Medical Terminology
CPR is the abbreviation for this life-saving emergency procedure
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
What HIPAA stands for
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
This type of study follows a group of people over time to track how exposures affect disease outcomes
What is a cohort study?
ATP is known as the cell’s main source of this
What is energy?
The first thing you should do when arriving at a CPR scene
What is assess the scene?
The meaning of the term hysterectomy
What is the surgical removal of the uterus?
The failure of a healthcare professional to use the degree of skill expected, resulting in harm, is this
What is malpractice?
This measure of disease frequency tells us the number of new cases in a population during a given period
What is incidence?
The bonds that hold amino acids together in proteins are called this
What are peptide bonds?
The correct ratio of compressions to breaths for adult CPR
What is 30:2?
The combining form dermat/o relates to this body system
What is the integumentary system?
The professional code (oath) that guides doctors’ ethical behavior is called this
What is the hippocratic oath?
John Snow is often called the “father of epidemiology” after linking this disease to a contaminated water pump in 1854 London
What is cholera?
The structure of a protein most directly determined by amino acid sequence is this level
What is primary structure?
Where you should place your hands during CPR
What is the end of the sternum?
The suffix for breathing
What is -pnea?
The type of consent implied when a patient rolls up their sleeve for a blood draw is this
What is implied consent?
This rate measures the proportion of people who die from a specific disease among all those diagnosed with it
What is the case fatality rate?
In cellular respiration, the electron transport chain takes place in this part of the mitochondrion
What is the inner mitochondrial membrane?
How often should you switch during 2-person CPR
What is 2 minutes (or 5 rounds of CPR)?
The suffix “-stenosis” refers to this condition.
What is narrowing/constriction?
A patient who shares medical information on social media has effectively waived this legal protection
What is confidentiality?
This type of bias occurs when the relationship between an exposure and outcome is distorted by a third variable related to both
What is confounding?
The enzyme that synthesizes RNA from a DNA template is called this
What is RNA polymerase?
The point of CPR where you use an AED
What is immediately after compressions?