women labor in silence
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Why is there abdominal referred pain in first stage of labor?
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stimuli transmits to dorsal root ganglia in spinal chord and you get abdominal referred pain
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What is referred pain?
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Stimuli in one part of body perceived in occurring in adjacent part of body
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In second stage of labor, the labor pain from stretching of vagina is transmitted through ____________.
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Sacral Nerve Endings
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How is local pain impulse modulated?
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Counter Irritation - electrical stimuli or scratching itch
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_________ decreases labor pain. It has now emerged as a predictor of pain in 1st stages of labor. It influenced pain by __________%
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Confidence; 30
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