MA 700 EVALUATION EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
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✔✔What is a fever? - ✔✔A body temperature greater than 100.4 Fahrenheit
✔✔What are 4 ways in which heat is lost from the body? - ✔✔Urine, feces, and in water
vapor during exhalation and perspiration.
✔✔How do diurnal variations affect the body temperature? - ✔✔During sleep the bodies
metabolism slows down as do muscle contractions
✔✔Describe continuous fever - ✔✔Fluctuates minimally but Always remains elevated.
✔✔Intermittent fever - ✔✔Body temperature alternately rises and falls at times. ( viral
infection)
✔✔What is the subsiding stage of a fever? - ✔✔Temperature return to normal.
✔✔What are the five sites using for taking body temperature? - ✔✔Mouth, a I'll am
rectum, ear, and forehead
✔✔How does temperature taken through the rectal compare with temperature taken
through orally? - ✔✔1 degree Fahrenheit higher
✔✔How does a temperature taken through axillary method compare with temperature
taken through orally? - ✔✔1 degree Fahrenheit lower.
✔✔How does the temperature obtained through the temporal site compare with oral and
rectal? - ✔✔Equivalent
✔✔How doers the temperature obtained through the temporal site compare with the
Axillary? - ✔✔1 degree Fahrenheit lower
✔✔What is the most common site for taking the pulse? - ✔✔Radial
✔✔Where is the apex of the of heart located? - ✔✔The fifth intercostal space between
the ribs at the junction of the left midclavicular line.
✔✔When is the brachial artery used as a pulse site? - ✔✔In infants during cardiac
arrest.
✔✔What two pulse sites cab be used to assess circulation to the foot? - ✔✔Posterior
tibial, Dorsalis Pedis
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What is a fever? - ✔✔A body temperature greater than 100.4 Fahrenheit
✔✔What are 4 ways in which heat is lost from the body? - ✔✔Urine, feces, and in water
vapor during exhalation and perspiration.
✔✔How do diurnal variations affect the body temperature? - ✔✔During sleep the bodies
metabolism slows down as do muscle contractions
✔✔Describe continuous fever - ✔✔Fluctuates minimally but Always remains elevated.
✔✔Intermittent fever - ✔✔Body temperature alternately rises and falls at times. ( viral
infection)
✔✔What is the subsiding stage of a fever? - ✔✔Temperature return to normal.
✔✔What are the five sites using for taking body temperature? - ✔✔Mouth, a I'll am
rectum, ear, and forehead
✔✔How does temperature taken through the rectal compare with temperature taken
through orally? - ✔✔1 degree Fahrenheit higher
✔✔How does a temperature taken through axillary method compare with temperature
taken through orally? - ✔✔1 degree Fahrenheit lower.
✔✔How does the temperature obtained through the temporal site compare with oral and
rectal? - ✔✔Equivalent
✔✔How doers the temperature obtained through the temporal site compare with the
Axillary? - ✔✔1 degree Fahrenheit lower
✔✔What is the most common site for taking the pulse? - ✔✔Radial
✔✔Where is the apex of the of heart located? - ✔✔The fifth intercostal space between
the ribs at the junction of the left midclavicular line.
✔✔When is the brachial artery used as a pulse site? - ✔✔In infants during cardiac
arrest.
✔✔What two pulse sites cab be used to assess circulation to the foot? - ✔✔Posterior
tibial, Dorsalis Pedis
