Question

Pain is defined as a physical suffering/discomfort caused by illness or injury and is categorized as chronic or acute. Pain-tolerance varies from patient to patient, in fact health care providers may ask patients to describe their pain on a scale from 1 to 10 (with 10 being the worst possible pain).

For your initial post: Investigate and explain the difference between acute and chronic pain Create a patient-scenario that involves pain management. Make sure your scenario addresses the following:

Does your patient have acute or chronic pain?

Where in the body is your patient experiencing pain?

Is their pain due to illness or injury?

What level on the pain-scale do they report

Answer 1

Answer :

Difference between acute and chronic pain :

Acute pain :

* it occurs suddenly and it have short duration like hours to days .

* The cause also we can know clearly.

* Effects on the behavior we can find out easily.

* treatment also we can provide exactly because we know the cause.

* what ever the side effects from the drugs also can be tolerated.

Chronic pain :

* It occurs gradually and lasts or takes time to go more than 3-6 months, it will have long duration.

* we should not no exact cause of pain.

* effects on behavior to find out is difficult.

* multiple treatment modalities should need because we don't know exact cause.

* side effects due to drugs also more.

This is the difference between acute and chronic pain.

Patient scenario that involves the pain management :

* my patient have acute pain that is lasting with in hours.

* in tooth or tooth ache due to dental caries my patient is experiencing pain.

* the pain due to injury, the injury is damage to our body, here the damage of tooth leads to acute pain to the client.

* it is a moderate pain because client interfering with daily activities like sleeping adequately and unable to chew food.

* so score is 4-6 .

* so level of pain on scale is moderate, by client words.