While Assessing Patients for Complications During Recovery from Anesthesia, the Nurse

question 7

Multiple Choice

While assessing patients for complications during recovery from anesthesia, the nurse recognizes that the patient who is at the greatest risk for developing postoperative hypothermia is a

• A) 34-year-old who is having a repair of a knee cartilage under local anesthesia.
• B) 48-year-old trauma victim having repair of multiple injuries under general anesthesia.
• C) 62-year-old undergoing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy under general anesthesia.
• D) 68-year-old diabetic undergoing a great-toe amputation under local anesthesia.

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Definitions:

Sample Mean

The average value calculated from a sample of data points, used as an estimate of the population mean.

Sample Median

The middle value of a sample data set arranged in ascending or descending order, used as a measure of central tendency.

Bootstrapping

A statistical method that resamples a single dataset to create many simulated samples, used in assessing the precision of sample estimates.

Resamples

The practice of repeatedly drawing samples from a given dataset with the intention of estimating a population parameter.