Questions to prepare for national certification (AMT, NHA, AAMA).
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show | Height and weight
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What are vital signs? | show 🗑
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Schedule I Drugs | show 🗑
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Schedule II Drugs | show 🗑
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show | Limited dependence, potential for abuse
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show | Decreased chance for abuse, can be called in to pharmacy
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Schedule V Drugs | show 🗑
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show | Objective, visual illness indicators
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Symptoms | show 🗑
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show | Study of drugs, actions, dosages, and side effects
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show | Study of the action of drugs within the body based on administration, rate of absorption, duration of action, and elimination from the body
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show | Study of how drugs act on the body in specific cells, tissues, and organs
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PPE order of donning | show 🗑
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show | Gloves, goggles, gown, mask
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Normal adult heart rate | show 🗑
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Normal adult blood pressure | show 🗑
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show | 150/90 mm Hg
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Width of BP cuff? | show 🗑
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show | 90°
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Subcutaneous injection | show 🗑
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show | 15°
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show | Patient, medication, route, time, documentation, dose
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show | Plasma
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Most important antisepsis for MA? | show 🗑
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show | 98.6° F, 37° C
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Time to wait before retaking BP? | show 🗑
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show | Sterilization
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Phlebotomy order of draw | show 🗑
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Lavender tube additive | show 🗑
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Light blue tube additive | show 🗑
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show | Heparin
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What is used to clean a routine venipuncture site? | show 🗑
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Antecubital veins | show 🗑
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Maximum heel puncture depth | show 🗑
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show | Fistula
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show | Sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium
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Where to apply tourniquet? | show 🗑
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show | 2
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show | 1 minute
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show | 30°
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show | 10°
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show | Larger lumen, smaller needle
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What are CEUs? | show 🗑
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show | Electrocardiogram - Noninvasive test that records electrical activity of the heart
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V1 chest lead | show 🗑
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V2 chest lead | show 🗑
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show | Between V2 and V4
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V4 chest lead | show 🗑
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show | 5th intercostal space, left anterior axillary line
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V6 chest lead | show 🗑
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Grounding lead | show 🗑
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Limb leads | show 🗑
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show | Epicardium, myocardium, endocardium
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show | Kortokoff sounds - 1st is systolic, 5th is diastolic
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show | Systole
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show | Diastole
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Pacemaker of the heart | show 🗑
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Electrical conduction of the heart | show 🗑
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show | 5 liters
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The left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the | show 🗑
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Heart has potential energy for the next cardiac cycle | show 🗑
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Heart relaxes and gains energy to pump | show 🗑
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show | Time
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ECG vertical line represents | show 🗑
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ECG waves | show 🗑
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show | Line between waveforms
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Waveform | show 🗑
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Complex | show 🗑
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Interval | show 🗑
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show | Automaticity, conductivity, contractility, excitability
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show | Vena cava
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show | Right atrium
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show | Carry blood away from the heart
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Veins | show 🗑
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P wave | show 🗑
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QRS complex | show 🗑
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T wave | show 🗑
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show | 1/10th second
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show | 40-60 bpm
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show | 60-100 bpm
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show | Front of the body
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Posterior | show 🗑
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show | Side of the body
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Prone | show 🗑
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Supine | show 🗑
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Fowler's position | show 🗑
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Dorsal recumbent position | show 🗑
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show | Laying on left side with left arm and shoulder behind body, right leg and arm sharply flexed on table, left knee slightly flexed
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show | Laying on back with buttocks on the lower end of the table with feet in stirrups
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show | Autoclave
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Childhood immunizations | show 🗑
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show | Influenza, pneumococcal, herpes zoster, tetanus
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show | Child's BSA (body surface area) in m² x adult dose / 1.7 m²
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show | 10 minutes - hands, wrists, forearms
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show | Chief complaint
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Dx | show 🗑
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show | Treatment
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abx | show 🗑
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show | Prescription
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show | Biopsy
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show | Now, immediately
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show | Present illness
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show | Painful, bad, difficult
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show | No known allergies
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NKDA | show 🗑
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show | Range of motion
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PH | show 🗑
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show | Review of systems
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show | Family history
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show | Social history
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show | Complaining of
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prn | show 🗑
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DAW | show 🗑
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show | Label, give the following
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sl | show 🗑
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gt/gtt | show 🗑
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show | Incise, cut into
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-ectomy | show 🗑
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show | Crush, break
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-opsy | show 🗑
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-scope | show 🗑
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show | Condition of
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show | Inflammation
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show | Opening
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-ical | show 🗑
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HIPAA | show 🗑
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show | Permission given with knowledge of possible consequences
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Expressed consent | show 🗑
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Visual acuity chart | show 🗑
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show | Tuberculosis
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Normal blood glucose | show 🗑
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Normal hemoglobin | show 🗑
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Normal oxygen saturation | show 🗑
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Urine specimen collected to test for a UTI | show 🗑
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Best time to test urine Hcg levels | show 🗑
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Most important hand washing factors | show 🗑
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show | O negative
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show | Nosocomial infection
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How many 1 mm boxes in a 6 second rhythm strip? | show 🗑
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show | 21-22
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Best site for capillary puncture | show 🗑
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Why does the first drop of blood from a capillary puncture get wiped away? | show 🗑
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show | Lavender tubes, additive tubes, non-additive tubes
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Hypertension | show 🗑
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Hypotension | show 🗑
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Chronic bronchitis and emphysema | show 🗑
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Tachycardia | show 🗑
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Bradycardia | show 🗑
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show | Myocardial infarction (heart attack)
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show | Angina pectoris
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show | Heart murmur
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show | Heart palpitation
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show | Arteriosclerosis
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show | Pacemaker
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Test measuring blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing to se how the heart responds to stress - often performed on a treadmill | show 🗑
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show | Greenstick fracture
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Broken ends of bone do not pierce through skin | show 🗑
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Bone pierces through skin | show 🗑
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Bone is splintered or broken into many pieces | show 🗑
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show | Flexion
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show | Extension
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Movement toward midsection | show 🗑
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Movement of an extremity away from midline | show 🗑
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show | 19-25
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Total water in body weight | show 🗑
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Instrument used to test neurological reflexes | show 🗑
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Instrument used for auscultation of heart, lungs, and bowels | show 🗑
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show | Sphygmomanometer
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show | Ophthalmoscope
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show | Otoscope
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Basic two dimensional radiograph commonly performed in a physician's office | show 🗑
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show | CT scan
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Test using a magnetic field and nonionizing radiation to produce images of the body | show 🗑
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show | Ultrasound
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show | Listening to body regions with a stethoscope
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show | Passive movement of joints to assess extent of movement
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show | Use of hands and/or fingertips to assess/feel for positions and sizes of organs, masses, lumps, or other abnormalities; skin moisture/temperature, and joint flexibility
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show | Assessing density of body structures by tapping
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show | Distal to proximal
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show | 10 days
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What should the MA note when changing wound dressing? | show 🗑
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show | 12
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# of lumbar vertebrae | show 🗑
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# of cervical vertebrae | show 🗑
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Undesirable affect | show 🗑
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show | Allergic reaction
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Most serious heat emergency | show 🗑
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show | Using sterile technique
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Opening or separation of an incision site | show 🗑
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Open wound | show 🗑
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show | Assess responsiveness
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show | Chest compressions
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Clear wound drainage | show 🗑
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Bloody wound drainage | show 🗑
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Blood tinged wound drainage | show 🗑
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Grey, green, or yellow drainage | show 🗑
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show | Rapid, weak pulse and breathing; cold, pale skin
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Color blindness test | show 🗑
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show | Occult blood test
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show | Pap smear
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Position used for rectal exam | show 🗑
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show | Lithotomy position
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Instrument used for vaginal exam | show 🗑
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show | Fowler's position
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Low blood pressure that occurs when standing up from sitting or laying down | show 🗑
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show | Standing, sitting, supine
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show | Heat, liquid, gas
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Components of autoclave | show 🗑
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Instrument used to move instruments and supplies on a sterile field | show 🗑
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Instrument used to grasp blood vessels | show 🗑
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Scissors with blunt tip on bottom blade | show 🗑
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Knives of varying blades and sizes used for cutting, dissecting, and incising | show 🗑
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show | Forceps
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Instrument used for scraping | show 🗑
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Outer layers of skin removed from scraping | show 🗑
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show | Contusion
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Smooth cut made from surgery | show 🗑
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show | Laceration
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show | Puncture
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show | 10
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show | Audiometry
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Instrument used to measure volume and flow of air | show 🗑
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Medicine administered between cheek and gum | show 🗑
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show | Sublingual
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show | Transdermal
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Burn with only superficial damage | show 🗑
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show | Second degree burn
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Burn involving all skin layers and possibly some muscle and bone | show 🗑
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show | Hemorrhage
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Low blood sugar | show 🗑
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show | Hyperglycemia
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show | Seizures
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show | Syncope
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Skin makes up how much total body weight? | show 🗑
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Muscle most often used for IM injections | show 🗑
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Method of injection used to prevent irritation to subcutaneous tissues; skin is pulled to one side before injection and released after injection | show 🗑
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Temporary reduction of blood flow to the brain causing stroke-like symptoms | show 🗑
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Instrument used to test for auditory acuity and bone vibration | show 🗑
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ECG paper speed | show 🗑
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show | Artifacts
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show | Wandering baseline
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show | Asystole
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Heart beat that originates outside of the SA node | show 🗑
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show | Ventricular fibrillation
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Ventricular rate of 150-300 bpm | show 🗑
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show | Atrial fibrillation
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Contraction of ventricles that occurs early | show 🗑
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Atrial contraction that occurs early | show 🗑
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Atrial tachycardia that occurs and subsides suddenly | show 🗑
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show | Atrial flutter
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show | 1 mm x 1 mm; represents 0.1 mV vertical and 0.04 s horizontal
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Large block on ECG paper | show 🗑
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show | Number of complete complexes in strip x 10
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show | Number of large boxes between R waves / 300
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ECG 1500 rule | show 🗑
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Portable device that monitors heart rhythm continuously for 24-48 hours by electrodes attached to chest | show 🗑
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show | Electrophysiology
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show | Aneurysm
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show | Coronary artery disease (CAD)
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Heart fails to generate adequate blood output | show 🗑
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show | Thrombus
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Mass that enters the bloodstream | show 🗑
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show | Endocarditis
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show | Pericarditis
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show | Mitral valve stenosis
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Blood flow in the wrong direction | show 🗑
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Disease of the heart muscle | show 🗑
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Localized collection of blood | show 🗑
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Removal of a small section of tissue for examination | show 🗑
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show | Debridement
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Five types of bones | show 🗑
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show | Identify topic and purpose, assess patient's ability and needs, develop plan, implement plan, document, evaluate patient understanding, reevaluate on follow up
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Patient preparation for minor office surgery | show 🗑
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show | Diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus
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show | Measles, mumps, rubella
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show | Brain
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show | Spinal cord
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show | Lungs, heart, large blood vessels
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Abdominal cavity | show 🗑
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Pelvic cavity | show 🗑
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show | Papule
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Solid, elevated 1-2 cm lesion | show 🗑
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show | Pustule
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Flat, elevated lesion | show 🗑
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show | Osteoporosis
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show | Osteoarthritis
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Type of arthritis caused by excess uric acid in the joints | show 🗑
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show | Epistaxis
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show | Liver
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show | Spleen
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Organ that produces enzymes for digestion | show 🗑
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Organ that stores bile | show 🗑
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What is the function of lymph? | show 🗑
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show | Anemia
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Involuntary muscle or other movement by patient seen on ECG | show 🗑
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Destroying tissue by freezing | show 🗑
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Cutting and cauterization of skin and tissues using an electrical current | show 🗑
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show | Endoscopy
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Use of narrow beams for diagnostic and treatment applications | show 🗑
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Tube containing serum separator | show 🗑
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show | Light blue
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How much urine should be collected for a specimen? | show 🗑
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Needle gauge for intradermal injection | show 🗑
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How many lb in 1 kg? | show 🗑
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Body's ability to maintain normal state | show 🗑
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Room temperature urine specimens begin to deteriorate after | show 🗑
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show | pH, blood, glucose
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Components of urinalysis | show 🗑
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show | Erythrocytes, leukocytes, thrombocytes
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show | Neutrophils
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show | Basophils
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Essential component of hemoglobin | show 🗑
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Breakdown of food into usable units to provide growth and energy production | show 🗑
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show | Intravenous
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Age for baseline ECG | show 🗑
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show | Every 1-3 years
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show | 40 years (women)
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show | Nothing by mouth
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PO | show 🗑
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show | Every
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h | show 🗑
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ac | show 🗑
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pc | show 🗑
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qd | show 🗑
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show | Every other day
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show | Every hour
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bid | show 🗑
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tid | show 🗑
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show | Four times daily
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hs | show 🗑
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show | Every hour of sleep (bedtime)
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show | Follow up
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cxr | show 🗑
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d/c | show 🗑
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show | Black
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show | White
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show | Red
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show | Blue
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SOB | show 🗑
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-algia | show 🗑
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Nephr/o | show 🗑
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Hepat/o | show 🗑
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show | Heart
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Ot/o | show 🗑
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show | Eye
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show | Muscle
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show | Bone
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Gastr/o | show 🗑
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Hemat/o | show 🗑
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show | Lung
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show | Rib
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Cephal/o | show 🗑
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show | Intestines
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show | Uterus
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Oophor/o | show 🗑
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show | Fallopian tube
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Orchi/o | show 🗑
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Gravid/o | show 🗑
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show | Prostate
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Phleb/o | show 🗑
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Myring/o, tympan/o | show 🗑
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-emesis | show 🗑
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-pnea | show 🗑
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show | Condition of blood
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show | Hardening
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show | Puncture to remove fluid
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show | Surgical repair
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show | Instrument for reading
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-uria | show 🗑
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show | Destruction
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-rrhea | show 🗑
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MA administrative duties | show 🗑
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MA clinical duties | show 🗑
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show | Pneumonia
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Inflammation of the bronchioles | show 🗑
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show | Apnea
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show | Rhinorrhea
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show | Dysuria
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Kidney stones | show 🗑
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show | Cystitis
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Inflammation of the stomach | show 🗑
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Also known as acid reflux, condition that affects the lower esophageal sphincter | show 🗑
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Erosive area on stomach lining | show 🗑
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show | Appendicitis
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show | Diverticulitis
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Master gland that releases numerous hormones | show 🗑
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Gland that secretes thyroxine and triiodothyronine | show 🗑
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Glands that secrete corticosteroids | show 🗑
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show | Pineal gland
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show | Diabetes mellitus
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Excess production of thyroid hormones | show 🗑
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Underactive thyroid gland | show 🗑
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Demyelination of the central nervous system | show 🗑
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show | Epilepsy
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show | Cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
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show | Myopia
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Farsightedness | show 🗑
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show | Diplopia
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Crossed eyes | show 🗑
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show | Astigmatism
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show | Conjunctivitis
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Accumulation of excess intraocular aqueous humor | show 🗑
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show | Cataract
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Infection and inflammation of the middle ear | show 🗑
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Infection and inflammation of the outer ear | show 🗑
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Painful menstruation | show 🗑
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Absence of menstruation | show 🗑
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Bleeding in between menstrual cycles | show 🗑
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Increase in bleeding amount and duration | show 🗑
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show | Primigravida
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show | Multipara
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show | Ectopic pregnancy
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show | Hysterectomy
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show | Oophorectomy
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show | Salpingo-oophorectomy
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show | Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
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Yeast infection | show 🗑
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show | Leiomyomas
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show | Eclampsia
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show | Proteinuria
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show | Edema
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Miscarriage that occurs naturally | show 🗑
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Scraping of uterine lining | show 🗑
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Magnified direct inspection of the cervix to detect cancer or other abnormalities | show 🗑
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Test to screen for cervical cancer | show 🗑
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show | Vasectomy
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show | Orchiopexy
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show | Urethritis
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show | Pyelonephritis
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Gradual, progressive loss of kidney function resulting in insufficiency | show 🗑
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show | Hematuria
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show | Urinary tract infection (UTI)
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-rrhaphy | show 🗑
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show | Disease
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show | Paralysis
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show | Repair
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show | Recording
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show | Surgical creation of an opening
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Branch of medicine specializing in infants, children, and adolescents | show 🗑
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show | Gerontology
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Branch of medicine specializing in blood | show 🗑
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show | Nephrology
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Branch of medicine specializing in the ears, nose, and throat | show 🗑
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show | Gynecology
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Branch of medicine specializing in the eyes | show 🗑
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Branch of medicine specializing in cancer prevention and treatment | show 🗑
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show | Cardiology
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Branch of medicine specializing in the liver | show 🗑
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Branch of medicine specializing in the skin | show 🗑
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show | Gastroenterology
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show | Endocrinology
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show | Neurology
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Branch of medicine specializing in the lungs | show 🗑
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Branch of medicine specializing in the medical use of x-rays or other radiation | show 🗑
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show | Obstetrics
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show | Urology
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show | Rheumatology
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show | Psychiatry
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show | Phlebotomy
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show | Antecubital fossa
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Where to collect blood from an arm with an IV line? | show 🗑
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What does a general minor surgery tray contain? | show 🗑
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show | Towel clips, curved hemostat, forceps with teeth, thumb forceps, sutures, scissors, needle holder, gauze, and drapes
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show | Scissors, thumb forceps, and gauze
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What does a staple removal tray contain? | show 🗑
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Common antiseptic skin cleansing solution used for surgery | show 🗑
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show | 1:9 bleach solution
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Main federal agency charged with the enforcement of safety and health legislation | show 🗑
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show | Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)
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show | Joint Commission
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show | Chief complaint
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show | Medical history
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Medical history of the patient's biological family members | show 🗑
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show | Social history
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show | Review of systems
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show | Ask them to repeat back what you said (i.e. post surgery instructions, medications)
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Neurological test used to determine balance when the patient is standing erect with their eyes closed | show 🗑
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show | 5-6
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Imaginary plane dividing the body into equal right and left halves | show 🗑
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show | Transverse plane
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Imaginary plane dividing the body into front and back halves | show 🗑
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show | 1-1 1/2"
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show | 5/8-1/2"
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Intramuscular injection needle length | show 🗑
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show | Centrifuge
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|
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How long should urine be centrifuged? | show 🗑
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Normal urine color | show 🗑
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show | Sharps container
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|
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When is the best time to collect a sputum sample? | show 🗑
|
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What is the normal range for an HbA1c test? | show 🗑
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Procedure used to remove earwax (cerumen) | show 🗑
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Surgical removal of the gallbladder | show 🗑
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Surgical removal of the appendix | show 🗑
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show | Tonsillectomy
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|
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Surgical removal of a kidney | show 🗑
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What is a blood culture used to check for? | show 🗑
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What color does gram positive bacteria stain? | show 🗑
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show | A method of staining used to differentiate bacterial species into two large groups, gram positive and gram negative
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|
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show | 72 hours
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|
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show | Mid stream clean-catch
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|
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show | SOAP method
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|
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show | Subjective
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|
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Documents objective, repeatable, and traceable facts about the patient’s status | show 🗑
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show | Assessment
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|
||||
show | Plan
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|
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show | Double-booking
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|
||||
show | Cluster scheduling
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|
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Specific number of patients scheduled at the top of the hour | show 🗑
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Hour long scheduling blocks broken down into smaller increments, usually 10-15 minutes | show 🗑
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show | Time specific scheduling
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|
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show | Underbooking
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|
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Protection against losses from illness, injury, disability, and accidental death or dismemberment | show 🗑
|
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Insurance that covers only specific medical expenses | show 🗑
|
||||
Federal government program for those who qualify due to low income | show 🗑
|
||||
Federal government program for those over the age of 65 or with specific disabilities | show 🗑
|
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show | Prepaid health plans
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|
||||
Health insurance provided to a group, usually employees, which provides coverage in the form of a lump sum payment or periodic payments | show 🗑
|
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show | Deductible
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|
||||
Arrangement in which the insured pays a specified amount for various services and the health care provider pays the remainder; typically payed at time of appointment. | show 🗑
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Reimbursement is made to the provider based on a predetermined reimbursement leveL | show 🗑
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Medicare Part A | show 🗑
|
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Medicare Part B | show 🗑
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Medicare Part C | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Prescription drug plan
🗑
|
||||
Organization of hospitals and physicians who provide services to insurance company clients | show 🗑
|
||||
Prepaid medical service plan where patients must use contracted providers | show 🗑
|
||||
Covers most health care services for veterans, their dependents and survivors | show 🗑
|
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show | TRICARE
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|
||||
Codes used for reporting various diagnoses | show 🗑
|
||||
show | ICD-10-CM
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|
||||
show | Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
🗑
|
||||
What are the four stages of the infectious process? | show 🗑
|
||||
Organisms establish presence in the susceptible host | show 🗑
|
||||
Symptoms of infection begin to appear | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Acute illness
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|
||||
Damaged tissue begins healing and symptoms resolve | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the chain of infection? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Body attacks and destroys microorganisms and renovates tissue after injury, damage, or death
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|
||||
What are the five indications of local inflammation? | show 🗑
|
||||
What are the two indications of systemic inflammation? | show 🗑
|
||||
What are standard precautions? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Contact, droplet, airborne
🗑
|
||||
Wearing gloves, gown, and shoes, and designating equipment use for a single patient is using | show 🗑
|
||||
Wearing masks, face shields, and goggles is using | show 🗑
|
||||
Wearing a respirator is using | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Monitoring the surgical field to decrease patient risk
🗑
|
||||
show | Fire, electrical, radiation, and poison
🗑
|
||||
What temperature and time is used to sterilize instruments with dry heat? | show 🗑
|
||||
What temperature and time is used to sterilize instruments with steam in the autoclave? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 12-20 breaths per minute
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|
||||
show | Systolic 100-139, diastolic 60-79
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|
||||
Hypothermia is defined as a temperature below | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Shock, environment, exposure to elements, thyroid disorders
🗑
|
||||
show | 100.4° F
🗑
|
||||
show | Infection, stress, dehydration, exercise, environment, thyroid disorders
🗑
|
||||
show | Prepare and clean exam room and equipment, prepare patient by giving instructions, help with draping and gowning, and assisting the physician.
🗑
|
||||
Size of capillary puncture blade for adults | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 2.4 mm
🗑
|
||||
show | Urinalysis (dipstick and tablet reagent), occult blood, urine Hcg, blood glucose, ESR, Hgb, Hct, strep A, and ovulation testing
🗑
|
||||
What departments are used for blood testing? | show 🗑
|
||||
Invasive procedure performed to visually examine and take biopsies from the GI tract | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Bronchoscopy
🗑
|
||||
Small device used to assess blood oxygen concentration | show 🗑
|
||||
Insertion of a catheter into a patient's artery or vein so that dye and x-ray viewing can be used for diagnostic purposes | show 🗑
|
||||
Pounds to kilograms | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Kilograms x 2.2
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|
||||
What equipment is included on a crash cart? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Apply direct pressure to the area, apply new dressing and continue pressure when dressing is soaked with blood, elevate area above heart level
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|
||||
How do you treat first-degree burns? | show 🗑
|
||||
How do you treat second-degree burns? | show 🗑
|
||||
How do you treat third-degree burns? | show 🗑
|
||||
How do you help a choking patient? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Keep patient calm, warm, and quiet; monitor and record vitals, administer nitroglycerine per physician's order, apply oxygen, perform ECG, be prepared to perform CPR
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|
||||
show | Give a form of simple sugar (juice, crackers, candy), perform a finger-stick blood glucose test, give a form of protein (milk, meat, peanut butter) if level remains low
🗑
|
||||
show | Notify the physician and follow orders
🗑
|
||||
How do you treat seizures? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Assess ABCs, administer supplemental oxygen, position patient's extremities above heart level, closely monitor vitals, provide support, transfer to emergency services
🗑
|
||||
How do you treat syncope? | show 🗑
|
||||
Breaking down of organic matter | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Anabolism
🗑
|
||||
show | Metabolism
🗑
|
||||
show | Carbohydrates, fats, proteins, sugars, vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, water
🗑
|
||||
Deficiency of nutrients | show 🗑
|
||||
show | B, C
🗑
|
||||
Which vitamins are fat soluble? | show 🗑
|
||||
Toward the upper body region | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Inferior
🗑
|
||||
Front side of the body | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Posterior
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|
||||
Skin makes up how much of the body's weight? | show 🗑
|
||||
Common human phenomenon characterized by an intense fear or dread related to a known or unknown cause | show 🗑
|
||||
Relationship between a person and his or her environment that arises when he or she feels pressure or overwhelming feelings related to a situation, event, person, place, or thing | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Self-esteem
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|
||||
show | Erikson
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|
||||
At what age would a child develop autonomy vs. shame and doubt? | show 🗑
|
||||
At what age would a child develop identity vs. role confusion? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Piaget
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|
||||
show | Sensorimotor (birth-2 years), preoperational (2-6 years), concrete operational (7-11 years), formal operations (12-adult)
🗑
|
||||
Who developed the model for the five stages of grief? | show 🗑
|
||||
What are the five stages of grief? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Displacement
🗑
|
||||
What is the assignment of feelings or motivation to another person, place, or thing? | show 🗑
|
||||
What are learned external behaviors and internal thought processes that are used to decrease discomfort and pain? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Regression
🗑
|
||||
What are important communication skills for an MA? | show 🗑
|
||||
At most, how many times should the phone ring before answering? | show 🗑
|
||||
As an MA doing phone triage, how can you manage the physician's time? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Giving any information about the patient's diagnoses, test results, medications, or procedures
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|
||||
show | Malpractice
🗑
|
||||
Patient has been seen within 3-5 years, depending on the practice's policy | show 🗑
|
||||
Patient has not been seen within 3-5 years , depending on the practice's policy | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Closed patient file
🗑
|
||||
show | Shredding
🗑
|
||||
show | Alphabetic filing system
🗑
|
||||
Each patient is assigned a medical record number and the numbers are cross-references with an alphabetic (master) file | show 🗑
|
||||
Medical records are filed in coordination with number and/or letters and each letter, group of letters, number, or group of numbers is designated with a specific color | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The medical facility
🗑
|
||||
Annually updated manual of prescription drugs | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Documentation or charting
🗑
|
||||
show | Policy and Procedure Manual
🗑
|
||||
Drugs that prevent and treat infections | show 🗑
|
||||
Drugs that prevent vomiting | show 🗑
|
||||
Drugs that relieve pain without causing anesthesia | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Antibiotics
🗑
|
||||
Drugs that reduce pain and inflammation | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Intravenous (IV)
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|
||||
Drug applied to the skin | show 🗑
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