Pharmacology
Prep/Admin Medication
Diagnostic Imaging
Emergencies
Medical Terminology
100
The first name given to any medication.
What is the chemical name?
100
This is the most common system of measurement used in the medical office.
What is the metric system?
100
This specialist is responsible for prescribing and monitoring the effects of radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer.
Who is a radiologist?
100
This device is used to immobilize a sprain, fracture, or dislocated limb.
What is a splint?
100
This flap of tissue prevents food from being inhaled into the lungs.
What is the epiglottis?
200
The authority of this government agency extends to the prescribing, refilling, and storing of controlled substances.
What is the DEA?
200
This scale is used to estimate body surface area to calculate pediatric dosages.
What is a nomogram?
200
This diagnostic imaging technique uses x-rays to observe movement within the body.
What is fluoroscopy?
200
This alternate word for fainting describes a brief loss of consciousness.
What is syncope?
200
This valve regulates the passage of food into the small intestine.
What is the pyloric sphincter?
300
This type of interaction occurs when one drug decreases the effect of another.
What is antagonism?
300
These injections are given into the fatty tissue below the skin.
What are subcutaneous injections?
300
This nuclear medicine study uses specialized equipment to produce detailed sectional images of the body's physiologic processes.
What is positron emission tomography or PET?
300
A secondary assessment evaluates signs in these 4 areas.
What are general appearance, level of consciousness, vital signs, and skin?
300
Long-term smoking can damage the alveoli, causing this pulmonary disease.
What is emphysema?
400
Reactions to medications that need NOT be recorded in the patient's allergy list.
What are side effects?
400
These six rights should be followed every time you give a medication.
What are the right individual, the right medication, the right dose, the right time, the right route, and the right documentation?
400
This term describes the body part as seen by an x-ray film or other recording medium.
What is the radiographic view?
400
This is the primary cause of death from anaphylactic shock.
What is swelling that causes airway obstruction?
400
This type of surgery visually examines the abdominal cavity.
What is laparoscopy?
500
This abbreviation is used when no substitute should be given for a medication.
What is DAW or "dispense as written"?
500
This is the 2nd check you should do when giving a medication.
What is checking the prescription label against the medication order (before pouring the medication)?
500
This device helps to protect health care workers by recording the amount of radiation to which they have been exposed.
What is a dosimeter?
500
This method is used to estimate the body surface area burned.
What is the rule of nines?
500
In later stages of this disease, patients may display jaundice and experience liver failure.
What is cirrhosis?
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