The Patient Was Experiencing Apnea During Sleep Caused by Repetitive

question 10

Multiple Choice

The patient was experiencing apnea during sleep caused by repetitive pharyngeal collapse.The physician,in order to diagnose her condition as OSA,ordered a(n)

• A)CPAP.
• B)ABGs.
• C)PFTs.
• D)PSG.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

Standard deviation is a measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the set differ from the mean.

Random Samples

A sample from a population that is chosen in such a way that every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, particularly mean, indicating the variability of an estimate from sample to sample.

Positively Skewed

A description of a distribution of data in which the tail on the right side of the histogram is longer than the left side, indicating that most values are clustered on the left.