Pharmacology
Which disease must a person have in order to need to consult a doctor before taking OTC meds?
Heart disease
The X-Ray was discovered in 1895 by ...
William Konrad Roentgen
An autoclave is used for ...
Sterilization
What are three types of insurance in a medical practice?
Medical malpractice, liability, and personal injury
Who interprets an EKG?
The provider or cardiologist
This is assigned to a drug by the manufacturer for marketing
Trade name
In an all-liquid diet, patients may have ...
Plain coffee or tea, clear gelatin desserts, and strained fruit juice
When washing your hands, you should distribute soap using circular motions for at least how many seconds?
20 seconds
What are some signs of abuse?
Frequent injuries that require medical attention, apparent malnutrition, etc.,
Ventricular fibrillation is commonly seen in patients with what disease?
Heart disease
What's the purpose of the Physician's Desk Reference?
To provide accurate, current, reliable, and current information about most prescribed medications and related products
During an upper GI series, the radiologist observes the flow of the contrast medium with what instrument?
A fluoroscope
The CDC releases the Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization schedules every ...
Year
Medications given by what routes reach the blood stream quicker than other routes?
Injection
An ECG tracing takes how long, and on what size of ECG paper?
1 minute ; 8 x 10
What type of drugs interfere with the central nervous system's recognition of pain impulses; and sometimes cause respiratory depression as well as provide a greater level of pain relief than analgesics?
Narcotics
Patients over what age should be instructed to routinely test their stool for blood ever year to detect cancer of the colon?
Patients over age 50
What is commonly known as whooping cough?
Pertussis
In most states, the disposal of controlled substances requires witness of destruction by who?
Licensed pharmacists, nurses, or law enforcement
How many seconds is a large and small square on an ECG paper?
Large = 0.2 , Small = .04
What is required to be included on a prescription?
Practitioners name and address, number of refills, and a checkbox that indicates whether it should be dispensed as written (DAW).
What x-ray is used to diagnose urinary system diseases and disorders. determining the position of an IUD, and locating foreign bodies in the digestive tract?
KUB (kidneys, ureters, bladder)
When a person with a cold, coughs or sneezes, the vapor containing the microorganism causing the illness can travel up to ...
3 feet
What is the physician self-referral?
The practice of a physician referring a patient to a medical facility in which they have a financial interest, be it ownership, investment, or a structured compensation arrangement, in which critics claim is a conflict of interest.
Atrial fibrillation produces a heart rate that can range from ...
400 to 500 BPM