A client with terminal cancer pain is scheduled for a cordotomy. What should the nurse instruct the client about this procedure?
1. Removes the nerve that is causing the pain
2. Severs the dorsal roots and relieves pain in the head and neck
3. Destroys the sympathetic nerves that are transmitting the pain.
4. Interrupts pain transmission through an incision into the spinal cord tracts
Answer: 4
1. Removing the nerve is a neurectomy.
2. A rhizotomy severs the dorsal spinal roots and relieves head, neck, and lung pain.
3. Sympathectomy destroys nerves involved in transmitting pain.
4. Cordotomy is an incision into tracts of the spinal cord and is used most for blocking abdominal or leg pain.
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