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AMCA PCT Exam Questions and Answers
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AMCA PCT Exam Questions andAnswers
A stroke - -A physician is required to report all of the following except?
-A misdemeanor - -A crime punishable by a fine or imprisonment for LESS
than a year is known as?
-Malpractice - -Professional Negligence is called?
-Confidentiality - -What is important for assistive personnel to keep in mind
when they go throughout their daily medical routine?
-When a court requests it by means of a subpoena - -What is the situation
when it is permissible to release information from a pt's records?
-When the patient signs a release - -Under what circumstance is it
permissible to release information from a pt's records?
-Sweat - -What body fluid is not infectious?
-medical asepsis - -Cleaning techniques are also referred as to?
-Disinfected - -Instruments that come into contact only with the pt's mucous
membranes should be?
-sanitized - -Instruments that touch ONLY healthy intact skin should be?
-A bio-hazard - -Anything that poses a risk to the human body or a living
organism is called what?
-A written schedule for cleaning - -OSHA standards require what?
-Universal Precautions - -Treating human blood as if it were infectious is
known as?
-Mainly used in hospitals - -Standard precautions are mainly used where?
-Distilled water - -What liquid is used in an autoclave to sterilize instruments
and supplies?
-Clients words - -Which of the following is one of the 6 C's of charting?
-0-0 - -What is the thickest suture size?
, -Supine - -What position is it called when the pt is laying flat on their back?
-Lithotomy - -What position is used when used for peritoneal and vaginal
examination?
-Proctological - -What position requires the examination table to be raised in
the middle with both ends down?
-Outpatient surgery - -Surgical procedures that require less than a day to
preform with no overnight stay for the patient is called?
-Obtaining and prescribing medications that are not expired - -What is not a
responsibility of a medical assistant in the physical preparation of the pt
except?
-Sims position - -What position is used for the examination of the rectum
when the pt lies on their left side slightly flexed?
-Rectal - -What site is the most accurate when taking a temperature?
-Radial - -The artery most commonly used for taking a pt's pulse is where?
-36.1 C - -You have taken a pt's temperature and recorded as 96.9 F. Later
the physician asks you to convert the measurement to Celsius. What is the
temp?
-Weight - -What is not considered a vital sign?
-Dyspnea - -What is the word for difficulty of breathing?
-30 seconds - -When a temperature is taken rectally, how long should it be
left in?
-Apnea - -The absence of respirations that last longer than 15 seconds is
called what?
-Knee - -Which of the following areas of the body is the site at which to
detect the popliteal pulse?
-Respiration rate - -What is included in a pt's vital signs?
-103.8 F - -What temperature is most likely to be fatal?
-Sublingual route - -What route is involved in administering a drug by
placing it under the pt's tongue and leaving it there until it dissolves?
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