Medical Field Basics
The manner in which we interact with a patient is known as:
Possible answers: talking, sign language, communication, writing
What is Communication
The abbreviation HR stands for
What is heart rate
Blood cells are manufactured in the:
possible answers: cartilage, tendons, periosteum, bone marrow
What is bone marrow
The systolic pressure is considered:
possible answers: the lowest point of pressure, highest point of pressure, mid point of pressure
What is Highest point of pressure
Which microcollection container/tube would be used to collect a CBC
possible answers: red, gray, green, lavender
what is lavender
If you give the wrong information on a job application this is known as
Possible answers: Libel, Defamation, Fraud, Slander
What is Fraud
This term means located at or toward the front of the body
What is Anterior
This is NOT part if the digestive system:
possible answers: mouth, esophagus, larynx, the stomach
what is larynx
The rate of the heart in the AV junction/node is
20-40, 40-60, 100-120, 60-100
What is 40-60
It is important to mix anticoagulant immediately after filling them in order to:
possible answers: encourage coagulation, inhibit hemoconcentration, minimize hemolysis, prevent microclot formation
What is microclot formation
Knowledge of right and wrong conduct is
Possible answers: Torts, Ethics, Civil Law, Public law
What is ethics
The abbreviation QID means
possible answer: twice per day, three times per day, four times per day, every night at bed time
What is four times a day
The pancreas secretes:
possible answers: parathyroid hormone, epinephrine and norepinephrine, insulin, adrenocorticotropic
What is Insulin
Which vessels carry blood away from the heart
Possible answers: arteries, veins, capillaries, venules
What is arteries
Sputum samples are typically collected to diagnose:
possible answers: gastric function, meningitis, H. Pylori, Tuberculosis
What is tuberculosis
The failure to provide a patient with adequate and appropriate care that results in suffering and harm as a result of this failure
What is Negligence
The prefix Myo Means
possible answers: spinal cord, eye, muscle, straight/normal/correct
What is muscle
The hips and shoulders are
possible answers: pivotal joints, hinge joints, ball and socket, ligament joints
What is ball and socket
Which heart chamber pumps blood to all parts of the body
Possible answers: right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle
What is the left ventricle
Which type of specimen should be protected from light
possible answers: amniotic fluid, sputum, cerebrospinal fluid, tissue biopsy
what is amniotic fluid
This occurs when a hospital, doctor or other health care professional, through a negligent act or omission, causes an injury to a patient. The negligence might be the result of errors in diagnosis, treatment, aftercare or health management.
What is malpractice
The suffix -rrhage means
possible answers: discharge, stitching, drooping, excessive flow
What is excessive flow
this system is stimulated when you are excited, exercising or scared:
possible answers: the central nervous system, the autonomic nervous system, the sympathetic system, the parasympathetic nervous system
what is the sympathetic nervous system
The PR interval begins at the first sign of the P wave and ends at the first sign of the next deflection which is called the:
possible answers: QRS complex, PR segment, AV node, T Wave
what is the QRS complex
which specimen needs to be chilled
ammonia, bilirubin, cold agglutinin, sodium
what is ammonia