NHA CCMA Exam Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
CC - Answer️️ -Chief Complaint
Segment - Answer️️ -Line between two waveforms
P Wave - Answer️️ -Arterial Depolarization
How many 1mm boxes are in a 6 second rhythm strip? - Answer️️ -30 one
millimeter boxes
The SA node repres...
How many 1mm boxes are in a 6 second rhythm strip? - Answer✔️✔️-30 one
millimeter boxes
The SA node represents which waveform on the EKG? - Answer✔️✔️-Only
the P wave
What is the reading you can get from the RR interval? - Answer✔️✔️-
Ventricular Pulse
What is the primary stage of Hemolisis? - Answer✔️✔️-Vascular phase and
platelet phase together
What is electrophoresis? - Answer✔️✔️-Analyzation of the chemical
components of blood, e.g. hemoglobin serum, urin, cerebrospinal fluid
based on electrical charge.
Positive testing for occult blood in a stool sample turn which color? -
Answer✔️✔️-Turns blue on a positive test for a occult blood in feces.
Injury to blood vessel that causes it to constrict, slowing the clod of blood -
Answer✔️✔️-Vascular phase of hemostasis
Preferred site for veinpuncture - Answer✔️✔️-Antecubital fossa
Test used to evaluate the intrinsic pathway and monitor heparin therapy -
Answer✔️✔️-APTT also known as PTT
Test used to evaluate the extrinsic pathway and also used to monitor
warfarin therapy - Answer✔️✔️-PT
Fibrinolysis - Answer✔️✔️-breakdown and removal of clot
Converts the temporary platelet plug into a stable fibrin clot - Answer✔️✔️-
coagulation phase
2nd choice vein for venipuncture and most often the only one palpatable in
an obese patient - Answer✔️✔️-cephalic vein
Antiseptics used in phlebotomy - Answer✔️✔️-70% isopropyl alcohol pads
most common, provolone- iodine for BC's and chlorhexidine gluconate for
patients that are allergic to betadine/iodine
Length of needle commonly used in venipuncture - Answer✔️✔️-1 inch (up
to 1.5")
Hemolysis - Answer✔️✔️-the rupture or destruction of red blood cells.
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