NHA CCMA Certification Study Guide
CC - Answer✔️✔️-Chief Complaint
Segment - Answer✔️✔️-Line between two wave forms
P-wave - Answer✔️✔️-Atrial Depolarization
How many 1mm boxes are in a 6 second Rythm strip? - Answer✔️✔️-30 one
millimeter boxes
The SA node represents which waveform on the ekg? - Answer✔️✔️-Only
the P-wave
What is the reading you can get from the RR interval? - Answer✔️✔️-
Ventricular Pulse
What is the primary stage of Hemolisis? - Answer✔️✔️-Vascular phase and
platelet phase together
What is Electophoresis? - Answer✔️✔️-Analyzation of the chemical
components of blood e.g. hemoglobin, serum, urinem cerebrospinal fluid
based on electrical charge.
Positive testing for occult blood in a stool sample turn which color? -
Answer✔️✔️-Turns Blue on a positive test for occult blood in feces.
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The stages of Hemostasis: - Answer✔️✔️-1. Vascular 2. Platelet Phase 3.
Coagulation Phase 4. Fibronolysis
Blood Vessels - Answer✔️✔️-Aorta, arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venues,
veins, superior and inferior vena cavae.
Outer connective tissue layer of a blood vessel - Answer✔️✔️-Tunica
adventitia
Inner endothelial tissue layer of a blood vessel - Answer✔️✔️-Tunica Intima
The inner smooth layer of a blood vessel - Answer✔️✔️-Tunica media
The standards of right and wrong in a medical setting - Answer✔️✔️-Code
of Ethics
What do you find in capillaries? - Answer✔️✔️-A mixture of venous and
arterial blood is found
The average adult has how many liters of blood? - Answer✔️✔️-5-6 liters
What is the percentage of water in blood? - Answer✔️✔️-92%
Percentage of plasma in blood - Answer✔️✔️-55%
Percentage of Formed Elements in the blood - Answer✔️✔️-45%
99% of formed elements in blood - Answer✔️✔️-RBC's or Erythrocytes
Where you find Hemoglobin - Answer✔️✔️-RBC's
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Where do all blood cells originate? - Answer✔️✔️-Bone Marrow
How many RBC's per microliter of blood - Answer✔️✔️-4.2-6.2 million
What is the second most numerous WBC? - Answer✔️✔️-Lymphocyte with
20-40%
Their numbers increase in intracellular infections and TB - Answer✔️✔️-
Monocytes
Their numbers increase in bacterial infections and often are first on scene -
Answer✔️✔️-Neutrophils
These WBC's play an important role in viral infection as well as in
immunity. - Answer✔️✔️-Lymphocytes
Number of leukocytes for average adult per micrometer - Answer✔️✔️-5000-
10000
Leukopenia - Answer✔️✔️-Decrease in WBC's seen with viral infection and
leukemia
Comprises 3-8% of wbc or leukocytes - Answer✔️✔️-Monocytes
Largest in size of the leukocytes - Answer✔️✔️-Monocytes
Carries Histamine - Answer✔️✔️-Basophil
Injury to a blood vessel that causes it to constrict, slowing the clot of blood
- Answer✔️✔️-Cascular phase of hemostasis
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