A Nursing Student Asks How Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)work to Suppress

question 4

Multiple Choice

A nursing student asks how nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) work to suppress inflammation and reduce pain.The nurse will explain that NSAIDs

• A) exert direct actions to cause relaxation of smooth muscle.
• B) inhibit cyclooxygenase that is necessary for prostaglandin synthesis.
• C) interfere with neuronal pathways associated with prostaglandin action.
• D) suppress prostaglandin activity by blocking tissue receptor sites.

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Definitions:

Statistical Inference

The process of drawing conclusions about population properties based on a sample taken from the population.

Sample Proportion

The fraction or percentage of items in a sample that exhibit a particular trait or characteristic.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a dataset differ from the mean.

Approximately Normal

A distribution is said to be approximately normal if it closely follows a normal distribution, characterized by its bell-shaped curve.