Assessment of the patient with acute abdominal pain Karen DeLawder Chamberlain College of Nursing NR305: Health Assessment Spring 2011 Assessment of the patient with acute abdominal pain Introduction Assessment of the patient with acute abdominal pain is an article published in the Nursing Standard Journal in the June 2006 issue‚ written by Elaine Cole‚ Antonia Lynch‚ and Helen Cugnoni. This article gives an in depth look at common diagnosis associated with abdominal pain. With each diagnosis
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Chronic Pain vs. Acute Pain There are two types of pain: acute and chronic. Acute pain is a pain that comes on quickly‚ it can be severe‚ but it lasts a relatively short time as opposed to chronic pain. All chronic pain patients were once acute pain patients. Each pain presents different psychological profiles because chronic pain often carries an overlay of psychological distress which complicates diagnosis and treatment. Acute pain doesn’t last long and usually goes away as your body heals
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Establishing Acute Pain Service Many hospitals have employed an acute pain service for nearly a decade‚ but for many hospitals in the United States this still is a new idea. What we’re seeing is a new modality in treatment and the way we approach it. An acute pain service (APS) primarily manages pain after traumatic injury or surgery. The basic aspects of an APS include standardization of analgesic techniques‚ increased pain monitoring and assessment‚ and the ability to respond to inadequate or
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Tutor: Judith Hassan Chirwa 2012 Pain Short Answer Questions Compare and contrast acute and chronic pain. Pain is a human experience which can be uncomfortable‚ with the potential to be horrible. The proper definition of pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain‚ it states that pain is “an unpleasant sensory (shooting‚ aching or burning) and emotional (frightening‚ annoying or sickening) experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described
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Nursing Diagnosis 1. Acute pain R/T: inflammation and obstruction of the gallbladder AEB: patient verbalizes abdominal pain of 7/10‚ grimaces‚ rubs his stomach‚ BP 158/79‚ T990F 2. Deficient knowledge R/T: lack of knowledge about the importance of incentive spirometer AEB: patient says that he does not know how to use and needs to know more about its importance. 3. Risk for deficient fluid volume R/T: restricted intake 4. Risk for imbalanced nutrition less than body requirement R/T: impaired
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developing choronic post surgical pain: Preoperative risk factors associated with high incidence of chronic post surgical pain: • Preoperative pain‚ not localized to previous nonsurgical site‚ is strongly related to chronic post surgical pain (Gerbershagen‚ 2010). • Intensity and duration of preoperative pain (Katz‚ 2009). • Younger female is more prone to having postsurgical pain (Richardson‚ 2007). • Excessive fear of surgery has identified as a predictor for postsurgical pain (Peters‚ 2007)
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Assessment of pain is an important step to provide good pain control. There is one of the most problematic barriers to achieve good pain control pain‚ lack of evaluation. There are guidelines for what constitutes a recommendation proper pain assessment; however‚ many of the recommendations seem unrealistic in acute care practice. Nurses work with patients hospitalized with acute pain; they need to select the appropriate elements of the assessment of the current clinical situation. The most important
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into the ward and Mr Jones called out to me that he is in severe pain till now has all been eventful and educating at same time. Mr Jones was given morphine to manage his acute pain. Several preparations are available in the pre-operative period for pain management. These include intramuscular analgesics and opiates such as morphine (Hughes 2005). Morphine was used as a drug of choice in the management of Mr Jones acute pre operative pain. Though it has several advantages that are well suited for small
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Pain is defined as “whatever the experiencing person says it is‚ existing whenever he or she says it does” (173). With the information provided in the scenario of Mr. Clark and Mrs. Wong‚ this writer believes Mr. Clark is experiencing the greatest amount of post-operative pain. The numerical pain rating scale provides supporting data due to Mr. Clark rating his pain as 8/10 and Mrs. Wong as 3/10. In addition to the numerical pain scale‚ a focused interview should be conducted. A focused interview
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