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A physician is not required to report: ✔✔Stroke
A crime punishable by a fine or imprisonment for less than a year is ✔✔Misdemeanor
Professional negligence is also called ✔✔Malpractice
What should an assistive person keep in mind during their daily routine in medicine ✔✔Confidentiality
When is it permissible to release information about a patient record ✔✔When the court requests it by means of a subpoena
Under what circumstance is it permissible to release information from a patient's records ✔✔When patient signs a consent form
Potential infectious body fluid doesn't include ✔✔Sweat
Cleaning technique is another name for ✔✔Medical asespsis
Instruments that penetrate a patient's skin should be ✔✔Sterile
Instruments that come in contact with only a patient's mucous membrane should be ✔✔Disinfected
Instruments that touch only the healthy intact skin should be ✔✔Sanitized
Anything that posseses a risk to the human body or a living organism is called a ✔✔Biohazard
OSHA standard requires ✔✔A written schedule for cleaning
Treating all human blood as if it were infectious is called ✔✔Universal precautions
Standard precautions are ✔✔Used mainly in hospitals
In what position is used to examine the rectum, where the patient lies on the left side with the left leg sightly flexed ✔✔Sims'
What thermometer is considered the most accurate indicator of the body temp. ✔✔Rectal
The artery most common used for taking pulse ✔✔Radial
A patient's temp. was 96.9¤f, what is the temp. in ¤c ✔✔36.1¤c
What is not a vital sign ✔✔Weight
What term means "difficulty breathing" ✔✔Dyspnea
When taking rectal temp. how long should the thermometer be left in the rectum ✔✔5 min
The absence of respiration for periods lasting 15 < ✔✔Apnea
What area of the body is the popliteal pulse taken ✔✔Knee
What is included in a patient's vital signs ✔✔Respiration
What temperature is considered fatal ✔✔103.8¤f
What route is involved in administering a drug by placing it under the patient's tongue and leaving it there until it dissolves? ✔✔Sublingual
What part of a prescription includes, patient name address date and the Rx symbol ✔✔Superscription
Sedative ✔✔Barbituate
Codeine is an example of what kind of drug ✔✔Narcotic analgesic
What is the most common route for administering parenteral medication (going into GI tract, non digestive system) ✔✔Injection
The most commonly used size for insulin syringe is ✔✔100 units
When a patient is vomiting, what route is the most aproprate to administer the drug? ✔✔Rectaly
A single order that is administered immediately and usually written for emergencies is known as ✔✔STAT order
Significant gaps in the quality of testing practices in physician's offices resulted in the recent development of ✔✔Good laboratory practices
Deceitful or false portrayal of facts by word of conduct is the definition of ✔✔Fraud
A procedure manual includes ✔✔The purpose of procedures, the required equipment, revised dates
A phlebotomist misidentified a patient's specimen for transfusion preparation. A possible misdiagnosis of blood type could cause the patients death. If the phlebotomists' actions result in injury, the wrongful act is ✔✔Negligence
What would be a QA procedure in a phlebotomy lab ✔✔Checking needles fit blunt tips and small barbs
An example of QA indicators are ✔✔The contamination rate for BC will not exceed the national rate
Unauthorized release of confidential patient information is called ✔✔Invasion of privacy
An example of negligence is when the phlebotomist ✔✔Fails to report significant changes in a patient's condition
Civil actions involve ✔✔Legal proceedings between private party
Drawing a patient's blood without his/her consent can result in ✔✔Assault and battery charges
A series of components that lead to infection are referred to as ✔✔Chain of infection
The pathogen responsibilities for cause of an infection is called the infectious ✔✔Agent
An example of a disease requiring droplet isolation is ✔✔Pertussis
A suffix is an element of a word that ✔✔Follows the root word
What word is used to describe the breakdown of red blood cells ✔✔Erythrocytosis
The balanced or "steady state" of the body ✔✔Homeostasis
Prefix meaning "outside" ✔✔Exo-
Which body organ is primarily affected in a person with pulmonary disease ✔✔Lungs
Hepatitis ✔✔Liver inflammation
The lab abbreviation PT stands for ✔✔Prothrombin time
The word root of the term oncologist means ✔✔Tumor
The word root of the medical term thoracic ✔✔Thorac/o
What term means cold ✔✔Cry/o
Which plane divides the body into equal portions ✔✔Midsagittal
When you are facing someone in normal anatomical position, at which body plane are you looking ✔✔Frontal
Which body plane divides the body into upper and lower portions ✔✔Transverse
The term"distal" means ✔✔Farthest from the point of attachment
The plantar surface of the foot is ✔✔Sole or bottom
An example of a dorsal Cavity ✔✔Spinal cavity
The heart chamber delivers oxygen - rich blood to ascending aorta ✔✔Left ventricle
The heart chamber receives blood from the systemic system ✔✔Right atrium
The heart muscle gets its blood supply from ✔✔The coronary arteries
Myocardial ischemia is a condition that results from ✔✔Partial obstruction of a coronary artery
One complete constriction and subsequent relaxation of the heart is called ✔✔Cycle
The average heart rate is ✔✔ 72
An abnormally fast heat rate is ✔✔Tachycardia
Lavender stopper tubes are most commonly used for ✔✔Hematology tests
Lithium heparin is a suitable anticoagulant for what test ✔✔Lytes (electrolytes)
Which additive is found in the royal blue topped tube ✔✔EDTA
Measurement of copper, a trace element, requires blood collection in the _____ tube ✔✔Royal blue. (If using butterfly method, 1royalblue then 1lightblue)
This needle gauge is primarily for infant out child veins. ✔✔23g
A solution used to clean the site before routine for venipuncture is ✔✔70% isopropyl alcohol
What does the gauge on a needle mean ✔✔The diameter
The slant of a needle is the ✔✔Bevel
What stopper identifies a tube for coagulation testing ✔✔Light blue (see how fast blood clots)
Heparin prevents blood from clotting by ✔✔Inhibiting thrombin
A preop patient ✔✔Will soon be in surgery
Tests are classified as routine if they are ordered ✔✔In the course of establishing a diagnosis
The term means the sand as Stat ✔✔Med emergency
Which liquid is acceptable to drink when one is fasting ✔✔Water
Which is a common test postop ✔✔H&H (hemiglobin and hematocrit)
A patient's arm is swollen. The term for this is ✔✔Edematous
Lipemia results from ✔✔High fat content from the blood
A patient with a high degree of jaundice typically had ✔✔Yellow skin and sclerace
Lymphostasis is ✔✔Obstruction of the flow of lymph
Venous stasis ✔✔Stoppage of the normal venous blood flow
What produce breaks down red blood cells ✔✔Bilirubin
The serum or plasma of lipemic specimen appears ✔✔Cloudy white
A lipemic specimen is a clue that the patient ✔✔Was not fasting
A 12 hour fast is normal required in testing for this analyte ✔✔Triglycerides (calcium)
A blood smear ✔✔Blood spread out on a microscope slide
This is the abbreviation for a pulmonary function test ✔✔CBG
A differential test is usable to determine ✔✔Packed cell volume
A new patient had not received service from the physician out from another physician of the same specialty in the same group practice ✔✔Three years
The abbreviation for PPSH is ✔✔Past, family, and/or social history
If a participating provider's usual fee $400 and the allowed about is $350 what is written of ✔✔$
Which is not a commonly used transmission method for HIPAA claims ✔✔Fax
Medicare part A covers ✔✔Hospital services
The form that must be signed by a patient in order for a physician to send records to another physician is ✔✔Release of information
All entries written into the medical record or notation or a ledger must be ✔✔Initiated by the person making the entry
