MEDICAL ASSISTANT COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔When drawing blood cultures, what is used to prep the skin? - ✔✔Provodone
✔✔What is the correct procedure for using provodone? - ✔✔start at the center, and in a
circular motion, move toward the outside.
✔✔The tourniquet is positioned where? - ✔✔3-4 inches above the anticubital space
✔✔What is possible if the tourniquet is left on for more than 1 minute? -
✔✔hemoconcentration
✔✔What is the fluid in unclotted blood called? - ✔✔plasma
✔✔What is the fluid in clotted blood called? - ✔✔serum
✔✔Which tubes are inverted 8-10 times? - ✔✔1. yellow
2. green
3. lavender
4. gray
✔✔Which tubes are inverted 3-4 times? - ✔✔light blue
✔✔Which tubes are inverted 5 times? - ✔✔red
✔✔Define the hub - ✔✔the point where the needle attaches to the syringe or the needle
holder
✔✔When are syringes used? - ✔✔when there is a concern that the strong vacuum in a
tube might collapse the vein
✔✔The heart acts as how many pumps? - ✔✔2
✔✔Each side of the heart has how many valves? - ✔✔2
✔✔What is the function of the pulmonary circulation? - ✔✔to carry deoxygenated blood
from the right ventricle to the lungs, and returns oxygenated blood to the left atrium.
✔✔What is the function of the systemic circulation? - ✔✔carries oxygenated blood from
the left ventricle throughout the body
✔✔What is the valve between the right atrium and ventricle? - ✔✔the tricuspid valve
, ✔✔what is another name for the tricuspid valve? - ✔✔right atrioventricular valve
✔✔what is the name of the valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery?
- ✔✔the pulmonic valve (semilunar valve)
✔✔How many valves are there are the on the left side of the heart - ✔✔2
✔✔what is the name of the valve between the left atrium and ventricle? - ✔✔the
bicuspid (mitral) valve
✔✔What's another name for the bicuspid valve? - ✔✔left bicuspid (atrioventricular)
valve
✔✔What is the name of the valve between the left ventricle and the aorta? - ✔✔aortic
(semilunar) valve
✔✔what is the name of the innermost layer of the heart - ✔✔endocardium
✔✔what is another name for the innermost layer of the heart? - ✔✔the endothelial layer
✔✔What is the mane of the middle, or muscular layer of the heart? - ✔✔Myocardium
✔✔What is the name of the outermost layer of the heart? - ✔✔Epicardium
✔✔What is found in the outermost layer of the heart? - ✔✔the coronary blood vessels.
✔✔What are the blood vessels of the body? - ✔✔1. aorta
2. arteries
3. arterioles
4. capillaries
5. venules
6. veins
7 superior/inferior vena cavae
✔✔Blood vessels are composed how how many layers - ✔✔3
✔✔What is the outermost layer oa a blood vessel called? - ✔✔Tunica adventitia
✔✔What is the middle layer of a blood vessel called? - ✔✔Tunica medial (aka tunica
muscularis)
✔✔Arterial vessels carries what type of blood - ✔✔oxygenated
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔When drawing blood cultures, what is used to prep the skin? - ✔✔Provodone
✔✔What is the correct procedure for using provodone? - ✔✔start at the center, and in a
circular motion, move toward the outside.
✔✔The tourniquet is positioned where? - ✔✔3-4 inches above the anticubital space
✔✔What is possible if the tourniquet is left on for more than 1 minute? -
✔✔hemoconcentration
✔✔What is the fluid in unclotted blood called? - ✔✔plasma
✔✔What is the fluid in clotted blood called? - ✔✔serum
✔✔Which tubes are inverted 8-10 times? - ✔✔1. yellow
2. green
3. lavender
4. gray
✔✔Which tubes are inverted 3-4 times? - ✔✔light blue
✔✔Which tubes are inverted 5 times? - ✔✔red
✔✔Define the hub - ✔✔the point where the needle attaches to the syringe or the needle
holder
✔✔When are syringes used? - ✔✔when there is a concern that the strong vacuum in a
tube might collapse the vein
✔✔The heart acts as how many pumps? - ✔✔2
✔✔Each side of the heart has how many valves? - ✔✔2
✔✔What is the function of the pulmonary circulation? - ✔✔to carry deoxygenated blood
from the right ventricle to the lungs, and returns oxygenated blood to the left atrium.
✔✔What is the function of the systemic circulation? - ✔✔carries oxygenated blood from
the left ventricle throughout the body
✔✔What is the valve between the right atrium and ventricle? - ✔✔the tricuspid valve
, ✔✔what is another name for the tricuspid valve? - ✔✔right atrioventricular valve
✔✔what is the name of the valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery?
- ✔✔the pulmonic valve (semilunar valve)
✔✔How many valves are there are the on the left side of the heart - ✔✔2
✔✔what is the name of the valve between the left atrium and ventricle? - ✔✔the
bicuspid (mitral) valve
✔✔What's another name for the bicuspid valve? - ✔✔left bicuspid (atrioventricular)
valve
✔✔What is the name of the valve between the left ventricle and the aorta? - ✔✔aortic
(semilunar) valve
✔✔what is the name of the innermost layer of the heart - ✔✔endocardium
✔✔what is another name for the innermost layer of the heart? - ✔✔the endothelial layer
✔✔What is the mane of the middle, or muscular layer of the heart? - ✔✔Myocardium
✔✔What is the name of the outermost layer of the heart? - ✔✔Epicardium
✔✔What is found in the outermost layer of the heart? - ✔✔the coronary blood vessels.
✔✔What are the blood vessels of the body? - ✔✔1. aorta
2. arteries
3. arterioles
4. capillaries
5. venules
6. veins
7 superior/inferior vena cavae
✔✔Blood vessels are composed how how many layers - ✔✔3
✔✔What is the outermost layer oa a blood vessel called? - ✔✔Tunica adventitia
✔✔What is the middle layer of a blood vessel called? - ✔✔Tunica medial (aka tunica
muscularis)
✔✔Arterial vessels carries what type of blood - ✔✔oxygenated
