CCMA CERTIFICATION STUDY GUIDE
Questions and Answers
1. The reason a patient called for help. Also, the patient's response
to questions such as "What's wrong?" or "What happened?"
Answer Chief complaint CC
2. Explains the chief complaint. A chronological description of the
development of the patient's present illness from the first sign or
symptom or from the previous encounter to the present.
Answer History of present illness HPI
3. Tempe
rature, pulse, respiration, and Blood pressure are all
.
Answer Vital Signs
4. 97.6F - 99.6F
Answer Normal oral temperature
5. Fever that alternates between elevated and normal or subnormal
body tem- peratures.
Answer intermittent fever
,6. fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly but never falls to
the normal level.
Answer Remittent fever
7. A fever that remains constant above the baseline, does not fluctuate.
Answer Continuous fever
8. Normal pulse rate
Answer 60-100 BPM
9. Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account when measuring
what?
Answer Res- pirations
10. contraction of the heart
Answer Systole
11. relaxation of the heart
Answer Diastole
12. Measurement of height, (length rather than height is used in
infants because they cannot stand.), weight, BMI, head
circumference in infants, waist to hip,
% of body fat.
, Answer Anthropometric measurements
13. General appearance, state of nutrition, body habits,
symmetry, pasture and gait, speech.
Answer Inspection
14. to examine by touch
Answer palpation
15. physical examination method of tapping over the body to
elicit vibrations and sounds to estimate the size, border, or fluid
content of a cavity such as the chest.
Answer Percussion
16. the act of listening to sounds arising within organs (as the
lungs or heart) as an aid to diagnosis and treatment.
Answer Ausculation
17. a government agency in the Department of Labor to
maintain a safe and healthy work environment
Answer OSHA
18. an emergency procedure for life support consisting of
artificial respiration and manual external cardiac compression
Questions and Answers
1. The reason a patient called for help. Also, the patient's response
to questions such as "What's wrong?" or "What happened?"
Answer Chief complaint CC
2. Explains the chief complaint. A chronological description of the
development of the patient's present illness from the first sign or
symptom or from the previous encounter to the present.
Answer History of present illness HPI
3. Tempe
rature, pulse, respiration, and Blood pressure are all
.
Answer Vital Signs
4. 97.6F - 99.6F
Answer Normal oral temperature
5. Fever that alternates between elevated and normal or subnormal
body tem- peratures.
Answer intermittent fever
,6. fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly but never falls to
the normal level.
Answer Remittent fever
7. A fever that remains constant above the baseline, does not fluctuate.
Answer Continuous fever
8. Normal pulse rate
Answer 60-100 BPM
9. Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account when measuring
what?
Answer Res- pirations
10. contraction of the heart
Answer Systole
11. relaxation of the heart
Answer Diastole
12. Measurement of height, (length rather than height is used in
infants because they cannot stand.), weight, BMI, head
circumference in infants, waist to hip,
% of body fat.
, Answer Anthropometric measurements
13. General appearance, state of nutrition, body habits,
symmetry, pasture and gait, speech.
Answer Inspection
14. to examine by touch
Answer palpation
15. physical examination method of tapping over the body to
elicit vibrations and sounds to estimate the size, border, or fluid
content of a cavity such as the chest.
Answer Percussion
16. the act of listening to sounds arising within organs (as the
lungs or heart) as an aid to diagnosis and treatment.
Answer Ausculation
17. a government agency in the Department of Labor to
maintain a safe and healthy work environment
Answer OSHA
18. an emergency procedure for life support consisting of
artificial respiration and manual external cardiac compression
