HTHSCI 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Afferent Nerve Fiber, Chronic Pain, Central Nervous System
29 Apr 2016
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Pain is positive -- it"s meant to make us notice that there is damage. However, once we notice the pain, pain is no longer advantageous. People who have had experience with pain will have a much higher pain tolerance than those who have never experienced pain. The patient"s beliefs about the implications of being in pain. Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Implies that the patient reports the experience. People with smaller vocabulary cannot describe the pain. Some measure of pain should be made at baseline (5th vital sign), then followed to assess the therapeutic effect of analgesia. Pain is what the patient says it is; it is the health care provider"s responsibility to treat the pain. 1-10 scale (0 being no pain, 10 being worst pain ever experienced) Helps client identify quantity or value to the amount of pain they have.
