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CC - Answer Chief Complaint
Segment - Answer Line between two wave forms
P-wave - Answer Atrial Depolarization
How many 1mm boxes are in a 6 second Rythm strip? - Answer 30 one millimeter boxes
The SA node represents which waveform on the ekg? - Answer Only the P-wave
What is the reading you can get from the RR interval? - Answer Ventricular Pulse
What is the primary stage of Hemolisis? - Answer Vascular phase and platelet phase together
What is Electophoresis? - Answer Analyzation of the chemical components of blood e.g. hemoglobin,
serum, urinem cerebrospinal fluid based on electrical charge.
Positive testing for occult blood in a stool sample turn which color? - Answer Turns Blue on a positive
test for occult blood in feces.
The stages of Hemostasis: - Answer 1. Vascular 2. Platelet Phase 3. Coagulation Phase 4. Fibronolysis
Blood Vessels - Answer Aorta, arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venues, veins, superior and inferior vena
cavae.
Outer connective tissue layer of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica adventitia
,Inner endothelial tissue layer of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica Intima
The inner smooth layer of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica media
The standards of right and wrong in a medical setting - Answer Code of Ethics
What do you find in capillaries? - Answer A mixture of venous and arterial blood is found
The average adult has how many liters of blood? - Answer 5-6 liters
What is the percentage of water in blood? - Answer 92%
Percentage of plasma in blood - Answer 55%
Percentage of Formed Elements in the blood - Answer 45%
99% of formed elements in blood - Answer RBC's or Erythrocytes
Where you find Hemoglobin - Answer RBC's
Where do all blood cells originate? - Answer Bone Marrow
How many RBC's per microliter of blood - Answer 4.2-6.2 million
What is the second most numerous WBC? - Answer Lymphocyte with 20-40%
Their numbers increase in intracellular infections and TB - Answer Monocytes
Their numbers increase in bacterial infections and often are first on scene - Answer Neutrophils
, These WBC's play an important role in viral infection as well as in immunity. - Answer Lymphocytes
Number of leukocytes for average adult per micrometer - Answer 5000-10000
Leukopenia - Answer Decrease in WBC's seen with viral infection and leukemia
Comprises 3-8% of wbc or leukocytes - Answer Monocytes
Largest in size of the leukocytes - Answer Monocytes
Carries Histamine - Answer Basophil
Injury to a blood vessel that causes it to constrict, slowing the clot of blood - Answer Cascular phase of
hemostasis
Preferred site for venipuncture - Answer Antecubital fossa
Test used to evaluate the intrinsic pathway and monitor heparin therapy - Answer APTT also know as
PTT
Test used to evaluate the extrinsic pathway and also used to monitor warfarin therapy - Answer PT
Fibrinolysis - Answer Breakdown and removal of a clot
Converts the temorary platelet plug into a stable fibrin clot - Answer Coagulation phase
2nd choice vein for venipuncture most often the only one palpatable in an obese pt - Answer Cephalic
vein
Verified Questions & Answers
CC - Answer Chief Complaint
Segment - Answer Line between two wave forms
P-wave - Answer Atrial Depolarization
How many 1mm boxes are in a 6 second Rythm strip? - Answer 30 one millimeter boxes
The SA node represents which waveform on the ekg? - Answer Only the P-wave
What is the reading you can get from the RR interval? - Answer Ventricular Pulse
What is the primary stage of Hemolisis? - Answer Vascular phase and platelet phase together
What is Electophoresis? - Answer Analyzation of the chemical components of blood e.g. hemoglobin,
serum, urinem cerebrospinal fluid based on electrical charge.
Positive testing for occult blood in a stool sample turn which color? - Answer Turns Blue on a positive
test for occult blood in feces.
The stages of Hemostasis: - Answer 1. Vascular 2. Platelet Phase 3. Coagulation Phase 4. Fibronolysis
Blood Vessels - Answer Aorta, arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venues, veins, superior and inferior vena
cavae.
Outer connective tissue layer of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica adventitia
,Inner endothelial tissue layer of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica Intima
The inner smooth layer of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica media
The standards of right and wrong in a medical setting - Answer Code of Ethics
What do you find in capillaries? - Answer A mixture of venous and arterial blood is found
The average adult has how many liters of blood? - Answer 5-6 liters
What is the percentage of water in blood? - Answer 92%
Percentage of plasma in blood - Answer 55%
Percentage of Formed Elements in the blood - Answer 45%
99% of formed elements in blood - Answer RBC's or Erythrocytes
Where you find Hemoglobin - Answer RBC's
Where do all blood cells originate? - Answer Bone Marrow
How many RBC's per microliter of blood - Answer 4.2-6.2 million
What is the second most numerous WBC? - Answer Lymphocyte with 20-40%
Their numbers increase in intracellular infections and TB - Answer Monocytes
Their numbers increase in bacterial infections and often are first on scene - Answer Neutrophils
, These WBC's play an important role in viral infection as well as in immunity. - Answer Lymphocytes
Number of leukocytes for average adult per micrometer - Answer 5000-10000
Leukopenia - Answer Decrease in WBC's seen with viral infection and leukemia
Comprises 3-8% of wbc or leukocytes - Answer Monocytes
Largest in size of the leukocytes - Answer Monocytes
Carries Histamine - Answer Basophil
Injury to a blood vessel that causes it to constrict, slowing the clot of blood - Answer Cascular phase of
hemostasis
Preferred site for venipuncture - Answer Antecubital fossa
Test used to evaluate the intrinsic pathway and monitor heparin therapy - Answer APTT also know as
PTT
Test used to evaluate the extrinsic pathway and also used to monitor warfarin therapy - Answer PT
Fibrinolysis - Answer Breakdown and removal of a clot
Converts the temorary platelet plug into a stable fibrin clot - Answer Coagulation phase
2nd choice vein for venipuncture most often the only one palpatable in an obese pt - Answer Cephalic
vein
