CCMA CERTIFICATION STUDY GUIDE
EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS
Chief complaint CC - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS Temperature, pulse, respiration, and Blood pressure are all ___________
___________.
Normal oral temperature - ANS 97.6F - 99.6F
intermittent fever - ANS Fever that alternates between elevated and normal or subnormal
body temperatures.
Remittent fever - ANS fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly but never falls to the
normal level.
Continuous fever - ANS A fever that remains constant above the baseline, does not fluctuate.
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, 60-100 BPM - ANS Normal pulse rate
Respirations - ANS Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account when measuring what?
Systole - ANS contraction of the heart
Diastole - ANS relaxation of the heart
Anthropometric measurements - ANS 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 - ANS General appearance, state of nutrition, body habits, symmetry, pasture and
gait, speech.
palpation - ANS to examine by touch
Percussion - ANS 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 - ANS the act of listening to sounds arising within organs (as the lungs or heart)
as an aid to diagnosis and treatment.
OSHA - ANS a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy
work environment
cardiopulmonary resuscitation - ANS an emergency procedure for life support consisting of
artificial respiration and manual external cardiac compression
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EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS
Chief complaint CC - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS Temperature, pulse, respiration, and Blood pressure are all ___________
___________.
Normal oral temperature - ANS 97.6F - 99.6F
intermittent fever - ANS Fever that alternates between elevated and normal or subnormal
body temperatures.
Remittent fever - ANS fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly but never falls to the
normal level.
Continuous fever - ANS A fever that remains constant above the baseline, does not fluctuate.
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, 60-100 BPM - ANS Normal pulse rate
Respirations - ANS Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account when measuring what?
Systole - ANS contraction of the heart
Diastole - ANS relaxation of the heart
Anthropometric measurements - ANS 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 - ANS General appearance, state of nutrition, body habits, symmetry, pasture and
gait, speech.
palpation - ANS to examine by touch
Percussion - ANS 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 - ANS the act of listening to sounds arising within organs (as the lungs or heart)
as an aid to diagnosis and treatment.
OSHA - ANS a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy
work environment
cardiopulmonary resuscitation - ANS an emergency procedure for life support consisting of
artificial respiration and manual external cardiac compression
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