Ccma Certification Study Guide Updated Actual Questions And Correct Answers

CCMA CERTIFICATION STUDY GUIDE UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
CCMA CERTIFICATION STUDY
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
Glucose Tolerance Test; Patient must have
for 12 hours prior tot he drawing.
Iced plasma specimens
1




Answer:
GUIDE UPDATED ACTUAL
ANSWERS
fasted and refrained from strenuous exercise

, Chilled specimens
2

Question:
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

Question:
History of present illness HPI
Answer:
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.

Question:
intermittent fever
Answer:
Fever that alternates between elevated and normal or subnormal body
temperatures.

Question:
Anthropometric measurements
Answer:
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.

Question:
Inspection
Answer:
General appearance, state of nutrition, body habits, symmetry, pasture and gait,
speech.

Question:
Percussion
Answer:
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.

Question:
Ausculation
Answer:
the act of listening to sounds arising within organs (as the lungs or heart) as an aid
to diagnosis and treatment.