PLTW Principle of Biomedical Science
(PBS) Final Review Exam Questions and
Answers
PPE - Correct Answers -Personal protective equipment v
HIPAA - Correct Answers -(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) -
Regulates how medical professionals and other people use and disclose certain
individually identifiable health information.
Times when patient's confidentiality should be broken... - Correct Answers -if it was a
minor(18 and younger), causes dangers to other
Steps for processing a crime scene - Correct Answers -Sketch, photograph, interview,
collect evidence, and examine the scene
5 Types of evidence to be collected - Correct Answers -Hair, fingerprint, shoeprint,
unknown substances, and blood
Medical Examiner - Correct Answers -A physician who performs an autopsy when death
may be accidental or violent.
5 Manners of death - Correct Answers -Classification of death: suicide, homicide,
natural, accidental, and undefined
Cause of death - Correct Answers -Disease or injury that produced the death
The small patterns of fingerprints are called... - Correct Answers -Minutiae
Layers of hair... - Correct Answers -innermost to outermost: medulla, cortex, and cuticle
Glucagon - Correct Answers -A protein hormone secreted by pancreatic endocrine cells
that raises blood glucose levels; an antagonist hormone to insulin
(PBS) Final Review Exam Questions and
Answers
PPE - Correct Answers -Personal protective equipment v
HIPAA - Correct Answers -(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) -
Regulates how medical professionals and other people use and disclose certain
individually identifiable health information.
Times when patient's confidentiality should be broken... - Correct Answers -if it was a
minor(18 and younger), causes dangers to other
Steps for processing a crime scene - Correct Answers -Sketch, photograph, interview,
collect evidence, and examine the scene
5 Types of evidence to be collected - Correct Answers -Hair, fingerprint, shoeprint,
unknown substances, and blood
Medical Examiner - Correct Answers -A physician who performs an autopsy when death
may be accidental or violent.
5 Manners of death - Correct Answers -Classification of death: suicide, homicide,
natural, accidental, and undefined
Cause of death - Correct Answers -Disease or injury that produced the death
The small patterns of fingerprints are called... - Correct Answers -Minutiae
Layers of hair... - Correct Answers -innermost to outermost: medulla, cortex, and cuticle
Glucagon - Correct Answers -A protein hormone secreted by pancreatic endocrine cells
that raises blood glucose levels; an antagonist hormone to insulin
