NURS 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Postherpetic Neuralgia, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Tricyclic Antidepressant
23 Nov 2016
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Dosage where no additional analgesia is produced regardless of further dosage increase. Increasing dosage of a med produces progressively smaller effects. Areas on skin that are innervated primarily by single spinal cord segment. Dose of 1 analgesic whose pain-relieving effect is equivalent to that of another analgesic. Structured technique where p uses own imagination to deve sensory images that divert focus away from pain sensation and emphasize other sensory experiences and pleasant memory. Activation descending pathways that exert inhibitory/ facilitatory effects on transmission of pain. Caused by damage to nerve cells or changes in spinal cord processing. Activation of primary afferent nociceptors with peripheral terminals (free nerve endings) that respond differently to noxious (tissue-damaging) stimuli. Iasp unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual/potential tissue damage, or the experience described in terms of such damage. Recognition, definition, response to pain by individual experiencing the pain.
