ALLIED HEALTH UPDATED EXAMINATION SETS
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What body measurement are recorded? - ✔✔A pateint's height and weight. For
infants, head circumference as well.
✔✔Why are body measurments important? - ✔✔Used for testing, dosages, and
comparison to others. Also signals abnormalities and disease
✔✔What are some different types of scales? - ✔✔Balance beam scale, infant scale,
bed scale, wheelchair scale
✔✔What are the English units for height and weight? - ✔✔Weight- pounds and ounces
Height- feet and inches
✔✔What are the metric units for height and weight? - ✔✔Weight- kilograms
Height- centimeters
✔✔What is body max index and what is it used for? - ✔✔A numerical value of a
person's weight in relation to their height. Used to determine the amount of body fat and
tell if someone is at a healthy weight
✔✔What BMI typically indicates a normal weight? - ✔✔Between 18.5 and 25 kg/m2
✔✔What are the limitations of BMI? - ✔✔Doesn't account for bone structure and muscle
mass increasing weight
✔✔Where can glass/mercury thermometers measure temperature? - ✔✔Oral, rectal,
and axillary or groin
✔✔Why are glass thermometers rarely used today? - ✔✔The threat of broken glass,
mercury spills, and the ease of digitial thermometers
✔✔How is a glass thermometer read? - ✔✔Locate the point where the column ends,
long lines = whole degrees, short lines = even numbered tenths, hold the stem at eye
level, rotate to see the column, and always round up
✔✔What kind of thermometers have replaced glass thermometers? - ✔✔Electronic
thermometers
✔✔Where can elctronic thermometers measure temperature? - ✔✔Oral, rectal, and
axillary or groin
✔✔How is temperature read on an electronic thermometer? - ✔✔It is digitally displayed
,✔✔Where are tympanic temperatures taken? - ✔✔In the ear
✔✔What are tympanic thermometers? - ✔✔Electronic thermometers used to record the
aural temperature in the ear
✔✔What are advantages of the tympanic thermometer? - ✔✔Fast, convenient, takes
readings in less than two seconds, and have disposable plastic covers, so no need to
sterilize
✔✔What does temperature measure? - ✔✔The balance between heat produced and
heat lost
✔✔How is heat lost? - ✔✔Perspiration, respiration, excretion, conduction, and
convection
✔✔How is heat produced? - ✔✔Metabolism, muscle activity, and gland activity
✔✔List methods for taking temperature - ✔✔Oral, rectal, tympanic, axillary or groin, and
temporal
✔✔What is a noraml range for an oral temperature? - ✔✔97.6-99.6
✔✔What is the average oral temperature? - ✔✔98.6
✔✔What is the noraml range for a rectal or tympanic temperature? - ✔✔98.6-100.3
✔✔What is the normal range for an axillary or groin temperature? - ✔✔96.6-98.6
✔✔What factors lead to an increased temperature? - ✔✔Illness, infection, exercise,
excitemet, or high temperature environments
✔✔Always ask a patient what before taking an oral temperature? - ✔✔Have you eaten,
drank, or smoked in the last 20 minutes?
✔✔Always ask a pateint what before saying their weight? - ✔✔Would you like to know
your weight today?
✔✔What factors can lead to a decreased temperature? - ✔✔Mouth-breathing, sleep,
decreased muscle activity, disease, starvation or fasting, and cold temperature
environments
✔✔What is hypothermia? - ✔✔A rectal temperature below 95, caused by being
exposed to a cold environment for too long
, ✔✔What is a fever? - ✔✔Rectal temperature that is above 101
✔✔What is hyperthermia? - ✔✔A rectal temperature above 104, caused by being
exposed to a hot environemnt for too long
✔✔What are some common types of thermometers? - ✔✔glass, electronic, tympanic,
temporal
✔✔When using a temporal thermometer, what are two locations where a reading can
be taken? - ✔✔On the neck behind the earlobe or across the forehead
✔✔Average adult pulse - ✔✔60-100 bpm
✔✔How is pulse defined? - ✔✔The pressure of the blood pushing against the wall of
the artery as the heart contracts
✔✔What is rate? (Pulse) - ✔✔Rate is the number of beats per minute
✔✔What is rhythm? (pulse) - ✔✔The pattern of the beats
✔✔What is volume? (pulse) - ✔✔The character, or strength, of the beats
✔✔Where is the radial pulse located? - ✔✔Thumb side of wrist
✔✔Where is the brachial pulse located? - ✔✔inside of elbow
✔✔Where is the carotid pulse? - ✔✔side of neck
✔✔Where is the popliteal pulse located? - ✔✔back of knee
✔✔Where is the femoral pulse located? - ✔✔groin
✔✔Where is the dorsalis pedis pulse? - ✔✔top of foot
✔✔Where is the temporal pulse located? - ✔✔side of forehead
✔✔How can a pulse be measured by palpation? - ✔✔Involves examination by touching
with fingers or hands
✔✔How can pulse be measured by auscultation? - ✔✔Involves examination by listening
to the sounds of the body
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What body measurement are recorded? - ✔✔A pateint's height and weight. For
infants, head circumference as well.
✔✔Why are body measurments important? - ✔✔Used for testing, dosages, and
comparison to others. Also signals abnormalities and disease
✔✔What are some different types of scales? - ✔✔Balance beam scale, infant scale,
bed scale, wheelchair scale
✔✔What are the English units for height and weight? - ✔✔Weight- pounds and ounces
Height- feet and inches
✔✔What are the metric units for height and weight? - ✔✔Weight- kilograms
Height- centimeters
✔✔What is body max index and what is it used for? - ✔✔A numerical value of a
person's weight in relation to their height. Used to determine the amount of body fat and
tell if someone is at a healthy weight
✔✔What BMI typically indicates a normal weight? - ✔✔Between 18.5 and 25 kg/m2
✔✔What are the limitations of BMI? - ✔✔Doesn't account for bone structure and muscle
mass increasing weight
✔✔Where can glass/mercury thermometers measure temperature? - ✔✔Oral, rectal,
and axillary or groin
✔✔Why are glass thermometers rarely used today? - ✔✔The threat of broken glass,
mercury spills, and the ease of digitial thermometers
✔✔How is a glass thermometer read? - ✔✔Locate the point where the column ends,
long lines = whole degrees, short lines = even numbered tenths, hold the stem at eye
level, rotate to see the column, and always round up
✔✔What kind of thermometers have replaced glass thermometers? - ✔✔Electronic
thermometers
✔✔Where can elctronic thermometers measure temperature? - ✔✔Oral, rectal, and
axillary or groin
✔✔How is temperature read on an electronic thermometer? - ✔✔It is digitally displayed
,✔✔Where are tympanic temperatures taken? - ✔✔In the ear
✔✔What are tympanic thermometers? - ✔✔Electronic thermometers used to record the
aural temperature in the ear
✔✔What are advantages of the tympanic thermometer? - ✔✔Fast, convenient, takes
readings in less than two seconds, and have disposable plastic covers, so no need to
sterilize
✔✔What does temperature measure? - ✔✔The balance between heat produced and
heat lost
✔✔How is heat lost? - ✔✔Perspiration, respiration, excretion, conduction, and
convection
✔✔How is heat produced? - ✔✔Metabolism, muscle activity, and gland activity
✔✔List methods for taking temperature - ✔✔Oral, rectal, tympanic, axillary or groin, and
temporal
✔✔What is a noraml range for an oral temperature? - ✔✔97.6-99.6
✔✔What is the average oral temperature? - ✔✔98.6
✔✔What is the noraml range for a rectal or tympanic temperature? - ✔✔98.6-100.3
✔✔What is the normal range for an axillary or groin temperature? - ✔✔96.6-98.6
✔✔What factors lead to an increased temperature? - ✔✔Illness, infection, exercise,
excitemet, or high temperature environments
✔✔Always ask a patient what before taking an oral temperature? - ✔✔Have you eaten,
drank, or smoked in the last 20 minutes?
✔✔Always ask a pateint what before saying their weight? - ✔✔Would you like to know
your weight today?
✔✔What factors can lead to a decreased temperature? - ✔✔Mouth-breathing, sleep,
decreased muscle activity, disease, starvation or fasting, and cold temperature
environments
✔✔What is hypothermia? - ✔✔A rectal temperature below 95, caused by being
exposed to a cold environment for too long
, ✔✔What is a fever? - ✔✔Rectal temperature that is above 101
✔✔What is hyperthermia? - ✔✔A rectal temperature above 104, caused by being
exposed to a hot environemnt for too long
✔✔What are some common types of thermometers? - ✔✔glass, electronic, tympanic,
temporal
✔✔When using a temporal thermometer, what are two locations where a reading can
be taken? - ✔✔On the neck behind the earlobe or across the forehead
✔✔Average adult pulse - ✔✔60-100 bpm
✔✔How is pulse defined? - ✔✔The pressure of the blood pushing against the wall of
the artery as the heart contracts
✔✔What is rate? (Pulse) - ✔✔Rate is the number of beats per minute
✔✔What is rhythm? (pulse) - ✔✔The pattern of the beats
✔✔What is volume? (pulse) - ✔✔The character, or strength, of the beats
✔✔Where is the radial pulse located? - ✔✔Thumb side of wrist
✔✔Where is the brachial pulse located? - ✔✔inside of elbow
✔✔Where is the carotid pulse? - ✔✔side of neck
✔✔Where is the popliteal pulse located? - ✔✔back of knee
✔✔Where is the femoral pulse located? - ✔✔groin
✔✔Where is the dorsalis pedis pulse? - ✔✔top of foot
✔✔Where is the temporal pulse located? - ✔✔side of forehead
✔✔How can a pulse be measured by palpation? - ✔✔Involves examination by touching
with fingers or hands
✔✔How can pulse be measured by auscultation? - ✔✔Involves examination by listening
to the sounds of the body
