CCMA CERTIFICATION STUDY QUESTIONS WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS |VERIFIED
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CCMA CERTIFICATION
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CCMA CERTIFICATION
Chief complaint CC - ACCURATE ANSWERS 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 - ACCURATE ANSWERS Explains the chief complaint. A chronological description of the development of the ...
CCMA CERTIFICATION STUDY
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CCMA CERTIFICATION STUDY QUESTIONS WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE
ANSWERS |VERIFIED
Chief complaint CC - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 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 - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 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 - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Temperature, pulse,
respiration, and Blood pressure are all ___________ ___________.
,Normal oral temperature - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 97.6F - 99.6F
intermittent fever - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Fever that alternates
between elevated and normal or subnormal body temperatures.
Remittent fever - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ fever in which
temperature fluctuates greatly but never falls to the normal level.
Continuous fever - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A fever that remains
constant above the baseline, does not fluctuate.
60-100 BPM - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Normal pulse rate
Respirations - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Rate, rhythm, and depth are
taken into account when measuring what?
Systole - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ contraction of the heart
Diastole - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ relaxation of the heart
Anthropometric measurements - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
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 - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ General appearance, state of
nutrition, body habits, symmetry, pasture and gait, speech.
palpation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ to examine by touch
Percussion - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 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 - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ the act of listening to
sounds arising within organs (as the lungs or heart) as an aid to diagnosis
and treatment.
OSHA - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ a government agency in the
Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment
cardiopulmonary resuscitation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ an
emergency procedure for life support consisting of artificial respiration
and manual external cardiac compression
SHOCK - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ This is caused by inadequate
blood flow to the heart and in turn to the rest of the body.
Symptoms of shock - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Pale, cold, clammy
skin
rapid, weak pulse
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