NSG 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phantom Pain, Lorazepam, Biofeedback
18 Apr 2018
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Important to think of qualitative data wrt pain (not just objective) Girl with pain in foot (cid:523)cast on(cid:524); throbbing (cid:523)couldn"t articulate she was in pain; heart beat in foot) Pain is subjective and the response is individualized/learned. Early pain experiences can impact future responses. Growing evidence supports the occurrence of long-term negative effects from inadequately treated pediatric pain, especially in infants. Just because they don"t flinch doesn"t mean its not painful. Pain that"s not well managed -> chronic pain in future. Long term effects of untreated pain in infants. Might have impact; such as developing chronic pain in future. Want to manage pain well in early stages. Definition of pain (international association for the study of pain, iasp: pain is always unpleasant and subjective, pain is always an emotional experience. (cid:498)an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience which we primarily associate with tissue damage, or describe in terms of such damage, or both(cid:499)
