NCMA Study Guide 2023

NCMA Study Guide Right and wrong conduct is known as - ethics Negligence by a professional person is called - malpractice The ability to see things from another person's point of view is - empathy ___________is a federal regulation that requires health care professionals to protect the privacy and confidentiality of patient's health information - HIPAA In the healthcare field the acronym HIPAA stands for - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act The suffix -emia means - blood The abbreviation for urinalysis is - UA The word element cardio means - heart The word element cranio means - Skull High blood pressure is referred to as - Hypertension A drug that causes urination is called a(n) - Diuretic A drug used to prevent blood from clotting is called a(n) - anticoagulant A drug used to control temperature is called a(n) - antipyretic The abbreviation from intramuscular is - IM The abbreviation for right ear is - AD An inactive substance substituted in place of the actual drug to satisfy the patient is called a(n) - placebo Referring to illustration #1 please identify the number 1 - Temporal Referring to illustration #1 please identify the number 2 - Scapula Referring to illustration #1 please identify the number 3 - Humerus The second portion of the small intestine is called the - duodenum Branches of the bundle branches which transmit the impulses to the walls of the ventricles, causing the ventricles to contract are called - purkinje fibers A coronary occlusion causing a condition that produces chest pain which may radiate to the left arm, shoulder, jaw or neck, due to lack of blood supply to the heart is called - angina pectoris An obstruction of the coronary artery causing death in an area of the myocardium due to blockage of blood supply and oxygen supply is called - myocardial infarction Deoxygenated blood enters the right atrium of the - heart When the right atrium contracts it forces blood through the tricuspid valve into the ______ ventricle - right The right ventricle pumps the used blood to the lungs by way of the _____artery - pulmonary The clean-catch urine specimen is also called - -clean-voided specimen -mid-stream specimen