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A 36-Year-Old Woman Was Preoperatively Admitted for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy with Operative

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A 36-year-old woman was preoperatively admitted for laparoscopic cholecystectomy with operative cholangiogram.She was then interviewed by her perioperative nurse in the preoperative intake lounge.The patient's weight on admission was 245 lb.After the assessment,the nurse returned to the operating room (OR) and modified the standard plan of care by instituting risk reduction strategies that were derived from information from the preoperative assessment.A good example of this action would best be described by:


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Binomial Distribution

a probability distribution describing the number of successes in a fixed number of independent Bernoulli trials, with a constant probability of success.

Bernoulli Experiment

A random experiment with exactly two possible outcomes, often termed success and failure.

Probability Density Function

A Probability Density Function (PDF) is a function that describes the relative likelihood for a continuous random variable to take on a given value.

Expected Value

A statistical measure that calculates the average outcome of a random variable after many repetitions of an experiment.

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