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Medical Assistant Certification Exam

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Nitroglycerine is used for...






2. hen using a centrifuge - make sure equal weights are...






3. The use of ultrasound to produce a picture of the structure of the heart is called...






4. With vital signs -any abnormal measurement must be immediatly reported to the ....






5. A form to itemize deposits made to savings or checking accounts is called...






6. The primary anticoagulant additive EDTA removes calcium by forming insoluble or un-ionized calcium salts. It has an advantage of preventing platelet clumping and the formation of artifacts -therefore -good for the preparation of...






7. With vital signs - any abnormal measurement must be inmediately reported to the...






8. A patient receiving ambulatory care at a hospital or other health facility without being admitted as a bed patient is called an....






9. Aserious chronic disease of the liver is called...






10. The word element OSIS means...






11. The balance between the heat produced and the heat lost is the...






12. Inflammation of the gallbladder is called...






13. When anticoagulated blood is centrifuged...... goes to the bottom of the tube.






14. Responsibility of an employer for the acts of an employee is...






15. Infected Pressure sores on the skin are called...






16. Insurance plans that pay a physician's full charge if it does not exceed his normal charge or does not exceed the amount normally charged for the service is called...






17. In drug testing the............ regulates describe how evidence is to be collected and handled.






18. The presumtion or inference of negligence when an accident is otherise unable to be explained in terms of ordinary and known experience is called...






19. When collecting blood for a hematocrit test use a ...






20. Which is recorded as the systolic blood pressure?






21. An ECG tracing measures the amount of voltage and the .................it takes for the voltage to travel throughout the heart.






22. Rubber sleeves for a glucose tolerance test...... hours before or during the test - the patient should not eat -smoke -drink coffee or alcohol.






23. An impartial panel established to listen to and investigate patien's complaints about medical care or excessive is called a............. commitee






24. Physicians with a narcotics license are required to register on June 30 of each year with...






25. One of the vital functions of long bones is the formation of...






26. A drug that increases urinary output is called a...






27. The maxilla is located in the ...






28. All workers whose jobs involve participation in tasks - or activities with exposure to blood -or other body fluids to which universal precautions apply -should be vaccinated with................... vaccine.






29. The abbreviation for Papanicolaou smear iss...






30. The pubis is located in the ...






31. The Maximum time a tourniquet should be tied on the upper arm drawing blood is ...






32. It is........................ to deny treatment to an HIV infected patients






33. Which of these generally results form an act of carelessness - without an intent to harm?






34. The abbreviation for drops is...






35. What type of blood sample will be needed to perform a hemoglobin test?






36. The ability to see form another person's point of view is...






37. A drug that controls appetite is called an...






38. A drug that produces sleed is called a...






39. The point at wich air enters the respiratory tract is called the...






40. When a vector travels away form the positive electrode - a ........... deflectio results...






41. The major artery that supplies the kneww is called the...






42. Every medical facility is required by OSHA to have an ............... - which hall be made available to the Assistant Secretary and the Director OSHA upon request for examination and copying.






43. A CLIA waived pregnancy test is based on the detenction of which one of the following?






44. What type of blood sample is needed when performing a PKU?






45. Lating for 'he who acts through another acts for himself' is called...






46. An extrauterine pregnancy in which the fertilized ovum begins to develop outside the uterus is called...






47. Neoplasm refers to...






48. An obstruction of a coronary artery causing death of an area of the myocardium due to blockage of blood supply and oxygen supply is called...






49. The proccess of killing all microorganisms in a certain area is called...






50. Lack of physicl or mental fitness is known as...