| A | B |
|---|
| morphine side effect | depressed respiration |
| Best assessment of pain | what patient tells you |
| assess non verbal cues | patients with depressed cognitive function |
| pain reception | requires an intact nervous system |
| Gate Control Theory | pain impulses controlled/regulated along the nervous system |
| pain intensity | location and characteristics of pain |
| pain quality | adjectives like burning,stabbing |
| pain narcotics work | by altering pain perception |
| older adults | altered pain sensation/perception |
| acute pain | frightened anxious patient; expects quick relief |
| chronic pain | affects activities of daily living |
| Wong-Baker faces scale | pain intensity scale for children |
| side effect of oral opiod medications | constipation |
| known as the fifth vital sign | pain |
| daily pain diary | document chronic pain pattern |
| antagonist to Morphine | narcan |
| placebo | medication or procedure that produces an effect not beacuse of its specific effect or properties but because of implied effect |
| transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation | TENS unit |
| watching footfall on TV | pain distraction |
