Your Patient Has a Chronic Respiratory Disorder and Vasoconstriction of Her

question 4

Multiple Choice

Your patient has a chronic respiratory disorder and vasoconstriction of her pulmonary vascular system. What is the chief control over this vasoconstriction?

• A) Low PAO₂
• B)Low PaO₂
• C)High PaCO₂
• D)High pH

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Definitions:

Ordinal Data

A type of data that represents categories with a meaningful order, but differences between categories are not necessarily consistent.

Nonparametric Test

Statistical tests that do not assume a particular distribution of the data, useful for ordinal or nominal data.

Ordinal Data

Data that can be categorized or ranked in order but does not quantitatively measure differences between categories.

Normally Distributed Populations

Populations that follow a normal distribution, characterized by a bell-shaped curve.