A Patient Was Assaulted and Sustained Various and Multiple Injuries

question 59

Multiple Choice

A patient was assaulted and sustained various and multiple injuries. Which injury does the EMT recognize as presenting the greatest risk for infection?

• A) Contusion to the chin
• B) Closed crush injury to the knee
• C) Abrasion to the right side of the face
• D) Hematoma to the left foot

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points around their mean value.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the calculation of a statistic, often necessary for assessing the significance of the statistic.

Student t Distribution

The Student t-distribution is a probability distribution used in statistics, especially in situations where the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them together and dividing by the count of numbers.