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Pain in children can lead to serious physical and emotional consequences such as increased oxygen consumption and alterations in blood glucose metabolism.
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List the physiologic events of pain.
- Transduction
- Transmission
- Perception
- Modulation
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Peripheral nerve fibers extend from the spinal cord to various locations in and throughout the body's tissues, such as skin, joints, bones, and membranes covering the internal organs.
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Give definition of Nociceptors.
specialized receptors located at the end of the peripheral nerve fibers that become activated when thay are exposed to noxious stimuli.
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List forms of noxious stimuli
- mechanical
- chemical
- thermal
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What type of noxious stimuli is intense pressure to an area, a strong muscular contraction, or an extensive pressure due to muscular overstretching.
Mechanical stimuli
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Stimuli that involves the release of mediators , such as histamine, prostaglandins, leukotrienes or bradykinin, as a respone to tissue trauma, ischemia, or inflammation is considered which type of noxious stimuli?
chemical stimulation
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Thermal stimuli involves what?
extreme heat or cold
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Transduction
Nociceptor being activated by thermal stimuli
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Transmission of pain
electrical impulses are relayed along the peripheral nerves to the spinal cord and brain.
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