Med/surg Chapter 9: Pain Management Define Pain. Is Pain Objective Or Subjective?:

This study source was downloaded by 100000865965430 from CourseHero.com on 06-10-2023 14:51:45 GMT -05:00https://www.coursehero.com/file/198393886/Med-Surg-Pain-Ch-9-Guided-Reading-Notesdocx/ Med/Surg Chapter 9: Pain ManagementDefine pain. Is pain objective or subjective?: -Pain: an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. -Highly personal and subjective experience.What is the difference between acute, chronic (persistent), and breakthrough pain? Give an example of each. -Acute pain involves tissue damage as a result of surgery, trauma, burn, or venipuncture, and is expected to have a relatively short duration and resolve with normal healing.-Chronic or persistent pain is subcategorized as being of cancer or noncancer origin and can persist throughout the course of a persons life. Examples of noncancer chronic pain include peripheral neuropathy from diabetes, back or neck pain after injury, and osteoarthritis pain from joint degeneration.-some patients with cancer have continuous chronic pain and also experience more intense acute exacerbations of pain periodically, which is called breakthrough painDescribe the difference between nociceptive and neuropathic pain and how sensory input is processed in each Nociceptive (physiologic) pain refers to the normal functioning of physiologic systems that leads to the perception of noxious stimuli (tissue injury) as being painfulNeuropathic (pathophysiologic)