Your Patient Has a P(A-A)O₂ of 200 Mm Hg While

question 56

Multiple Choice

Your patient has a P(A-a) O₂ of 200 mm Hg while breathing 100% O₂. What is the estimated percentage shunt?

• A) 5%
• B) 10%
• C) 20%
• D) 30%

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Definitions:

Standard Deviations

A measure that indicates the amount of variation or dispersion from the average in a set of data.

Geometric Mean

The nth root of the product of n numbers, used especially for sets of positive numbers.

Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean.

Variance

A measure of variability that describes the spread of a data set or distribution, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.