reading 2

Question 1

What is the title of reading 2?

Answer 1

The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises

Question 2

Who is the first and last author of the paper? year?

Answer 2

Raja, Vader
2020

Question 3

What organization’s definition of pain is being revised?

Answer 3

International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

Question 4

Why was the IASP pain definition re-evaluated?

Answer 4

Advances in understanding of pain mechanisms prompted re-examination of the old definition

Question 5

What was the original IASP definition of pain (pre-revision)?

Answer 5

An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage

Question 6

Who formed the task force to revise the definition?

Answer 6

A 14-member multinational Presidential Task Force with clinical and basic science expertise

Question 7

What key change was made to the pain definition?

Answer 7

Added wording “or resembling that associated with” actual or potential tissue damage

Question 8

What does the revised definition emphasize about pain?

Answer 8

Pain can be unpleasant and emotional even when it resembles pain without clear tissue damage