A 42 Year Old Is Diagnosed with Constrictive Pericarditis

question 41

Multiple Choice

A 42 year old is diagnosed with constrictive pericarditis.The nurse assesses the blood pressure for decreased cardiac output because of:

• A) pericardial effusions.
• B) fibrosis and calcification of the pericardial layers.
• C) cardiomyopathy.
• D) hemorrhage in the pericardial cavity.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are.

Normally Distributed

Describes a data distribution that follows a bell curve, where most observations cluster around the central peak and probabilities for values taper off equally on both sides.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by summing all the numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers.

Right-Skewed

A description of a distribution of data where the tail on the right side of the histogram is longer or fatter than the left side, indicating that the mean is greater than the median.