What Would a Serum PH of 7

question 29

Multiple Choice

What would a serum pH of 7.33 in a patient with kidney disease indicate?

• A)metabolic alkalosis
• B)metabolic acidosis
• C)respiratory alkalosis
• D)respiratory acidosis

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Definitions:

Sign Test

A non-parametric test used to evaluate the difference between paired samples, based on the direction of the differences between the pairs, not their magnitude.

T Test

A statistical test used to compare the means of two groups or the mean of one group with a known value, under the assumption of normally distributed data.

T Procedure

A statistical method used to test the mean of a population, especially useful when dealing with small sample sizes and unknown population standard deviations.

Outliers

Data points that significantly deviate from the other observations in a dataset, potentially indicating measurement error or an unusual event.