NSE 13A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Neuropathic Pain, Visceral Pain, Spinal Nerve
30 Nov 2017
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Assessment and management of pain, p. 6-7 and 17-30. Objectives: integrate relevant anatomy and physiology, outline subjective questions and incorporate any developmental and cultural considerations into your assessment, verbally report and document vital signs in an accurate, concise way on a graphic sheet and ipr. Identify factors that affect temperature and identify methods of taking a temperature and provide rationale for each. Highly complex and subjective experience that originates from the cns, Sources: based on origin, classified as nociceptive, neuropathic/both. Nociceptive pain: caused by tissue injury- well localized- described as aching or throbbing somatic or visceral. Somatic nociceptive pan: can be superficial/cutaneous derived from skin surface and subcutaneous tissues or deep, derived from joints, tendons, muscles or bone. Neuropathic pain: directly by a lesion or disease affecting somatosensory nervous system-can result from damage to the nerve pathway at any point along the nerve, from pnoiceptors to cortical neurons in the brain-ex.
