CCMA Certification Exam 2024 Study Guide || Questions & Answers (Graded A+)

CCMA Certification Exam 2024 Study Guide || Questions & Answers (Graded A+) CCMA Certification Exam 2024 Study Guide || Questions & Answers (Graded A+) Chief complaint CC - ANSWER - 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 - ANSWER - 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 - ANSWER - Temperature, pulse, respiration, and Blood pressure are all ___________ ___________. Normal oral temperature - ANSWER - 97.6F - 99.6F intermittent fever - ANSWER - Fever that alternates between elevated and normal or subnormal body temperatures. Remittent fever - ANSWER - fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly but never falls to the normal level. Continuous fever - ANSWER - A fever that remains constant above the baseline, does not fluctuate. 60-100 BPM - ANSWER - Normal pulse rate Respirations - ANSWER - Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account when measuring what? Systole - ANSWER - contraction of the heart Diastole - ANSWER - relaxation of the heart Anthropometric measurements - ANSWER - 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 - ANSWER - General appearance, state of nutrition, body habits, symmetry, pasture and gait, speech. palpation - ANSWER - to examine by touch