PHAR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Paracetamol, Multiple Sclerosis, Vital Capacity
16 Dec 2015
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Associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Or described in terms of such damage. Cps states that 30% of canadians suffer from chronic (>3 months) pain at some point in their lives. 7% of all canadians are incapacitated by pain. Chronic pain is universal: perception of pain does not differ between ethnicities, but may be presented differently in different cultures. Pain becomes the focus of your life, affecting relationships. Last less than 6 months and subsides once the healing process has finished, easily controlled with prescription drugs. The phenomena where acute pain persists and becomes chronic pain. Involves complex processes and pathology, typically involves altered anatomy and neural pathways. Constant and prolonged, lasting from 6+ months to life. Can come from acute, unrelieved pain: multiple trauma, phantom limb after amputation, repeated back surgeries. Can come from neuromuscular disorders: fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis. Take-away: chronic pain can come from trauma. Increased heartrate, cardiac output, and myocardial oxygen consumption.
