When the Parents of a Child Who Is on Life

question 22

Multiple Choice

When the parents of a child who is on life support ask what indicates brain death, the nurse responds that brain death occurs when:

• A) there have not been signals on the EKG.
• B) no deep tendon reflexes can be stimulated.
• C) there is an absence of EEG waves.
• D) there have been no voluntary respirations for 5 minutes.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

An interval estimate used to infer the reliability of a parameter estimate, such as a mean or proportion, within a population.

Population Mean

The average value of a population attribute.

Population Mean

The average of all the members of a population.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in a population, calculated as the square root of the variance.