Analgesia

Unpleasant sensory or emotion experience

Pain that occurs after the initial tissue injury

Absence of pain in the presence of a painful stimulus

afferent nerve ending preferentially sensitive to noxious stimuli

The physiologic process of transduction, transmission and modulation of nerve signals generated by nocicepters

Pain resulting from a stimulus that isn't normally painful

Hyperexcitability of neurons in the spinal cord after repeated high-intensity nociceptive impulses

Pain from internal organs

Pain from skin, SQ muscles, bones and joints, and peritoneum

Pain felt in a body part other than that in which it originates

Pain which has an abrupt onset and a relatively short duration, which ends when the tissue is healed

Pain which is present after the tissue has healed, with a long duration

The use of 2 or more analgesic agents that differ in their mechanism of action to treat pain

Establishment of analgesia before the onset of painful stimuli which can prevent windup

This is the most effective analgesic family, commonly used in veterinary hospitals

This drug is a pure opioid agonist which other opioids are measured against. The "gold standard"

This opioid drug treats severe pain and has many similarities to morphine with fewer side effects (especially hypotension)

This potent opioid analgesic has a rapid onset and a short duration of action. Routes include IV, CRI, IM and transdermal

This drug is a partial mu agonist, is most effective in felines, and is now available in a drug lasting 24 hours

This mixed agonist/antagonist provides short analgesia but longer sedation.

This opioid agonist/antagonist can act to reverse opioid drugs at the mu receptor

Name 2 Opioid Reversal agents and the receptor at which they work

Oral synthetic opioid which inhibits reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine, contributing to analgesia

This family of drug modifies the inflammatory response

The primary side effect of the NSAID family of drugs is

This analgesic drug family should not be administered to patients who become hypotensive intra-operatively

Name several NSAIDs frequently prescribed in the veterinary office

This family of drugs is a reliable sedative in the preanesthetic time period, providing visceral and somatic analgesia

This family of analgesic drugs acts synergistically with opioids and improves intensity and duration of analgesia

This family of analgesic drugs disrupts neural transmission of information

Name 2 drugs which have NMDA receptor antagonist action providing analgesia

This drug was originally used as an anticonvulsant and acts by down-regulating calcium channels

This drug is used in humans to treat neuropathic and maladaptive pain

This tricyclic antidepressent can be used to treat neuropathic pain

There is speculation that this drug's inhibition of substance P may play a role in analgesia

This drug is used to treat osteosarcoma pain

This family of drugs treats pain by reducing inflammation and can be dangerous if administered with NSAID's