Clear or Amber Drainage from the Nose or Ears of a Patient

question 26

Multiple Choice

Clear or amber drainage from the nose or ears of a patient who has sustained blunt trauma may indicate

• A)epiglottitis.
• B)aspiration.
• C)basilar skull fracture.
• D)perforated tympanic membrane.
• E)retropharyngeal abscess.

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of all individual values from the mean of a population.

Sample Size

The number of observations or experimental units selected from a population for the purposes of statistical analysis.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variation of a set of values in a population, quantifying how much the values differ from the population mean.

Confidence Level

The probability that a parameter will fall between a pair of specified values, often used in the context of confidence intervals.