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Medical Assistant Certification Exam
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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. The Tri-Care fiscal year is form...
Extended care facility
Timed
October 1 to September 30
Biceps brachii
2. Insurance that is meant to offset medical expenses resulting form a catastrophic illness is called...
Sugar
hemiplegia
Air dry
Major medical
3. The electrode site should be...
Show respect for thei culture
Holder
Clean -smooth - and dry
Supiration
4. When the physician feels with fingers or hands to determine the physical characteristics oftissues or organs it is called...
Rectal
Palpitation
Leg
Respiration
5. Some clinical signs for head injury could be...
Cell
Subpoena
1-vomiting.2-headache.3-confusion.
Will
6. When performing a venipuncture -the tourniquet should be wrapped around the arm about three to four inches form where you are going to ..... for a vein.
Auscultation
Feel
Timed
EDTA added
7. A drug that produces sleed is called a...
Hypnotic
Deposit slip
Non compus mentis
small punctures in the dermis
8. Benefits that are made in the form of cash payments are known as....
kidney
Indemnities
Major medical
Caller's divers licence #
9. Neoplasm refers to...
Supiration
a septal defect
Quadriplegia
New growth
10. That which in natural and continous sequence -unbroken by any new independent cause - produces an event - and without wich the injury would not have occurred is called...
Plaintiff
AMA Code of Ethics
Proximate cause
Glucose tolerance test
11. What license must a physician have to dispense -prescribe -or administer controlled substances?
Narcotics
Stool sample
stethoscope
Pulmonay
12. To help classify bacteria into two groups;gram-positive and gram-negative is a special stain called...
Malpractice
gram stain
Nasogastric tube
Lithiotomy.
13. When you wash your hands you should stand.....
small punctures in the dermis
Pelvis
Blood
So your clothes do not touch the sink.
14. Which of the following is used to take an infant's rectal temperature?
HIPAA
Hematocrit.
Medicare
Security thermomether
15. Use your index finger when you......... for a vein
Palpate
Smaller
Physician
Assumption of risk
16. The abbreviation for below or low is...
Hypo
Skull
Percussion
Defamation
17. A system whereby large quantities of data can be accessed -searched -sorted -and arranged very rapidly by computer is called a............... system
small
Appetite suppressor
Sim's position
Database management
18. The major artery that supplies the thorax is called the........ artery
Backup
Intercostal
Cell
When cleaning up blood or body fluids
19. Inflammation of the nasal mucosa results in...
Rhinitis
an EPA
Erythrocyte sedimentation rates
Endorsement
20. ............ is the single most important sourse of HIV and HBV in the workplace.
Appendicitis
Res ipsa loquitur
Blood
Renal
21. The cephalic - medial cubital -and basilic veins are..................... used for venipuncture.
Respondeat superior
Primarily
Right
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
22. The patient with an infection may have...
Knee-chest
Coding
loss of appetite and fatigue 2-fever -nause -rash -and vomiting. 3- pain -redness or swelling.
Fee-for-service
23. 'HIV' means...
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Ophthalmoscope
stethoscope
Skin preparation
24. The risk of infection with HIV following one needle-stick exposure to blood form a patient known to be infected with HIV is approximately......
0.12
loss of appetite and fatigue 2-fever -nause -rash -and vomiting. 3- pain -redness or swelling.
Major medical
0.50%
25. 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...
Medical grievance
Mouth or the ostium uteri
fl or fld
Blood films
26. The medical term for tube feeding is...
Carotid
gavae
How easy the system is to operate
Hepatic
27. When the patient is breathing with only the upper part of the lugs this is refereed to as...
Invasion of privacy
Health maintenance organization
Shallow respiration
Clavicle
28. With vital signs -any abnormal measurement must be immediatly reported to the ....
Leg
Contracture
Physician
Forgery
29. The word element PHLEBO means...
Third
vein
Blood
Superficial
30. The abbreviation for toxic shock syndrome is...
TSS
Negligence
tinc
1-clean-voided speimen 2- mid-stream Specimen
31. An accumulation of air in the pleural cavity after the lungs collapse is known as...
Fee-for-service
pneumothorax
Color Coded
carbohydrate
32. The most important step in the performance of a venipuncture is...
Litigation
hemiplegia
1-clean-voided speimen 2- mid-stream Specimen
Positively identifying the patient
33. A unilateral paralysis that follows damage to the brain is called...
Forgery
Empathy
substances that have no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse
hemiplegia
34. A lancet is a small -sterile -needle like piece of metal used to make...
False imprisonment
small punctures in the dermis
Primarily
Cancer
35. The area between waves is referred to as...
Q wave
Intervals
Pertussis
small
36. 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...
condition of
Myocardial infarction
Veins pulsate
Hearth
37. The time established for filling law suits is...
Backup
treatment of angina pectoris
Statute of limitations
Palpate
38. 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
Hypertension
An infection
Ears
Admissions
39. hich of there lab tests monitos anticoagulation therapy?
PT and PTT
The medical hand wash
decongestant
Diastolic pressure
40. ........................ values are increased in infections and inflammatory disease.
Erythrocyte sedimentation rates
Human chrionic gonadotropin
Endorsement
Doctor
41. When doing a venipuncture th syringe or tube should be ....... the venipuncture site to prevent back-flow.
Tri-care
Wrist
Oxygen
Below
42. Awrong committed against another person or the person's property is a...
Glucose tolerance test
Erythrocyte sedimentation rates
1-catherer 2-cannula 3-tent
Tort
43. The medical term for a decrease in size or wasting is...
Distance between patient and test chart
gtt
Sinusitis
Atrophy
44. When Preparing a blood smear -the spreader slide must be made of...
Hearth
Defribillation
Knee-chest
Glass
45. What kind of environment do microorganisms grow best in?
Res judicata
14 to 20
Hypogastric region
Dark and warm
46. High blood pressure is referred to as
a septal defect
Hypertension
GI or G.I
CMS-1500
47. An instrument used for auditory and sensory perception is called the...
Auxilliary
Will
CC
Tunning fork
48. A skilled nursing facility for patients receiving specialized care after discharge form a hospital is called...
Abandonment
Extended care facility
Work in a circle to the periphery
Defamation
49. Certain types of cultures -such as deep wound cultures could contain anaerobic pathogens. which of the following conditions is required for their growth?
Absence of oxygen
Database management
Hypertension
Deposition
50. The combination of sensors or electrodes used for lead # 1 is...
A brush and dust pan
cut
Time limit
Left arm -right arm