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CCMA exam study guide, Questions with accurate answers, 100% Accurate. position used in exams where the patient lays on their back with legs extended: - ✔✔-horizontal recumbent position infe ... ction control method designed to prevent direct contact with blood or other body fluids is: - ✔✔- standard precautions primary purpose is to provide reliable data about a patients health status by ensuring accuracy of a test while detecting and eliminating error is: - ✔✔-quality control listening to the sounds produced while tapping the patient with fingers is called... - ✔✔-percussion an apical pulse is the method of choice for... - ✔✔-infants and young children which needle gauges are most commonly used for venipuncture? - ✔✔-21-22 after they are used, disposable syringes and needles, scalpel blades, and other sharp items should be placed in _______ containers for disposal - ✔✔-puncture-resistant disease state that results from the invasion and growth of microorganisms in the body is... - ✔✔-an infection least reliable measurement of body temperature is... - ✔✔-axillary most accurate and reliable measurement of body temperature is... - ✔✔-rectal first order of draw - ✔✔-blood cultures (yellow) second order of draw - ✔✔-sodium citrate tubes (light blue) third order of draw - ✔✔-serum or non-additive tube (red or red/gray) fourth order of draw - ✔✔-heparin tubes (green) fifth order of draw - ✔✔-EDTA tubes (lavender) sixth order of draw - ✔✔-oxalate/fluoride tubes (gray) generally a referral letter has a life span of 12 months. this life span starts on the day the letter is written. - ✔✔-false = starts from first consultation with the specialist to prevent the insured from receiving a duplicate payment for losses under more than one insurance policy is called... - ✔✔-coordination of benefits sum of money in an insurance policy, payable for covered services is called... - ✔✔-benefits to show empathy, the medical assistant could... - ✔✔-acknowledge the patient's feelings a person who is not an established patient walks into the doctor's office asking to be seen. the medical assistant should... - ✔✔-determine that the patient in not in an emergency condition and then offer the person the first available appointment blood pressure measured when the left ventricle of the heart contracts... - ✔✔-systolic pressure anatomic term meaning above or closer to the head; also called cranial... - ✔✔-superior under the skin - ✔✔-subcutaneous (SC) initial negative deflection produced by ventricular polarization... - ✔✔-Q wave first positive deflection produced by ventricular polarization is the _______ wave.... - ✔✔-R test used to measure breathing capacity... - ✔✔-spirometry combination of universal precautions and body substance isolation guidelines; used in hospital for the care of all patients... - ✔✔-standard precautions instrument that measures the air taken in and expelled from the lungs... - ✔✔-spirometer small bundle of heart muscle tissue in the superior wall of the right atrium that sets the rhythm (or pattern) of the heart's contractions; also called sinus node or pacemaker - ✔✔-sinoatrial node refers to the movement away from the isoelectric line in an EKG - ✔✔-waveform reduction of the number of microorganisms on an object or a surface to a fairly safe level - ✔✔- sanitization myocardial cell's ability to contract in response to a stimulus - ✔✔-contractility what part of the heart receives the deoxygenated blood from the body? - ✔✔-right atrium insertion of a needle or canula (small tube) into a vein for the purpose of withdrawing blood - ✔✔- phlebotomy regular pattern of irregular breathing rate - ✔✔-Cheyne-Stokes difficulty or inability to breathe unless in an upright position - ✔✔-orthopnea an infection contracted in a hospital - ✔✔-nosocomial infection who makes the guidelines for isolation precautions? - ✔✔-CDC [Show More]

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