The Patient Is Brought to the Emergency Department After a Motor

question 27

Multiple Choice

The patient is brought to the emergency department after a motor vehicle accident and has lost a large volume of blood.The patient's blood type is AB.Which blood type may this patient safely receive in transfusion?

• A)Only type AB blood
• B)Only type O blood
• C)All blood types
• D)Only type A blood

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Definitions:

Population Parameters

Characteristics or measures that describe aspects of a population, such as its mean, variance, or standard deviation.

Wilcoxon Rank-sum Test

A non-parametric statistical test used to compare two independent samples to determine if they come from the same distribution.

Independent Samples

Two or more groups of samples that are not related or connected in any way in the context of an experiment or study.

Relative Frequency Distributions

A distribution where each value is expressed as a relative frequency or proportion of the total number of occurrences.