THE DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO PAIN AND THE CARE THAT MUST BE TAKEN

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1592332230062

• Palavras-chave: Pain. Acute pain. Chronic pain.

• Keywords: Pain. Acute pain. Chronic pain.

• Abstract:

  Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, caused by injury or imminent risk of its development, and its pathophysiology consists of 4 main stages, which are signal transduction, conduction, transmission and perception, each with your particular action. Pain can be classified as acute or chronic, differing mainly in terms of onset, duration, etiology and association with the injury. There are certain more specific situations in which the patient feels pain, such as chest pain, abdominal pain, headache, back and neck pain. Each type of pain has its respective treatment with certain drugs according to the severity, which are decided individually for each case. The following study aims to present, describe and demonstrate the importance of clinical management of acute and chronic pain, differentiating them for better clinical therapy. This is an integrative literature review of a descriptive nature. Finally, the study concludes that there is a great need for health professionals to differentiate the types of pain and understand the changes that encompass this pain, in order to obtain a more punctual and effective management of clinical conditions.

• Número de páginas: 19