A Client Arrives Unconscious in the Emergency Department in Respiratory

question 19

Multiple Choice

A client arrives unconscious in the Emergency Department in respiratory depression from an unknown drug overdose.To help diagnose the overdose, the client is given small doses of naloxone.The purpose of this treatment is:

• A)To help wake up the client to obtain the name of the drug.
• B)To prevent vomiting while the client is unconscious.
• C)To help diagnosis if the overdose was an opioid drug.
• D)To reduce the psychoactive effects of the drug overdose.

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Definitions:

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true, often denoted by alpha, and used as a threshold to interpret the p-value in hypothesis testing.

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample data that is believed to contain the true population parameter with a certain level of confidence.

P-value

A statistical measure that helps in determining the significance of the results from a test, indicating the probability of observing results at least as extreme as those seen, under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true.

Chi-square Distribution

The Chi-square distribution is a probability distribution used in statistical significance tests, particularly suitable for categorical data.