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- Normal adult respiratory rate
- Resting breathing of a healthy adult is 12 to 20 breaths per minute; rates above 20 indicate tachypnoea and below 12 indicate bradypnoea.
- Rule of Nines adult
- Body surface percentages used in burns: head 9, each arm 9, each leg 18, anterior trunk 18, posterior trunk 18, perineum 1, giving a total of 100 percent.
- Airborne precaution diseases
- Tuberculosis, measles and varicella require airborne precautions with a fitted N95 respirator and a negative-pressure room, because infectious particles remain suspended in air.
- Glasgow Coma Scale score
- Eye opening scores 1 to 4, verbal response 1 to 5, and motor response 1 to 6. The total ranges from 3 to 15, with 8 or less indicating severe impairment.
- Rapid-acting insulin onset
- Lispro and aspart begin lowering blood glucose within about 10 to 15 minutes, peak near one hour, and last three to five hours, so they are given just before meals.
- Oliguria threshold
- Urine output below 0.5 mL per kg per hour, or under 30 mL per hour in an adult, suggests reduced renal perfusion from hypovolaemia, obstruction or acute kidney injury.
- Contact precaution examples
- MRSA, scabies and Clostridioides difficile need contact precautions: gloves and gown for every entry, with hand hygiene using soap and water for C. difficile spores.
- Adult CPR compression ratio
- For one- or two-rescuer adult CPR, deliver 30 chest compressions at 100 to 120 per minute to a depth of 5 to 6 cm, then give 2 rescue breaths.
- Odisha capital and districts
- Bhubaneswar is the capital of Odisha, the state has 30 districts, and Odia is its official language, recognised as a classical language in 2014.
- Constitution adoption date
- The Constitution of India was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949 and came into force on 26 January 1950, now observed as Republic Day.
- Fundamental Rights location
- Fundamental Rights appear in Part III of the Constitution, Articles 12 to 35, and are enforceable through writs under Article 32 before the Supreme Court.
- Directive Principles location
- Directive Principles of State Policy are in Part IV, Articles 36 to 51. They are not enforceable in courts but guide legislation and policy making.
- Right to Education amendment
- The 86th Constitutional Amendment Act of 2002 inserted Article 21A, making free and compulsory education a fundamental right for children aged 6 to 14 years.
- WHO headquarters
- The World Health Organization is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It was established on 7 April 1948, the date observed annually as World Health Day.
- Fundamental Duties article
- Article 51A lists Fundamental Duties of citizens. They were added by the 42nd Amendment in 1976 on the recommendation of the Swaran Singh Committee.
- Chief Secretary role
- The Chief Secretary is the senior-most civil servant of a state, heading the administrative secretariat and coordinating between departments and the Chief Minister's office.
- Janani Suraksha Yojana
- A national scheme providing cash assistance to pregnant women, especially in rural and low-income groups, to promote institutional delivery and reduce maternal and neonatal deaths.
- Clock hand relative speed
- The minute hand gains 5.5 degrees per minute on the hour hand, since it moves 6 degrees per minute while the hour hand moves only 0.5 degrees.
- Ranking total formula
- When a person ranks nth from the left and mth from the right in a row, the total number of persons is n plus m minus 1.
- Syllogism validity rule
- A conclusion follows only if it is true in every possible diagram of the premises. A possibility that contradicts it makes the conclusion invalid.
- Alphabet position values
- Letters map A to 1 through Z to 26. The reverse value of a letter equals 27 minus its forward value, useful in coding and decoding questions.
- Alternating series rule
- When differences between consecutive terms are irregular, split the series into odd-positioned and even-positioned terms and test each subsequence for its own pattern.
- Blood relation diagram
- Use a tree with separate symbols for male and female, horizontal lines for marriage or siblings, and vertical lines for parent-child, then read the asked relation directly.
- Direction sense turns
- Fix north at the top. Each right turn rotates the facing 90 degrees clockwise and each left turn 90 degrees anticlockwise; use Pythagoras for net displacement.
- Subject-verb agreement rule
- The verb agrees with the subject, not with an intervening phrase. In 'The list of items is ready', the singular subject 'list' takes 'is'.
- Article usage with sounds
- Use 'a' before consonant sounds and 'an' before vowel sounds, judged by pronunciation: an hour, a university, an umbrella, a European country.
- Present perfect tense use
- Formed with has or have plus the past participle, it describes an action completed at an unspecified time or continuing relevance to the present moment.
- Past perfect tense use
- Formed with had plus the past participle, it marks the earlier of two past actions, as in 'She had left before the doctor arrived'.
- Prepositions of time rule
- Use 'in' for months, years and seasons, 'on' for days and dates, and 'at' for exact clock times and fixed expressions such as at noon.
- Indirect speech time shift
- When reporting speech, shift present to past and change time words: now becomes then, today becomes that day, tomorrow becomes the next day.
- Affect versus effect
- 'Affect' is usually a verb meaning to influence, while 'effect' is usually a noun meaning a result; the medicine affected her, and the effect was drowsiness.