ARRT CI EVALUATION 2026 EXAMS TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
How do you convert pounds to Kgs - ✔✔Kgs times 2.2
✔✔A patient puts on .5kg of weight due to edema. How much water loss would cause
this? - ✔✔.5L
✔✔Calculate the heart rate of a patient with a .83 RR interval. -
✔✔HR=(60sec/min)/(RR interval) 70bpm
✔✔What anatomic position means superior or towards the head? - ✔✔Cephalic
✔✔The opening in a single use sterile femoral drape sheet is called? - ✔✔A fenestrated
drape
✔✔A major safety guideline to a person transferring a premedicated patient from a bed
onto a gurney is? - ✔✔Get adequate assistance
✔✔To be legally valid, what is the latest that the patient should sign the informed
consent? - ✔✔Before the administration of pre operative medications
,✔✔What is the greatest danger of electric micro-shock? - ✔✔Ventricular fibrillation and
cardiac arrest
✔✔Hospital codes for electrical safety require electrical power cords to be? - ✔✔3 wire
insulated conductor, with 3 prong plug
✔✔When you plug in an electric instrument, sparks fly from the plug and the AC wall
receptacle. Which electrical safety problem is likely to cause this? - ✔✔The machine
was left turned on.
✔✔Murmurs in the _____ side of the heart are affected most by _____. - ✔✔Right and
respirations
✔✔Criteria that identifies, measures, monitors, and evaluated patient care come from? -
✔✔Quality assurance programs
✔✔According to joint commission what is the minimum number of patient identifiers that
should be checked before you proceed with a case? - ✔✔Two
✔✔The factor that has the least affect on most adult patients resting BP is? -
✔✔Whether they are sitting or lying down
✔✔After an accidental needle-stick from the needle used on an infected patient, what
blood borne pathogen poses the greatest risk of infection to health care workers? -
✔✔Hepatitis B
✔✔What areas of a patients body are the least likely place for blood borne pathogens to
enter? - ✔✔Intact skin
✔✔For maximum safety, healthcare workers should wear eye protection, goggles,
and/or face shields only; - ✔✔On invasive procedures using vascular access
✔✔You are accidentally exposed to a patients blood. What is the hospitals responsibility
to provide post exposure follow up and blood testing to employees? - ✔✔Must be made
available and free of charge
✔✔What blood lipoprotein is believed to have a protective preventative effect in
development of atherosclerotic heart disease? - ✔✔High density lipoproteins
✔✔Basal metabolic rate is most closely correlated with; - ✔✔Body surface area or BSA
✔✔The pharmacist-mechanical response to any substance secreted into the blood
stream by an endocrine gland is termed? - ✔✔Humoral
, ✔✔The Watt second or Joule is a unit of what? - ✔✔Energy
✔✔What instrument converts one form of energy into another? - ✔✔Transducer
✔✔Organisms that normally live deep in the crevices and sweat glands of the skin and
can not be eliminated with an aseptic skin prep are called what? - ✔✔Resident flora
✔✔Effective sterilization by autoclave depends on adequate; - ✔✔Temperature and
Time
✔✔What is not true when using alcohol based hand rubs prior to go wing and gloving
for a heart cath? - ✔✔Rubs are less effective than traditional scrub brush methods
✔✔What should you do with a sterile table if the case is canceled? - ✔✔Tear it down
and start completely over for the next case
✔✔The fetal heart at 32 days of gestation is a cardiac tube with four primitive chambers.
The most superior primitive chamber is known as the _____ and it evolves into the
_____. - ✔✔Truncus Arteriosus and PA and AO
✔✔Another name for the foremen ovals is the - ✔✔Ostium secundum
✔✔How does blood pressure level normally change immediately after birth? -
✔✔Pulmonary pressure is cut by more than half
✔✔In normal fetal life the foramen ovale is situated to preferentially shunt oxygenated
blood from the what? - ✔✔IVC
✔✔Heparin blocks clot formation by interfering with the enzymatic conversion of -
✔✔Prothrombin to Thrombin
✔✔The expected blood volume of a 20kg child is? - ✔✔1.4L OR 8% of the body weight
✔✔What does a WBC count of 7000 usually indicate about an adult patient? -
✔✔Normal WBC range is 5-9 thousand
9,000 + = infection or inflammation
10,000+ = pathological condition
✔✔Injured endothelium tends to collect a "white clot" formed by? - ✔✔Platelets or
Thrombocytes
✔✔Following cardiac arrest a resuscitated patients arterial blood gases are
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
How do you convert pounds to Kgs - ✔✔Kgs times 2.2
✔✔A patient puts on .5kg of weight due to edema. How much water loss would cause
this? - ✔✔.5L
✔✔Calculate the heart rate of a patient with a .83 RR interval. -
✔✔HR=(60sec/min)/(RR interval) 70bpm
✔✔What anatomic position means superior or towards the head? - ✔✔Cephalic
✔✔The opening in a single use sterile femoral drape sheet is called? - ✔✔A fenestrated
drape
✔✔A major safety guideline to a person transferring a premedicated patient from a bed
onto a gurney is? - ✔✔Get adequate assistance
✔✔To be legally valid, what is the latest that the patient should sign the informed
consent? - ✔✔Before the administration of pre operative medications
,✔✔What is the greatest danger of electric micro-shock? - ✔✔Ventricular fibrillation and
cardiac arrest
✔✔Hospital codes for electrical safety require electrical power cords to be? - ✔✔3 wire
insulated conductor, with 3 prong plug
✔✔When you plug in an electric instrument, sparks fly from the plug and the AC wall
receptacle. Which electrical safety problem is likely to cause this? - ✔✔The machine
was left turned on.
✔✔Murmurs in the _____ side of the heart are affected most by _____. - ✔✔Right and
respirations
✔✔Criteria that identifies, measures, monitors, and evaluated patient care come from? -
✔✔Quality assurance programs
✔✔According to joint commission what is the minimum number of patient identifiers that
should be checked before you proceed with a case? - ✔✔Two
✔✔The factor that has the least affect on most adult patients resting BP is? -
✔✔Whether they are sitting or lying down
✔✔After an accidental needle-stick from the needle used on an infected patient, what
blood borne pathogen poses the greatest risk of infection to health care workers? -
✔✔Hepatitis B
✔✔What areas of a patients body are the least likely place for blood borne pathogens to
enter? - ✔✔Intact skin
✔✔For maximum safety, healthcare workers should wear eye protection, goggles,
and/or face shields only; - ✔✔On invasive procedures using vascular access
✔✔You are accidentally exposed to a patients blood. What is the hospitals responsibility
to provide post exposure follow up and blood testing to employees? - ✔✔Must be made
available and free of charge
✔✔What blood lipoprotein is believed to have a protective preventative effect in
development of atherosclerotic heart disease? - ✔✔High density lipoproteins
✔✔Basal metabolic rate is most closely correlated with; - ✔✔Body surface area or BSA
✔✔The pharmacist-mechanical response to any substance secreted into the blood
stream by an endocrine gland is termed? - ✔✔Humoral
, ✔✔The Watt second or Joule is a unit of what? - ✔✔Energy
✔✔What instrument converts one form of energy into another? - ✔✔Transducer
✔✔Organisms that normally live deep in the crevices and sweat glands of the skin and
can not be eliminated with an aseptic skin prep are called what? - ✔✔Resident flora
✔✔Effective sterilization by autoclave depends on adequate; - ✔✔Temperature and
Time
✔✔What is not true when using alcohol based hand rubs prior to go wing and gloving
for a heart cath? - ✔✔Rubs are less effective than traditional scrub brush methods
✔✔What should you do with a sterile table if the case is canceled? - ✔✔Tear it down
and start completely over for the next case
✔✔The fetal heart at 32 days of gestation is a cardiac tube with four primitive chambers.
The most superior primitive chamber is known as the _____ and it evolves into the
_____. - ✔✔Truncus Arteriosus and PA and AO
✔✔Another name for the foremen ovals is the - ✔✔Ostium secundum
✔✔How does blood pressure level normally change immediately after birth? -
✔✔Pulmonary pressure is cut by more than half
✔✔In normal fetal life the foramen ovale is situated to preferentially shunt oxygenated
blood from the what? - ✔✔IVC
✔✔Heparin blocks clot formation by interfering with the enzymatic conversion of -
✔✔Prothrombin to Thrombin
✔✔The expected blood volume of a 20kg child is? - ✔✔1.4L OR 8% of the body weight
✔✔What does a WBC count of 7000 usually indicate about an adult patient? -
✔✔Normal WBC range is 5-9 thousand
9,000 + = infection or inflammation
10,000+ = pathological condition
✔✔Injured endothelium tends to collect a "white clot" formed by? - ✔✔Platelets or
Thrombocytes
✔✔Following cardiac arrest a resuscitated patients arterial blood gases are
