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WOUND PAIN [2 records]

Record 1 2024-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
CONT

Procedural pain is brief, intense pain that arises from diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive procedures. It lasts from seconds to hours.... One of the most common source of procedural pain is needle puncture associated with venipuncture, intravenous cannulation, parenteral drug administration, and lumbar puncture. Wound debridement and wound cleansing also can cause pain, as can many other procedures.

Key term(s)
  • procedure induced pain
  • procedure related pain

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Surgical Equipment
  • Injections, Tubing and Transfusions (Medicine)
  • Medical and Dental Services (Military)
DEF

A collapsible tube fitted with a hypodermic needle and containing a single dose of medicine.

CONT

Syrettes were another method of medicine delivery, commonly used in World War II by the soldiers themselves. They were single-use, single-dose capsules of morphine with a needle on the end, supplied in soldier's medical kits to blunt the pain of a wound when medics were not readily available.

OBS

syrette: originally a trademark name that is now used as a common noun.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement médico-chirurgical
  • Injections, tubages et transfusions (Médecine)
  • Service de santé et service dentaire (Militaire)
OBS

syrette : initialement une marque de commerce qui est passée dans l'usage comme un nom commun.

Spanish

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