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awywial

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The patient is admitted for chronic pain. He states that morphine sulfate (Morphine) has been used to relieve his pain, but recently he has been needing to use more of the medication to relieve pain.
 
  This patient's plan of care will have to incorporate interventions to deal with which of the following? a. Addiction
  b. Pseudoaddiction
  c. Drug tolerance
  d. Physical dependence

Question 2

To take a manual blood pressure, the nurse places the cuff of the _____________ around the patient's upper arm.
 
  Fill in the blank(s) with correct word



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Answer to Question 1

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Drug tolerance is defined as a state of adaptation in which exposure to a drug induces changes that result in diminution of one or more of the drug's effects over time. Addiction is defined as a primary, chronic, neurobiological disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors that influence its development and manifestations. It is characterized by behaviors that include one or more of the following: impaired control over drug use, compulsive use, continued use despite harm, and craving. Pseudoaddiction is a term that describes patient behavior that may occur when pain is undertreated. Patients with unrelieved pain may focus on obtaining medications, may clock watch, or otherwise may seem inappropriately drug seeking. Even such behaviors as illicit drug use and deception can occur in the patient's efforts to obtain relief. Pseudoaddiction can be distinguished from true addiction in that behaviors resolve when pain is effectively treated. Physical dependence is a state of adaptation that often includes tolerance and is manifested by a drug classspecific withdrawal syndrome that can be produced by abrupt cessation, rapid dose reduction, decreased blood level of the drug, and/or administration of an antagonist.

Answer to Question 2

sphygmomanometer
The most common technique of measuring blood pressure is auscultation using a sphygmomanometer and stethoscope.




awywial

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Reply 2 on: Jul 24, 2018
:D TYSM


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Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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