NHA Medical Assisting Certification Study Guide
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CC - Answer Chief Complaint
Segment - Answer Line between two waveforms
P Wave - Answer Arterial Depolarization
How many 1mm boxes are in a 6 second rhythm 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 Hemolysis? - Answer Vascular phase and platelet phase together
What is Electrophoresis? - Answer Analyzation of the chemical components of blood, e.g. hemoglobin,
serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid based on electrical charge.
Positive testing for occult blood in a stool sample turns 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 of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica Intima
The inner smooth layer of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica 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 the blood? - Answer 92%
Percentage of plasma in the blood? - Answer 55%
Percentage of formed elements in the blood? - Answer 45%
99% of formed elements in the blood - Answer RBC,s or Erythrocytes
Where do 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 are often first on the 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 microliter - 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 clod of blood. - Answer Vascular phase of
Hemostasis
Preferred site for a 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 temporary platelet plug in a stable fibrin clot - Answer Coagulation Phase
2nd choice vein for venipuncture and most often the only one palatable in an obese Pt. - Answer
Cephalic vein
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CC - Answer Chief Complaint
Segment - Answer Line between two waveforms
P Wave - Answer Arterial Depolarization
How many 1mm boxes are in a 6 second rhythm 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 Hemolysis? - Answer Vascular phase and platelet phase together
What is Electrophoresis? - Answer Analyzation of the chemical components of blood, e.g. hemoglobin,
serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid based on electrical charge.
Positive testing for occult blood in a stool sample turns 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 of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica Intima
The inner smooth layer of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica 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 the blood? - Answer 92%
Percentage of plasma in the blood? - Answer 55%
Percentage of formed elements in the blood? - Answer 45%
99% of formed elements in the blood - Answer RBC,s or Erythrocytes
Where do 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 are often first on the 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 microliter - 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 clod of blood. - Answer Vascular phase of
Hemostasis
Preferred site for a 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 temporary platelet plug in a stable fibrin clot - Answer Coagulation Phase
2nd choice vein for venipuncture and most often the only one palatable in an obese Pt. - Answer
Cephalic vein
