When Administering Oxygen to a Hypoxic Patient, What Signs Would

question 64

Multiple Choice

When administering oxygen to a hypoxic patient, what signs would seemingly indicate that the patient is improving?

• A) The heart rate drops from 120 to 80 beats per minute.
• B) The patient becomes more restful and wants to sleep.
• C) The blood pressure increases from 136/78 to 150/86 mmHg.
• D) The respirations slow from 24 to 22 per minute.

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of all values in an entire population, indicating how much individual data points deviate from the mean of the population.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter.

Confidence Interval

A gamut of values generated from sample statistics, which is likely to envelop the value of an unseen population parameter.

Standard Error

A metric that quantifies the spread of sample averages around the mean of the entire population.