Medical Assistant Certification Exam| 294 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

What are the 4 parts to a patient's medical history? Correct Answer: chief complaint (CC), history of present illness (HPI), Past, Family and Social History (PFSH), and review of systems (ROS) Vital signs reflect the functions of what three body processes necessary for life? Correct Answer: body temperature, respiration and heart function what are the 4 vital signs of body function? Correct Answer: temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure Give the normal temp ranges for the following sites: rectal, oral, axillary and tympanic membrane? Correct Answer: rectal 98.6-100 oral 97.6-99.6 axillary 96.6-98.6 tympanic 9.8.6 febrile v afebrile Correct Answer: febrile is the presence of fever, afebrile is absence of fever 3 types of fever? Correct Answer: intermittent, remittent and continuous oral temperature is not taken from which patients? Correct Answer: infants and children less than 6 yo, patients who had face, neck nose or mouth surgery, those receiving oxygen, patients w altered mental status and others how long should you wait for patients who just finished eating drinking or smoking to take temp? Correct Answer: 30 minutes What method of taking temp is the least accurate? Correct Answer: axillary (underarm) normal adult pulse range Correct Answer: 60-100 BPM what is the site most commonly used for taking pulse? Correct Answer: radial artery in wrist normal range for adults respiration? Correct Answer: 12-20 per minute what are 3 respiration rate abnormalities? Correct Answer: apnea- temporary complete absence of breathing tachypnea- rate bradypnea- decease in number of respirations What are to abnormalities in respiratory rhythm? Correct Answer: Cheyne-Stokes- regular pattern of irregular breathing rate Orthopnea- difficult to breathe unless in upwright pos