OSHA & Medical Asepsis
When hands are visibly soiled, this method must be used instead of alcohol-based hand rub.
This is the normal resting pulse range for an adult.
What are the patient's full name and date of birth?
A standard Snellen visual acuity test is performed from this distance.
What is 20 feet?
This range is considered a healthy oxygen saturation level for most individuals.
What is 95% to 99%?
This term describes a person whose body cannot effectively fight off a pathogen.
What is a susceptible host?
This part of the brain acts as the body's heat-regulating center.
What is the hypothalamus?
This instrument is used to examine the interior of the eye.
What is an ophthalmoscope?
This condition makes it difficult to see objects at a distance.
What is myopia?
For an adult, a blood pressure below this value is considered normal.
What is 120/80 mmHg?
A safety engineered needle is this type of workplace protection because it physically removes or reduces a hazard.
What is an engineering control?
An axillary temperature is generally about this much lower than an oral temperature.
What is 1 degree Fahrenheit?
A breast examination is an example of this examination technique.
What is palpation?
To straighten an adult's external auditory canal, pull the auricle in these directions.
What are upward and backward?
A patient has a blood pressure of 110/70 mmHg. this is the patient's pulse pressure.
What is 40 mmHg?
Blood splashes into the MA's eye during a procedure. This is the first action the medical assistant should take.
What is immediately flush the eye at an eye wash station?
This fever pattern has wide temperature fluctuations, but all readings remain above normal.
What is a remittent fever?
This process determines which of two or more diseases with similar symptoms is causing a patient's illness.
What is a differential diagnosis?
During the Weber test, sound is louder in the affected ear. This type of hearing loss is suggested.
What is conductive hearing loss?
On a correctly sized BP cuff the index line should fall here.
What is between the two range lines?
A patient with influenza contaminates an exam table. A medical assistant touches the table and then rubs an eye. In the chain of infection, the eye serves as this link.
What is the portal of entry?
A trained runner has a resting pulse of 54 bpm and no symptoms. This is the best interpretation of the finding.
What is that the pulse may be normal for a trained athlete?
A patient's long-standing hypertension has changed very little over several years. The illness is classified this way.
What is chronic?
Placing ophthalmic drops directly onto this sensitive structure is an error.
What is the cornea?
A patient's BP changes from 124/78 while sitting to 96/60 while standing, and the patient becomes dizzy. This condition should be suspected.
What is postural or orthostatic hypotension?