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Homework

Introduction

Pain management is an important aspect of effective treatment of patients. In recent years, treating pain has become a hotbed issue due to the ongoing opioid crisis. This crisis has left many clinicians reluctant or afraid to address patients complains of pain. But, pain is a real physiologic response that often requires addressing in some for or another. Recent advances in pain treatment have revealed more effective strategies to treat pain, including non-pharmacologic methods, multi-modal pain control, and judicious and appropriate use of opiates.

Instructions

In this homework, you should use what you learned from this weeks High Yield Med Review videos and have read in the two attached papers to answer the following questions. Using this information, please answer the following short answer questions related to the treatment of pain. You may use outside resources if needed, but if you do make sure to correctly cite those references.

In your own words explain what acute pain is.

In your own words explain what chronic pain is.

A. In you own word explain what breakthrough pain is.

B. How is pain classified (giving examples of each type of pain and how it is manifested)?

C. What are the goals of pain management?

D. When assessing a paitent with pain complaints, what are some aspects to consider?

E. Opioids are considered the "gold standard" in pain treatments. What pharmcologic aspects (including pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics) do you think allowed them to earn this distinction? Do you agree or disagree?

F. What is multimodal pain control, and what are some examples of this type of therapy?

G. Give a hypothetical example of breakthrough pain and how you would treat it.

H. In chronic pain patients, would you expect their opiate requirements to change over time? If so, what would you expect (or not expect) and how would you manage it?