bundled Navy Hospital Corpsman, HCB Test questions and answers 2024

Surgeon Steward - First enlisted rate requiring specific qualification Article 16 - A convenient place shall be set apart for sick or hurt men Ship's Surgeon - trained physician surgeon's mate - usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon March 2, 1799 - Congress mandated that newly...

the passageway by which air enters and leaves the body - airway a prehospital assessment that is the first step in the total assessment of the patient - primary assessment a prehospital assessment that is a rapid assessment of the head, chest, abdomen, pelvis, extremities, and posterior of the...

movement of the limbs towards the lateral plane or away from the axial line of a limb - abduction movement of the limbs toward the medial plane of the body or the axial line of a limb - adduction fracture in which the broken bone segments are at an angle to each other - angulated fracture w...

kidneys are said to be - retroperitoneal located between the levels of the last thoracic and third lumbar vertebral a position where they are partially protected by ribs 11 and 12 - kidneys what do the kidneys do? - filter blood excrete waste products maintain fluid balance an analysis o...

Surgeon Steward - First enlisted rate requiring specific qualification Article 16 - A convenient place shall be set apart for sick or hurt men Ship's Surgeon - trained physician surgeon's mate - usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon March 2, 1799 - Congress mandated that newly...

no breathing - apnea bluish discoloration of the skin - cyanosis the process by which molecules move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration - diffusion difficult and labored breathing; shortness of breath - dyspnea a deficiency of oxygen reaching the tissu...

sometimes called cardiac compromise, is a blanket term that refers to any time the not getting enough oxygen - acute coronary syndrome (acs) a decrease in certain elements of the blood, especially red cells and hemoglobin - anemia pain in the chest occurring when blood supply to the heart is r...

Which of the following is not a cellular function? - Combustion - All living cells must absorb and metabolize sources of energy, excrete waste and by-products of those processes, and reproduce to continue offspring. Pyrotechnic processes (i.e. combustion) are generally metaphorical. What are mi...