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Medical Assistant Certification Exam
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A statement given concerning some scientific -technical - or professional matter by an expert - such as a physical is called...
Negligence
Endorsement
Clean -smooth - and dry
Expert testimony
2. Conversion of a dysrhythmia to a normal rhythm by applying electric shock to the chest is called....
Vasodilator
Narcotics
Claim
Defribillation
3. The abbreviation for postprandial blood sugar is...
Move the cursor -right -left -up or down
Catastrophic
PPBS
1-clean-voided speimen 2- mid-stream Specimen
4. While ordering procedures may vay -generallly a type a tepe and RH are ordered on all pregnant women.
vein
pap smear
Prenatal
Uniform
5. A person who represents either party of an insurance claims is the...
Adjuster
Chain of custody
Explanation of benefits
hs
6. Referring to computers - the term 'use friendly' refers to...
Tachypnea
Holder
Medical etiquette
How easy the system is to operate
7. The most appropriate site for performing a capillary puncture is a healthy adult is the...
Great toe
Negative
Body temperature
liters per minute
8. The word element EMESIS means...
Vomiting
syr
Classification of environmental events -such as poisoning
Never
9. It is........................ to deny treatment to an HIV infected patients
Hepatitis B
Unethical
Color Coded
Clean technique
10. The medical term for tube feeding is...
Stertorous Respiration
Speak slowing -loudly -and in easy-to- understand language.
gavae
arteries
11. Concent to treatment based on a full understanding of all possible risks of unproventable results of that treatment is called...
Assumption of risk
Glass
punkinje fibers
Dark and warm
12. An nstrument called a centrifuge.....
Security thermomether
Specimen collection
auxillary
Separates the cellular and liquid portion of the blood
13. The brain -nerves -and spinal cord are in the ........ system
Nervous
Comprehensive
Unethical
1 MINUTE
14. A drug that causes the pupil of the eye to dilate is called a...
hr or h
Breach of duty
mydriatic
Usual - customary and reasonable
15. Medical research is often published in medical journals that are evaluated by members of the medical community through a process known as...
Holder
1 to 2 minutes
Social Security
Peer review
16. The faucet is turned off with...
a paper towel
fl or fld
Supiration
Arm
17. The medical term for straightening of a body part is...
1-vomiting.2-headache.3-confusion.
Pain
Non compus mentis
Extension
18. A skilled nursing facility for patients receiving specialized care after discharge form a hospital is called...
Extended care facility
Uniform
CMS-1500
False imprisonment
19. 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
Admissions
Not use alcohol to clean the site
Will
gram stain
20. When working with pstients form a culture different than your own - one should...
bedsore
Show respect for thei culture
Blood
Positively identifying the patient
21. The lining of the duodenum is composed of thousands of tiny finger-like projections called....
villi
Felony
Catastrophic
Drug Enforcement Agency
22. When performing any CLIA waived test it is important do to which one of the following?
carbohydrate
Perform quality control testing with every new kit and routinely thereafter.
Benefits
Q wave
23. Prior to answering an incoming call the medical assistant should...
UA
Irregular Respiration
Smile
Non-verbal communication
24. hen using a centrifuge - make sure equal weights are...
Coordination of benefits
a hernia
Opposite each other
gr
25. Diseases that can be communicated form one person to another are called.....
Wipe away
Contagious
Head
Occupational exposure
26. Inflammation of the gallbladder is called...
Cholecystitis
Hemorrhoids
Leg
Pulmonay
27. Listening to the sounds produced while tapping the patient with fingers is called...
An infection
Percussion
Trachea
Security thermomether
28. The medical term for expanding or opening wider is...
Head
Dilate
Breach
Dysuris
29. The term 'Universal Precautions' is an....
Fee-for-service
Worker's compensation
Skin preparation
Overall approach to infection control
30. A statute that enforces private right and liabilities - as differentiated form criminal law is called a ....
HIPAA
Carrier
Civil War
Back
31. The combination of sensors or electrodes used for lead # 1 is...
Left arm -right arm
Hearth
Drug Enforcement Agency
elix
32. 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...
Checkbook
gram stain
Usual - customary and reasonable
Medicare
33. Ventricular depolarizarion produces an electrical force or vector with 2 components(1) Magnitude of force - and 2-...
Direction or shape
Heat eith steam under pressure
Extension
0.12
34. The abbreviation for temperature -pulse -and respiration is
Clavicle
emulsion
TPR
Nervous
35. When applying leads -aply V1 lead.............
Brachial
AMA Code of Ethics
Coinsurance
The fourth intercostal spce right sternal border
36. The abbreviation for ointment is...
oint -ung
auxillary
Leg
Subpoena
37. Escape of fluid into the thoracic cavity is called...
Pleural effusion
Medicare
Statute of limitations
Muscular
38. A fraudulent signature is called...
Long
Invasion of privacy
Participating physician
Forgery
39. Branches of the bundle branches - which transmit the impluses to the walls of the ventricles - causing the ventricles to the contract are called...
punkinje fibers
Transdermal System
Fraud
Third
40. High blood pressure is referred to as
treatment of angina pectoris
Tachypnea
Rotation
Hypertension
41. Benefits that are made in the form of cash payments are known as....
October 1 to September 30
Flexion
Indemnities
Veins pulsate
42. The major vein that drains the upper arm is called the ...
Will
Left arm -right arm
Brachial
Cholecystitis
43. The abbreviation for both ears is...
IM
AU
14 to 20
P
44. How many hematocrit tubes should be collected form the patient?
Microbiological Agents
Head
At the left hand margin
2
45. A drug that decreases congestion is calleg a...
abduction
Nervous
Res ipsa loquitur
decongestant
46. In a visual acuity reading of 20/60 - what does the 20 represent?
Security thermomether
Distance between patient and test chart
Muscular
Caller's divers licence #
47. The metacarpals are located in the ...
Sinus arrest
Cell
2
Hand
48. A form of insurance paid by the employer providing cash benefitis to workers injured or disabled in the course of employment is called...
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49. The sphenoid bone is located in the
Outdate or expiration date
Head
Supiration
Sterilization
50. A person or institution that gives medical care is a...
Provider
Palpitation
a hernia
Closed