2nd deck Flashcards
Post-operatively, the nurse notices an area of burn near the diathermy plate. What is the mechanism of injury?
High frequency current focused on small area
Which immunoglobulin is a dimer?
IgA
What is a Type 2 error?
The erroneous acceptance of the null hypothesis
Type 2 - false negative
Definition specificity
Ability to identify a true positive.
Specificity=true negatives/(true negative + false positives)
If a person does not have the disease how often will the test be negative (true negative rate)?
In other terms, if the test result for a highly specific test is positive you can be nearly certain that they actually have the disease.
Th-1 cytokines include
Interferon gamma and TNF alpha.
Th-1 is suppressed during pregnancy
Statistical heterogenicity means
Differences in the intervention effects in different studies
When undertaking a meta-analysis, which tests can be used to estimate heterogenicity
I-squared or Cochrane Q tests
The ultrasound frequency range typically used for transabdominal gynaecology scanning
2-5Mhz
Calculate PPV
PPV = true positives / all positives = 9/12 = 0.75
Diagnostic studies frequently use a receiver operating characteristic curve. What do the two axes of the curve represent?
True positive rate (y) and false positive rate (x)
What is given by the formula (1 – sensitivity) / (specificity) ?
Negative likihood ratio
an objective of a Phase 3 Clinical trial?
compare drug to others
an objective of a Phase 2 Clinical trial?
test effectiveness of drug
Calculate maternal mortality
The number of women who die while pregnant or during the first 42 days following termination of the pregnancy per 100,000 maternities (UK = women giving birth at or after 24 weeks) from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy, but not from accidental or incidental causes.
Need to minus twins and multiples from number of births the calculate the number of women who delivered.
The Kolmogorov Smirnov (K-S) test is
Used to compare a sample distribution to a reference distribution
What do the bottom and top of the rectangle represent on the box-and-whisker plot?
First and third quartile
Which cytokines are secreted by virally infected host cells and Stimulates uninfected neighbouring cells to synthesize antiviral proteins?
interferon gamma
Product of bilirubin metabolism responsible for the brown colour of faeces
Stercobilin
Movement of the bis-acromial diameter from the transverse to the antero-posterior diameter of the maternal pelvis
External rotation
internal rotation is what movement
Occurs at the level of the ischial spines as a result of the combined effect of uterine contractions and the tone & shape of the pelvic floor.
Typically, the head rotates 45° from the occipito-transverse to the occipito-anterior position.
This brings the suboccipito-bregmatic diameter in line with the wider diameter of the pelvic outlet – the antero-posterior diameter
The change in maternal cardiac out-put during labour
+ 40%
The change in maternal cardiac out-put associated with breast feeding
0%
The presenting diameter in a brow presentation
13.5cm
Suboccipito-bregmatic diameter
9.5cm
Submento-bregmatic diameter
9.5 cm
From the junction of the chin and neck (sub-mentum) to the centre of the bregma
The presenting diameter in face presentation when the head is completely extended