NHA certification study guide for CCMA certification exam.

Chief complaint CC Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct Answer: Temperature, pulse, respiration, and Blood pressure are all ___________ ___________. Normal oral temperature Correct Answer: 97.6F - 99.6F intermittent fever Correct Answer: Fever that alternates between elevated and normal or subnormal body temperatures. Remittent fever Correct Answer: fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly but never falls to the normal level. Continuous fever Correct Answer: A fever that remains constant above the baseline, does not fluctuate. 60-100 BPM Correct Answer: Normal pulse rate Respirations Correct Answer: Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account when measuring what? Systole Correct Answer: contraction of the heart Diastole Correct Answer: relaxation of the heart Anthropometric measurements Correct 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 Correct Answer: General appearance, state of nutrition, body habits, symmetry, pasture and gait, speech. palpation Correct Answer: to examine by touch Percussion Correct Answer: 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 Correct Answer: the act of listening to sounds arising within organs (as the lungs or heart) as an aid to diagnosis and treatmen