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(NHA) Medical Assisting Certification
Study Guide Exam Questions And
Solutions
CC - answers✔✔Chief Complaint
Segment - answers✔✔Line between two waveforms
P Wave - answers✔✔Arterial Depolarization
How many 1mm boxes are in a 6 second rhythm strip? - answers✔✔30 one millimeter boxes
The SA node represents which waveform on the EKG? - answers✔✔Only the P wave
What is the reading you can get from the RR interval? - answers✔✔Ventricular Pulse
What is the primary stage of Hemolysis? - answers✔✔Vascular phase and platelet phase
together
What is Electrophoresis? - answers✔✔Analyzation of the chemical components of blood, e.g.
hemoglobin, serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid based on electrical charge.
Positive testing for occult blood in a stool sample turns which color? - answers✔✔Turns blue
on a positive test for occult blood in feces
The stages of Hemostasis - answers✔✔1. Vascular, 2. Platelet Phase, 3. Coagulation Phase,
4. Fibronolysis
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Blood vessels - answers✔✔Aorta, Arteries, Arterioles, Capillaries, Venues, Veins, Superior
and Inferior Vena Cavae
Outer connective tissue layer of a blood vessel - answers✔✔Tunica Adventitia
Inner endothelial tissue of a blood vessel - answers✔✔Tunica Intima
The inner smooth layer of a blood vessel - answers✔✔Tunica tunica media
The standards of right and wrong in a medical setting - answers✔✔Code of Ethics
What do you find in capillaries? - answers✔✔A mixture of venous and arterial blood is found
The average adult has how many liters of blood? - answers✔✔5-6 Liters
What is the percentage of water in the blood? - answers✔✔92%
Percentage of plasma in the blood? - answers✔✔55%
Percentage of formed elements in the blood? - answers✔✔45%
99% of formed elements in the blood - answers✔✔RBC,s or Erythrocytes
Where do you find hemoglobin? - answers✔✔RBC,s
Where do all blood cells originate? - answers✔✔Bone marrow
How many RBC,s per microliter of blood - answers✔✔4.2-6.2 million
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What is the second most numerous WBC - answers✔✔Lymphocyte with 20-40%
Their numbers increase in intracellular infections and TB - answers✔✔Monocytes
Their numbers increase in bacterial infections and are often first on the scene -
answers✔✔Neutrophils
These WBC,s play an important role in viral infection as well as in immunity -
answers✔✔Lymphocytes
Number of leukocytes for average adult per microliter - answers✔✔5000-10000
Leukopenia - answers✔✔Decrease in WBC,s seen with viral infection and leukemia
Comprises 3-8% of WBC or leukocytes - answers✔✔Monocytes
Largest in size of the leukocytes - answers✔✔Monocytes
Carries histamine - answers✔✔Basophil
Injury to a blood vessel that causes it to constrict, slowing the clod of blood. -
answers✔✔Vascular phase of Hemostasis
Preferred site for a venipuncture - answers✔✔Antecubital Fossa
Test used to evaluate the intrinsic pathway and monitor heparin therapy - answers✔✔APTT
also know as PTT
Test used to evaluate the extrinsic pathway and also used to monitor warfarin therapy -
answers✔✔PT