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Acute pain

  1. Acute pain is the normal, predicted physiological response to a noxious chemical, thermal or mechanical stimulus and typically is associated with invasive procedures, trauma and disease.
    It is generally time-limited.

    See also: pain

    Reference: Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States. Model Policy for the Use of Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Pain. Definitions. Internet. Accessed 19 October 2009. Available at http://www.fsmb.org/pdf/2004_grpol_Controlled_Substances.pdf

  2. Acute pain associations

    Acute pain may be associated with cancer syndromes, with cancer therapy, with diagnostic intervention, with invasive therapeutic intervention, with infection, with bone metastases, and with tumor in internal organs.
    All may be encountered in palliative care services. It is essential that the cause of each pain experienced by a patient is identified so that appropriate and specific treatment may be given.

    Reference: Foley C. The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. Third edition. London and New York. Oxford University Press. 2005. Pages 298-313.


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