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Medical Assistant Certification Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An ECG tracing measures the amount of voltage and the .................it takes for the voltage to travel throughout the heart.






2. At the location where you are going to feel for a vein -wrap the tourniquet around the arm approximately........ above the area.






3. A weakness in the walls of the muscle that allows underlying tissue to push through it is called .....






4. Hydrocortisone is a drug used to suppress...






5. The health worker is protected by law if it can be determined that he or she acted reasonable as compared with fellow workers.This is called...






6. The blood lancet is used for the collection of blood specimens by...






7. Tendons -joints -bones - and cartilages are in the......... system






8. The healthy adult excretes daily approximately.................. of urine.






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






10. An act that violates criminal law i called...






11. The tibia is located in the ....






12. How many hematocrit tubes should be collected form the patient?






13. Conversion of a dysrhythmia to a normal rhythm by applying electric shock to the chest is called....






14. The least reliable measurement of body temperature is....






15. 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.






16. Concent to treatment based on a full understanding of all possible risks of unproventable results of that treatment is called...






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






18. The second portion of the small intestine is called the...






19. Violation or omission of a legal or moral duty is called...






20. The branch of study of moral issues -questions - and problems arising in the practice of medicine and in biomedical research is called...






21. A drug that causes dilation of blood vessels is called a...






22. ............ is the single most important sourse of HIV and HBV in the workplace.






23. Performing routine maintenance on laboratory equipment is critical. The maintenance plan should inclde...






24. Body language -body posture -space and distance are all examples of.....






25. Contaminated laundryy shall be........ where it was soiled.






26. A method of charching whereby a physician presents a bill for each service render is called...






27. The lid to the centrifuge should be kept....... when in use.






28. When collecting blood by skin puncture on an infant - you should use a ....






29. Parcel post or......... class mail is used for bound printed matter -film - & sound recordings.






30. The process by which an object or area becomes unclean is ....






31. The number on the Employees withholding exemption certificate is...






32. When caring for patients with physical disabilities all of the following must be taken into consideration except...






33. Washing out the stomach through a nasogastric tube is called...






34. An accumulation of air in the pleural cavity after the lungs collapse is known as...






35. A previous injury -disease or physical condition that existed before the health insurance policy was ussued is called...






36. In the human body - the senses include all of the following EXCEPT...






37. Branches of the bundle branches - which transmit the impluses to the walls of the ventricles - causing the ventricles to the contract are called...






38. ............... testing should be made available by the employer to all workers who maybe concerned they have been infected with HIV through an occupational exposure.






39. An nstrument called a centrifuge.....






40. 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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41. The medical term for turning the palm backward is...






42. When you pull the second slide apart form the first slide -let them...






43. The clean-catch urine specmen is also called.....






44. A skilled nursing facility for patients receiving specialized care after discharge form a hospital is called...






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






46. The mandible bone is located in the






47. A statute that enforces private right and liabilities - as differentiated form criminal law is called a ....






48. The glucose tolerance test is a ...........-test






49. The radius is located in the ...






50. A terminal lethal dysrhythmia - a dying heart - is called...






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