NURS352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wolters Kluwer, Spinothalamic Tract, Nursing Assessment
20 Feb 2019
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Lasts less than 3 months or as long as it takes for normal healing to occur - could be that you have a bad injury that will be expected to last a few months: mild to severe. Generally you can identify a precipitating event or illness - can identify the cause/reason. Course of pain decreases her time and resolves as recovery occurs. Includes post op pain, labor pain, pain due to trauma. Treatment includes analgesics for symptom control and treatment the underlying cause (ie resetting a fracture or fixing a hemothorax: manifestation reflect sympathetic ns activation - increase hr, increase rr, increase bp. Pain control with eventual reduction or elimination is the treatment goal - treatment will reduce the sns manifestations. >3 month duration; may start as acute injury or event but continues past normal recovery time. Cause of pain may be of known or unknown etiology - this is frustrating.
