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Medical Assistant Certification Exam
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certifications
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health-sciences
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. When handling incoming mail the medical assistant should...
Attach the envelope to the correspondence
stethoscope
Draw a line through the error -insert the correct information -date and initial it.
1-vomiting.2-headache.3-confusion.
2. In the human body - the senses include all of the following EXCEPT...
Indemnities
Never
1-vomiting.2-headache.3-confusion.
Teeth
3. Aerobic bacteria prefer which of these environmental conditions to grow well?
Plaintiff
Remote
Oxygen
Adduction
4. The sebaceous glands -skin -hair -and nails make up the............ system
Clavicle
Dilate
Nervous
Remove the needle and tourniquet and lower patient's head and arms
5. An extrauterine pregnancy in which the fertilized ovum begins to develop outside the uterus is called...
0.20 sec
a septal defect
Ectopic
Echocardiography
6. The healthy adult excretes daily approximately.................. of urine.
decubitus ulcers
lab
Hemiplegia
1000 to 15000 milliliters
7. A drug that neutralizes acidity is called an...
Antacid
Nervous
Extension
Jugular
8. In the positioning of the electrodes - if the electrodes are placed too close together - the emplitude will be ............
small
Ophthalmoscope
Deposit slip
umbilical region
9. A coronary occlusion causing a condition that produces chest pain which may radiate to the left arm - shoulder -jaw or neck due to lack of blood supply to the hearth is called...
Distance between patient and test chart
Blood
Ethics
Angina pectoris
10. The medical term for the basic unit of body structute is...
Feel
Work in a circle to the periphery
Teeth
Cell
11. The medical term for the time when menstruation begins is...
Bagged or containerized at the location.
Breach of contract
Take all complaints seriously and ake through notes
Menarche
12. Contact with blood - or other body fluids to which universal precautions apply through percutaneous inoculation - or contact with an open wound - non-intact skin - or mocous membrane during the performance of normal duties' This definition(found in t
Pink
Brachial
Human Exposure
Extension
13. The medical term for loss of appetite is...
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Tri-care
unreliable
Anorexia
14. The most important step in the performance of a venipuncture is...
lancet
Capillary
Positively identifying the patient
Hospital Benefits
15. A doctor who agress to accept an insurance companies fee as the maximum amount to be collecte is called...
Participating physician
Blood
Tachypnea
PT and PTT
16. A 224-hr urine specimen should be...
Coordination of benefits
Sugar
urinary
chilled/refrigerated
17. A special device called a 'regulator' or 'flow meter' is necessary when using...
kidney
Oxygen
Will
Third
18. A notice of insurance claim or proff must be filed within a designated........... or it can be denied
Outdate or expiration date
Hot water
Time limit
Ledger
19. When anticoagulated blood is centrifuged....... goes to the tope of the tube.
hr or h
Common iliac
Plasma
1-ask if you may put the caller on hold. 2- wait for the caller to confirm they can wait. 3-obtain a return phone number.
20. The word element SUPER means...
Defendant
above
Skin preparation
Hepatic
21. 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...
Myocardial infarction
Knee
loss of appetite and fatigue 2-fever -nause -rash -and vomiting. 3- pain -redness or swelling.
Absence of oxygen
22. An organization that offers health insurance at a fixed monthly premium with little or no deductible and works through a primary care is called a ...
infective or infectious
Grammar
Health maintenance organization
Oxygen
23. To help classify bacteria into two groups;gram-positive and gram-negative is a special stain called...
Remove the needle and tourniquet and lower patient's head and arms
Larynx
gram stain
Angina pectoris
24. A legal statement of how an individual's property is to be distributed after death is...
A stethoscope and shygmomanometer
Will
condition of
Knee-chest
25. When performing any CLIA waived test it is important do to which one of the following?
Perform quality control testing with every new kit and routinely thereafter.
Q wave
Red
On top
26. The major vein that drains the upper arm is called the ...
October 1 to September 30
tab
Brachial
Mouth or the ostium uteri
27. The medical term for sugar in the urine iss...
2.4 mm
Hypogastric region
Hospital Benefits
glucosuria
28. All spills of blood-contaminated fluids should be promtly cleaned up using.............. approved germicide - or a 1:10 solution of household bleach.
emulsion
an EPA
Emancipated minor
Prone
29. ........................ values are increased in infections and inflammatory disease.
Carrier
Placebo
Erythrocyte sedimentation rates
Auscultation
30. A drug that controls appetite is called an...
Deposition
Draw a line through the error -insert the correct information -date and initial it.
Appetite suppressor
tranquilizer
31. The ulna is located in the ....
Sinusitis
Provider
Arm
The fourth intercostal spce right sternal border
32. The term for the technology that tells a computer what to do is known as the ...
Expert testimony
Human Exposure
gavae
Software
33. A bed patient in a hospital is called an....
Non compus mentis
Adduction
popliteal
Inpatient
34. Which of the following is used to take an infant's rectal temperature?
2.4 mm
Extension
Security thermomether
Emancipated minor
35. Under the Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982 - Peer Review Organizations are responsible for the review for appropriateness an necessity of putting a patient into the hospital by a process known as........ review
umbilical region
Accident
Hemorrhoids
Admissions
36. When you wash your hands you should stand.....
Muscular
Hepatitis B
So your clothes do not touch the sink.
Left arm -right arm
37. Use your index finger when you......... for a vein
Back
Tissue
Palpate
Cholecystitis
38. The clean-catch urine specmen is also called.....
Checkbook
Capillary
Serologic
1-clean-voided speimen 2- mid-stream Specimen
39. E/M codes are located in the ................ manual
CPT
1-clean-voided speimen 2- mid-stream Specimen
Co-payment
Narcotic
40. High blood pressure is referred to as
Tibia
Knee
Hypertension
1-Gently insert the needle a little deeper.2-Gently pull the needle or just a little.3-Remove the needle and tourniquet and prepare another site.
41. Lating for 'he who acts through another acts for himself' is called...
AD
Qui facit per alium facit per se
Palpate
Back
42. hich of there lab tests monitos anticoagulation therapy?
Keto-diastix
Physiology
Checkbook
PT and PTT
43. ................is the study of words and their relaionship to other words in a sentence.
1-catherer 2-cannula 3-tent
Grammar
Red Blood Cells
diuretic
44. Conduct -courtesy -and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical professionals are known as...
Plasma
1000 to 15000 milliliters
Medical etiquette
Crime
45. A system whereby large quantities of data can be accessed -searched -sorted -and arranged very rapidly by computer is called a............... system
Percussion
Database management
Backup
Rotation
46. As part of the office bookkeping procedures -the physician's bank statement should be reconciled with the....
Thirds face up
Apical-radial pulse
Accident
Checkbook
47. In the health care field the acronym HIPAA stands for...
Surgical removal
Health Insure Portability and Accountability Act
ALCOHOL
Narcotic
48. The word element STOMATO means
gram stain
Carotid
Sinusitis
Mouth or the ostium uteri
49. The abbreviation for hour iss...
inflammation
Lavage
Clavicle
hr or h
50. When you use an autoclave - fill the water reservoir with...
The use of a fetal transplantation for research
ALCOHOL
Microbiological Agents
PT and PTT