CCMA Certification study
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Denning [Date] [Course title]
, Chief complaint CC - Correct Answers The reason a patient called for help. Also, the patient's response to
questions such as "What's wrong?" or "What happened?"
History of present illness HPI - Correct Answers Explains the chief complaint. A chronological description
of the development of the patient's present illness from the first sign or symptom or from the previous
encounter to the present.
Vital Signs - Correct Answers Temperature, pulse, respiration, and Blood pressure are all ___________
___________.
Normal oral temperature - Correct Answers 97.6F - 99.6F
intermittent fever - Correct Answers Fever that alternates between elevated and normal or subnormal
body temperatures.
Remittent fever - Correct Answers fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly but never falls to the
normal level.
Continuous fever - Correct Answers A fever that remains constant above the baseline, does not
fluctuate.
60-100 BPM - Correct Answers Normal pulse rate
Respirations - Correct Answers Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account when measuring what?
Systole - Correct Answers contraction of the heart
Diastole - Correct Answers relaxation of the heart
Anthropometric measurements - Correct Answers Measurement of height, (length rather than height is
used in infants because they cannot stand.), weight, BMI, head circumference in infants, waist to hip, %
of body fat.
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