Why Is Debridement And/or Amputation Often Needed to Treat Necrotizing

question 25

Multiple Choice

Why is debridement and/or amputation often needed to treat necrotizing fascitiis?

• A) These procedures remove the toxins released by the causative organisms.
• B) These procedures remove infected tissue and thus the source of damaging bacterial toxins.
• C) S. pyogenes multiplies in dead tissue, using the breakdown products as nutrients.
• D) These procedures remove infected tissue and thus the source of damaging bacterial toxins AND the procedures remove the source of nutrients for multiplying bacteria.
• E) These procedures remove the source of nutrients for multiplying bacteria AND these procedures prevent the causative agent from releasing damaging toxins and enzymes.

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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.