E tank
Caution: Paralyzing Agent
- 1,579
- 1,429
- 113
I still don't understand what value this has. For starters, acute somatic pain, visceral pain and neuropathic pain are different entities with different qualities, i.e. a broken arm and a wicked kidney stone trip different nociceptors, so unless it's apples to apples, it isn't going to be helpful IMO.
Furthermore, an increase of painful stimuli by a superimposed source (limb ischemia in this case) to spinal cord neurons responsible for pain detection, it would seem to me, would just intensify the overall frequency of pain impulses to the brain and really muddy the waters. That's pretty much the idea of what pain "wind up" is. You just end up with exponentially more pain than you started with.
Interesting conversation, I guess, but there's no getting creative in pre/inter-hospital analgesia.
Furthermore, an increase of painful stimuli by a superimposed source (limb ischemia in this case) to spinal cord neurons responsible for pain detection, it would seem to me, would just intensify the overall frequency of pain impulses to the brain and really muddy the waters. That's pretty much the idea of what pain "wind up" is. You just end up with exponentially more pain than you started with.
Interesting conversation, I guess, but there's no getting creative in pre/inter-hospital analgesia.