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| Sudden pain of short duration, associated with a tissue-damaging stimulus. |
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| A patient's loss of control over the use of a substance with a compulsive use of the substance despite harm. |
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| Hypersensitivity to light touch. |
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| Pain that emerges as the pain medication wears off. |
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| Persistent pain lasting longer than three months, generally associated with a prolonged disease process. |
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| A controlled state of depressed consciousness or unconsciousness in which the child may experience partial or complete loss of protective reflexes. |
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| The ability to focus attention on something other than pain, such as an activity, music, or a story. |
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| A method of delivering electrical stimulation to the skin, to compete with pain stimuli for transmission to the spinal cord; also known as transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). |
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| Endogenous opioids produced by the brain in response to painful stimuli that help inhibit pain impulses in the spinal cord and the brain. |
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| The amount of a drug, whether administered orally or parenterally, needed to produce the same analgesic effect. |
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| The modulation (change or inhibition) of pain perception due to the two-way control of nociceptive transmission within the spinal tracts that enable a competing nonpain impulse to be sent along the same pathways that pain transmission uses. |
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| Increased response to a pain stimulus because of peripheral sensitization. |
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| Use of a small machine that generates electric current to transport anesthetic into the skin. |
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| Sedation level when the child maintains protective reflexes, retains the ability to independently and continuously maintain a patent airway, and retains the ability to make an appropriate response to physical stimuli or verbal command, formerly called conscious sedation. |
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| One form of chronic pain initiated or caused by a primary lesion or dysfunction of the nervous system. |
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| Transmission of pain impulses. |
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| Free nerve endings at the site of tissue damage with the capacity to identify painful stimuli. |
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| nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) |
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| Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, used for the treatment of pain. |
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| Synthetic narcotic drugs used for the treatment of pain. |
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| A highly personal and subjective unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Pain exists when the patient says it does. |
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| The point at which the transmission of pain stimulus begins. |
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| Duration of time or intensity of pain a child will endure before demonstrating pain responses. |
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| patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) |
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| A method for administering an intravenous analgesic, such as morphine, using a computerized pump that the patient controls. |
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| The physiologic adaptation to an analgesic or sedative drug at the peripheral and central neurons. |
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| The extent to which the same score is obtained when an instrument or scale is used either by different persons or by the same person at different times. |
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| A medically controlled state of depressed consciousness (light to deep) used for painful diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and analgesia. |
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| An increased reaction to pain over time, or a reduced threshold for reaction to painful stimuli. |
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| An altered state of response to an opioid or other pain agent in which increasing amounts of the drug are needed to produce or maintain the same level of pain relief or sedation effect. |
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| A test's ability to measure the characteristics it is established to measure. |
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| The physical signs and symptoms that occur when a sedative or pain drug is stopped suddenly in a patient who is physically tolerant. |
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