When a Patient Has Assisted Cardiopulmonary Function but Has Permanently

question 15

Multiple Choice

When a patient has assisted cardiopulmonary function but has permanently lost function of the entire brain, that patient is

• A) Dead according to the whole-brain criterion
• B) Dead according to the higher-brain criterion
• C) Alive according to the cardiopulmonary criterion
• D) All of the above

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Random Variable

A variable whose possible values are numerical outcomes of a random phenomenon.

Standard Normal Variable

A normal random variable with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one; used as a basis for comparison with other normal distributions.

Probability

A numeric expression ranging from 0 to 1 that indicates how probable an event is to take place.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean and is calculated as the square root of the variance.