The Most Serious Complication of Lumbar Puncture in a Critically

question 37

Multiple Choice

The most serious complication of lumbar puncture in a critically ill patient is

• A) bacterial meningitis.
• B) dural tear.
• C) brainstem herniation.
• D) spinal cord trauma.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A metric that calculates the extent of spread or scatter among a collection of data points.

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of a statistic's probabilities, which results from analyzing a random sample.

Standard Deviation

A measure indicating the breadth of spread or variability in a series of values, showing how much the values differ from their mean.

Sample Mean

The average of a set of observations from a sample, representing an estimate of the population mean.