This opioid is considered “Gold Standard”

With over 2 Million cases per year in the US, this condition is quite prevalent.

______ is to “flight or flight” whereas
______ is to “rest and digest”

Palliative care focuses improving the patient’s _______ of life rather than ______ of life

Unrelieved acute post-traumatic and postoperative pain are risk factors for developing ________ pain

5 Basic principles of choosing an analgesic

Both Duloxetine and pregablin are approved to treat neuroatphic pain associated with this condition

These are the 4 components that make up the functional unit of the nervous system

Routine care, General In-Patient care, Continuous care, Respite care. Of the above, indicate how many falls under Hospice Care

This type of analgesia is provide longer duration of effective analgesia in the perioperative and can be administered before or after surgery

Although Visceral and Somatic pain are nociceptive pain. But Visceral pain responds to _______ whereas Somatic (nociceptive) pain responds to ________

Gabapentin, Pre-gabalin, Lidocaine patch, and Capsaicin have been FDA approved to treat neuropathic pain in this condition

These fields are found more densely as you travel more distal from the body

In the third phase of Hospice care, hospices are required to provide bereavement services for at least this many months to all families/friends of patients who have died under hospice care.

1) Blocking transmission to the spinal cord
2) Preventing wind-up
3) Modifying pain processes withiin the spinal cord and brain

Are these goals of Pre-emptive analgesia vs. Preventive analgesia?

Administer with food; beware of GI pain and bleeding; renal impairment – these are common concern when taking this class of drug?

What are the 4 physiological steps in Pain Perception?

Between A-beta, A-delta, and C fibers, which fiber is the fastest

For a patient to be eligible to receive and remain on hospice care, the referring/certifying physician must state that in their best medical judgment that: “with the usual course of their illness, the patient is likely to die within ___ months

Between NSAIDS, COX-2 inhibitors, and PCA, only one of these treatment should be consider for acute pain in elderly

Due to reduced renal function and susceptibility to CNS adverse effects, “start low/go slow” is the best approach when treating this group of patients

This medication is FDA approved to treat neuropathic pain in Trigeminal Neuralgia (TGN)

With nociception, the “first pain” is mediated by this ____ fiber and “second pain” is mediated by this _______ fiber.

At the minimum, these 6 professionals must be included in a hospice Interdisciplinary team

By blocking the transmission of signals through nerves in or near the spinal cord, the injection of local anesthetics can cause both a lost in _________ and _________?