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Chief complaint CC ✔✔The reason a patient called for help. Also, the patient's response to
questions such as "What's wrong?" or "What happened?"
History of pr
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CCMA Certification Study Guide Latest
2023 Already Passed
Chief complaint CC ✔✔The reason a patient called for help. Also, the patient's response to
questions such as "What's wrong?" or "What happened?"
History of present illness HPI ✔✔Explains the chief complaint. A chronological description of
the development of the patient's present illness from the first sign or symptom or from the
previous encounter to the present.
Vital Signs ✔✔Temperature, pulse, respiration, and Blood pressure are all ___________
___________.
Normal oral temperature ✔✔97.6F - 99.6F
intermittent fever ✔✔Fever that alternates between elevated and normal or subnormal body
temperatures.
Remittent fever ✔✔fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly but never falls to the normal
level.
Continuous fever ✔✔A fever that remains constant above the baseline, does not fluctuate.
60-100 BPM ✔✔Normal pulse rate
Respirations ✔✔Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account when measuring what?
Systole ✔✔contraction of the heart
Diastole ✔✔relaxation of the heart
Anthropometric measurements ✔✔Measurement of height, (length rather than height is used in
infants because they cannot stand.), weight, BMI, head circumference in infants, waist to hip, %
of body fat.
Inspection ✔✔General appearance, state of nutrition, body habits, symmetry, pasture and gait,
speech.
palpation ✔✔to examine by touch
Percussion ✔✔physical examination method of tapping over the body to elicit vibrations and
sounds to estimate the size, border, or fluid content of a cavity such as the chest.
Ausculation ✔✔the act of listening to sounds arising within organs (as the lungs or heart) as an
aid to diagnosis and treatment.
OSHA ✔✔a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work
environment
cardiopulmonary resuscitation ✔✔an emergency procedure for life support consisting of
artificial respiration and manual external cardiac compression
SHOCK ✔✔This is caused by inadequate blood flow to the heart and in turn to the rest of the
body.
Symptoms of shock ✔✔Pale, cold, clammy skin
rapid, weak pulse
increased shallow breathing
expressionless face or staring eyes are all ____________ ___ _________.
First aid for Shock ✔✔maintain open airway for the victim, call for assistance, keep victim lying
down w/ head lower than rest of body; attempt to control bleeding or other cause of shock if
known; keep victim warm until help arrives
Portal of exit ✔✔Method in which a infectious ag
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