Certification Exam
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| show | they reflect the function of 3 body processes necessary for life
Body temp
respiration
heart function
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| What do vital signs include? | show 🗑
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| What is body body temperature? | show 🗑
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| show | maintains and regulates body temperature
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| show | a balance between heat production and heat loss in conjunction with each other
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| show | maintains and regulates body temperature
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| Normal temperture range for: Rectal Oral Axillary Tympanic Membrane | show 🗑
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| What does afebrile and febrile mean | show 🗑
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| show | fluctuating fever that returns to or below baseline then rises again
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| Remittent Fever | show 🗑
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| Continuous Fever | show 🗑
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| Which site for taking temperature is most common? Least common? | show 🗑
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| When taking a patients temperature which site would have a least accurate reading ? | show 🗑
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| show | infants and children less than 6 years old
Patients who had surgery of facial neck nose or mouth injury
Patients recieving oxygen
those with nasogastric tubes
patients with convulsive seizures
hemiplegic patients
patient with altered mental status
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| show | patients with heart disease
patients with diarrhea
patients with rectal disease or disorder
patients who has had rectal surgery
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| MA should wait 30 minutes before taking the patients temperature if? | show 🗑
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| show | the underarm should be dry and clean. the thermometer should be held in place for 5-10 minutes
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| Tympanic temperature is done on what kind of patient? Why | show 🗑
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| Tympanic temperatures should not be taken on the following patients. | show 🗑
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| Normal pulse rate for an adult? Normal heart rate for infants | show 🗑
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| Site most commonly used for taking the pulse? | show 🗑
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| show | apical pulse. taken over the apex of the heart with a stethoscope.
used on infants , children, and pt with irregular heart rate
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| show | fast heart rate of more than 100bpm
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| show | slow heart rate less than 60bpm
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| show | number of respiration per minute. One inspiration and one expiration counts as one respiration and should be counted for 60 seconds
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| Normal adult respiration rate? | show 🗑
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| show | temporary or complete absence of breathing
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| show | respiration rate of greater than 40 per minute.It is transient in newborns
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| bradypnea | show 🗑
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| respiratory rhythm | show 🗑
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| Orthopnea | show 🗑
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| Cheyne Stokes | show 🗑
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| show | amount of air that is inspired and expired during each respiration
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| Hypoventilation | show 🗑
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| show | abnormal increase in the depth and rate of breathing
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| show | increased amount of air entering the lungs
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| What is blood pressure? | show 🗑
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| show | wrong size BP cuff
arm is not positioned at heart level
cuff is not completely deflated before use
cuff deflated too fast
improper cuff placement
cuff is re-inflated during procedure
defective equipment
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| show | height, weight, bmi waist to hip ratio, percentage of body fat (adults)
head circumference , length, height, weight, weight for length (infants, children, and adolescents)
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| Inspection | show 🗑
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| show | use the sense of touch to determine the characteristics of an organ system
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| show | tapping or striking the body usually with fingers or small hammer to determine size and density of the underlying organ or tissue
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| show | listening to sounds produced by internal organs such as heart, lungs and abdomen
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| MA's role in the physical examination | show 🗑
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| show | pt. health history
the physical examination
laboratory test
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| show | Use: for most physical examinations
positioning: flat on back with legs extended. arms are placed above the head, along side the body or folded on the chest
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| Dorsal Recumbent | show 🗑
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| Fowlers | show 🗑
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| show | Use
positioning
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| Dorsal Lithotomy | show 🗑
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| show | Use
positioning
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| show | Use
positioning
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| show | Use
positioning
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| show | Use
positioning
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| show | thoracic cavity between the lungs and just behind the sternum (breast bone)
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| Atria | show 🗑
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| Ventricles | show 🗑
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| septum | show 🗑
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| endocardium | show 🗑
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| show | middle and contractile layer of the heart. made of striated muscle fibers interspersed with intercalated disks
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| epicardium | show 🗑
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| pericardium | show 🗑
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| right atrium | show 🗑
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| show | recieves blood via left and right pulmonary veins
that has been oxygenated by the lungs
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| show | receives oxygenated blood from the left atrium and pumps it to the body through the aorta
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| right ventricle | show 🗑
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| show | the only arteries in the body that carries deoxygenated blood
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| show | the only veins in the body that carry oxygenated blood
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| what is the aorta? | show 🗑
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| tricuspid valve | show 🗑
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| show | located between left atrium and left ventricle
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| show | prevent backflow of blood
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| aortic valve | show 🗑
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| show | located between right venticle and pulmonary trunk
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| What are murmurs ? | show 🗑
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| show | are named because of their location between the atria and ventricles
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| show | they have half moon shaped cusps
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| show | affects both atria and ventricles by increasing heart rate, conduction and irritability
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| show | affects the atria only by decreasing the heart rate, conduction and irritability
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| what is the heart influenced by? | show 🗑
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| Sinoatrial node (SA node) | show 🗑
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| show | located just above the tricuspid in the right atrium
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| What is the AV nodal delay? | show 🗑
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| bundle of his | show 🗑
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| purkinji fibers | show 🗑
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| Characteristics of cardiac cells | show 🗑
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| Automaticity | show 🗑
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| Excitability | show 🗑
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| show | the ability of all cardiac cells to receieve an electrical stimulus and transmit the stimulus to the other cardiac cells
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| show | the ability of the cardiac cells to shorten and cause cardiac muscle contraction in response to an electrical stimulus. can be enhanced with certain meds like dopamine,epinephrine and digitalis
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| show | when the heart contracts
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| show | when the heart relaxes
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| show | Right Leg (RL)
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| show | Lead I: left arm (+) right arm (-)
Lead II: left leg (+) right arm (-)
Lead III: left leg (+) left arm (-)
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| show | aVR: right arm
aVL: left arm
aVF: left leg
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| Unipolar precordial leads | show 🗑
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