 | Elizabeth W. Bayley, Susan Allyn Turcke - 1992 - 604 pages
...be physiological or psychological as described in Table 14.1 D. PAIN ASSESSMENT 1. Pain defined a. "An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage" (1) b. "Whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever... | |
 | Ilana Eli - 1992 - 242 pages
...both".6 In 1979, the definition was changed to include aspects of the emotional experience involved — "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage"7 (author's emphasis). The latter definition recognizes and accepts... | |
 | David Woolfson, Dermot McCafferty - 1993 - 274 pages
...International Association for the Study of Pain has tried to establish a standard definition of pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage" (Merskey, 1986). Even with adults pain can be a difficult parameter... | |
 | Michael C. Roberts - 1993 - 412 pages
...International Association for the Study of Pain's Subcommittee on Taxonomy (1979), pain is best defined as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage" (p. 249). Thus, pain is essentially seen as a subjective experience,... | |
 | James C. Lin - 2005 - 256 pages
...Melzack, 2000]. The current definition of pain, according to International Association of Pain (IASP), is that pain is "An unpleasant sensory and emotional...associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage". Pain can also be described as nociceptive (arising from "physiological"... | |
 | David J. Bearison, Raymond K. Mulhern - 1994 - 264 pages
...& Schechter, 1990). Pain, as defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience...associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." Implicit in the sensation of pain is the process of transmission... | |
 | E.V. Cosmi, Gian Carlo Di Renzo - 1994 - 924 pages
...sensations. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as a subjective phenomenon: "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage...". It is therefore understandable that, in neonatal care, the evaluation and measurement of pain become... | |
 | Roger Thies - 1995 - 300 pages
...field sizes are largest D. receptive field sizes are smallest E. density of receptors is lowest PAIN PAIN is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience...associated with actual or potential tissue damage or perception of such damage. ACUTE pain is a complex constellation of unpleasant sensory, perceptual,... | |
 | Hartmut Derendorf, Guenther Hochhaus - 1995 - 502 pages
...Walker INTRODUCTION The definition of pain according to the International Association for the Study of Pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience...associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage" and ensures that the description of pain is always subjective.'... | |
 | Patricia Corcoran Buchsel, Marie Bakitas Whedon - 1995 - 530 pages
...define the problem? Pain has been defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage" (1). This is a good description of what we see, but it tells us... | |
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An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage'. 
