Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

question 5

Multiple Choice

Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
Mario is a 35-year-old male who has come into your ER with a laceration to his left hand. According to Mario, he was working on home renovations in his 1945 city bungalow, when an old board fell from a shelf and injured his hand. The laceration is a cut about 3 inches long, but fairly shallow. It appears that it was bleeding pretty heavily, but he has stopped the bleeding by holding pressure on it with an old t-shirt. He said it happened about an hour ago.
-Mario wants to know if there is any way he can reduce the edema,as he thinks there is no way it can be beneficial if it is so uncomfortable.What is not an appropriate response?

• A)"The swelling helps trap foreign microbes from getting into your main circulation."
• B)"The edema is a sign that your immune system is fighting the effects of your skin barrier being broken."
• C)"The influx of fluid into the area is helping to dilute toxins."
• D)"The edema is a result of your bones swelling from the influx of calcium-fighting toxins."

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Definitions:

Sample Information

Data collected from a subset of a larger population, used to make inferences about the population.

T-Distribution

A type of probability distribution that is symmetric and bell-shaped, but with heavier tails than a normal distribution, used especially in statistics for small sample sizes.

Normally Distributed

Refers to a type of probability distribution that is evenly balanced around the mean, indicating that values close to the mean occur more often than values further from the mean.

Population

The entire group of individuals or instances about whom the data is collected and which the statistical analysis is based upon.