Assuming That None of the Following Patients Has Any Neurologic

question 30

Multiple Choice

Assuming that none of the following patients has any neurologic deficits, which patient requires cervical spinal immobilization?

• A) A 19-year-old man who has a gunshot wound to the right thigh
• B) A 3-year-old girl who fell on the sidewalk while running and who has a bite injury to her tongue
• C) A 10-year-old male skateboarder who fell while skating down a hill and received abrasions to his hands, elbows, chest, and knees
• D) A 70-year-old woman involved in a moderate-speed, lateral-impact motor vehicle collision, who is complaining of left arm pain

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Definitions:

Critical Value

A threshold in hypothesis testing that defines the boundary beyond which the null hypothesis is rejected, based on the chosen significance level.

Regression Model

A statistical approach for estimating the relationships among variables.

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment or model that are manipulated to observe their effect on dependent variables.

Degrees Of Freedom

The quantity of independent values or measures that can be allocated to a statistical distribution.