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CCMA Certification study guide exam with complete solutions
Chief complaint CC - Answer✔️✔️-The reason a patient called for help.
Also, the patient's response to questions such as "What's wrong?" or "What
happened?"
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.
Vital Signs - Answer✔️✔️-Temperature, pulse, respiration, and Blood
pressure are all ___________ ___________.
Normal oral temperature - Answer✔️✔️-97.6F - 99.6F
intermittent fever - Answer✔️✔️-Fever that alternates between elevated and
normal or subnormal body temperatures.
Remittent fever - Answer✔️✔️-fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly
but never falls to the normal level.
Continuous fever - Answer✔️✔️-A fever that remains constant above the
baseline, does not fluctuate.
60-100 BPM - Answer✔️✔️-Normal pulse rate
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Respirations - Answer✔️✔️-Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account
when measuring what?
Systole - Answer✔️✔️-contraction of the heart
Diastole - Answer✔️✔️-relaxation of the heart
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.
Inspection - Answer✔️✔️-General appearance, state of nutrition, body
habits, symmetry, pasture and gait, speech.
palpation - Answer✔️✔️-to examine by touch
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.
Ausculation - Answer✔️✔️-the act of listening to sounds arising within
organs (as the lungs or heart) as an aid to diagnosis and treatment.
OSHA - Answer✔️✔️-a government agency in the Department of Labor to
maintain a safe and healthy work environment
cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Answer✔️✔️-an emergency procedure for
life support consisting of artificial respiration and manual external cardiac
compression
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SHOCK - Answer✔️✔️-This is caused by inadequate blood flow to the heart
and in turn to the rest of the body.
Symptoms of shock - Answer✔️✔️-Pale, cold, clammy skin
rapid, weak pulse
increased shallow breathing
expressionless face or staring eyes are all ____________ ___ _________.
First aid for Shock - Answer✔️✔️-maintain open airway for the victim, call
for assistance, keep victim lying down w/ head lower than rest of body;
attempt to control bleeding or other cause of shock if known; keep victim
warm until help arrives
Portal of exit - Answer✔️✔️-Method in which a infectious agent leaves the
reservoir. Ex: contact with body fluids such as blood or saliva.
mode of transmission - Answer✔️✔️-contact, droplet, air, vehicles, or
vectorborne
Portal of entry - Answer✔️✔️-A pathway by which the causative agent
enters the host. The area in which a microorganism enters the body. They
may be cuts, lesions, injection sites, or natural body orifices.
Susceptible host - Answer✔️✔️-An individual who has little resistance to an
infectious agent.
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CCMA Certification study guide exam with complete solutions
Chief complaint CC - Answer✔️✔️-The reason a patient called for help.
Also, the patient's response to questions such as "What's wrong?" or "What
happened?"
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.
Vital Signs - Answer✔️✔️-Temperature, pulse, respiration, and Blood
pressure are all ___________ ___________.
Normal oral temperature - Answer✔️✔️-97.6F - 99.6F
intermittent fever - Answer✔️✔️-Fever that alternates between elevated and
normal or subnormal body temperatures.
Remittent fever - Answer✔️✔️-fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly
but never falls to the normal level.
Continuous fever - Answer✔️✔️-A fever that remains constant above the
baseline, does not fluctuate.
60-100 BPM - Answer✔️✔️-Normal pulse rate
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Respirations - Answer✔️✔️-Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account
when measuring what?
Systole - Answer✔️✔️-contraction of the heart
Diastole - Answer✔️✔️-relaxation of the heart
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.
Inspection - Answer✔️✔️-General appearance, state of nutrition, body
habits, symmetry, pasture and gait, speech.
palpation - Answer✔️✔️-to examine by touch
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.
Ausculation - Answer✔️✔️-the act of listening to sounds arising within
organs (as the lungs or heart) as an aid to diagnosis and treatment.
OSHA - Answer✔️✔️-a government agency in the Department of Labor to
maintain a safe and healthy work environment
cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Answer✔️✔️-an emergency procedure for
life support consisting of artificial respiration and manual external cardiac
compression
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SHOCK - Answer✔️✔️-This is caused by inadequate blood flow to the heart
and in turn to the rest of the body.
Symptoms of shock - Answer✔️✔️-Pale, cold, clammy skin
rapid, weak pulse
increased shallow breathing
expressionless face or staring eyes are all ____________ ___ _________.
First aid for Shock - Answer✔️✔️-maintain open airway for the victim, call
for assistance, keep victim lying down w/ head lower than rest of body;
attempt to control bleeding or other cause of shock if known; keep victim
warm until help arrives
Portal of exit - Answer✔️✔️-Method in which a infectious agent leaves the
reservoir. Ex: contact with body fluids such as blood or saliva.
mode of transmission - Answer✔️✔️-contact, droplet, air, vehicles, or
vectorborne
Portal of entry - Answer✔️✔️-A pathway by which the causative agent
enters the host. The area in which a microorganism enters the body. They
may be cuts, lesions, injection sites, or natural body orifices.
Susceptible host - Answer✔️✔️-An individual who has little resistance to an
infectious agent.
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