Test review ob/gyn,first aid ect

Growth graphs aid in the diagnosis of growth abnormalities,nutritinal disorders and diseases of children from birth to age?

18

At what age can an infant first role from the back to the side?

2 to 4 months

After removing sutures and bandaging the site, you should instruct the patient to keep the bandage clean and dry for ____ hours

24 to 48

Autoclaved items remain sterile if they have been properly processed and protected from moisture for ____ days

30

The american cancer society recommends offering women older then ___ the option of Pap screening every 3 years, plus the HPV, DNA test

30

A normal pregnancy can range from _____ weeks

37-41

A patient preparing for a Pap test should be instruted not to douche for ___ hours prior to the test

48

If a patient sprains an ankle ice should be applied for the first ___ hours or until the swelling is reduced

48 to 72

With all human bites, a tetanus injection must be adminstered to patients if they have not received one within ____ years

5

Age at which imitation of speech sounds typically begins

6 to 8 months

Age at which an infant typically learns to respond to verbal commands

8 to 10 months

Female patients can typically get a pap test from?

A gynecologist and a general family practitioner

Staples are removed with a device known as?

A staple extractor

This statement is false

A surgical instruments Function can often be determined by visual inspection

Sutureless closures are?

A type of adhesive material

Scrape of the epidermis with dots of blood and the possible presance of foreign material such as dirt or gravel

Abrasion

Inflicting emotional,physical or sexual injury

Abuse

When assisting with this type of procedure, preperation of the skin is simply to apply a product such as alchol

Acupuncture

This is not a chemical agent commonly used to sterilized certain surgical instruments

Dihydrogen monoxide

Probes

Dilating/ probing

Retractors

Dilating/probing

Scopes

Dilating/probing

Specula

Dilating/probing

When measuring a child's chest circumference the measuring tape should be placed?

Directly over the nipples

Item that maybe kept near the front desk in case a child becomes sick in the reception area and vomits

Disposable emesis basin

When assisting with suturing a laceration, after bandaging the site you should remove your gloves and?

Dispose of them in a biohazardous waste bag

Process in which sterilization is accomplished by rasing the temprature of surgical instruments to the designated tempruature that renders them sterile

Dry heat

Female patients should be instructed to perform breast self-examinations?

Each month following there menstrual period

Medicaids comprehensive and preventive child health program

Early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment program

Used to control bleeding during a procedure

Electrocautery

Often used to control bleeding of the surgical site

Electrocoagulation

Removal of beginin skin lesions by use of a electric current

Electrosurgery

A sprained wrist should be?

Elevated for 2 to 3 days

Compared to traditional surgery, when patients undergo laparoscopic surgery

Costs are reduced

Used to hold a dressing in place on the forehead,eyes or ears

Cravat

Destruction of tissue and skin lesions using extremely cold temperatures

Cryosurgery

Whatctype of information is not typically required on a cytology request form?

Date of the patients first mammogram

Fragments or portions of the bone pressed down into the skull, can be into the brain and surrounding tissue

Depressed

An infants ability to control his or her body and use verbal and mental skills

Development

Serious disease in which there is an absence of one of the nessary clotting factors for blood to coagulate

Hemophilia

Significantly influances growth patterns,making it important to have a complete family health history in the medical record

Heredity

At 5 months a typical infant can?

Hold a bottle

Which of the following is not a sign of a vison deficiency in a child?

Holding books at arms length away when reading

Known risk factor for developing cervical cancer

Human papillomavirus (HPV)

Can indicate complications in a pregnant patient

Hypertension

Alternative for patients who are allergic to adhesive

Hypoallergenic tape

The only first aid measure for a dislocation is to ___ the affected area and get to a medical office or hospital

Immobilize

One bone fragment is wedged into another bone fragment

Impacted

Wound caused by sharp object that leaves a clean cut

Incision

When using a Snellen chart, the child

Indicates with the fingers which way the big "E" os facing

During a patients first prenatal vist a CBC will be performed to check her ____ level and screen for infection

Iron

This should not be worn during surgical procedure because it harbors microbes

Jewelry

Using Naegele's rule if the first day of a pregnant womans last menstrual period was october 14, her expected date od delivery is?

July 21st

At 12 to 15 months, a child typically cannot yet

Jump in place

Tearing of body tissue

Laceration

Closing a wound or laceration by placing sutures, stiches, or staples in the skin to hold the edges of the wound togeather for proper healing

Laceration repair

Type of classes that teach patients about the childbirth process

Lamaze

Using a concentrated laser beam to destroy a target area without harming the surrounding tissue

Laser surgery

Ferning markings on a patients body are charcteristics of burns caused by?

Lightning

This is commonly used in cyrosurgery to destroy tissue?

Liquid nitrogen

When you assist a patient into the stirrups during a gynecological exam, you are helping her get into the ____ postion

Lithotomy

Causes a loss of sensation in a specific area of the body

Local anesthesia

When taking a patients medical history prior to a surgical procedure, if the patient discloses a family history of hemophilia you should?

Mark this information in red ink on the patients chart

Used to hold instruments during a surgical procedure

Mayo tray

On subsequent prenatal visits the medical assistant does not typically ____ before the patient is seen by the provider?

Measure the height of the fundus

Aims to reduce the number of microbes associated with diseases

Medical asepsis

This must be documented thoroughly and should be completed after an episode of care

Medical record

Method of determining a pregnants patients estimated date of delivery

Neageles rule

Asperation of fluid or tissue cells into a syringe for microscopic examination

Needle biopsy

Pap test result that means there are no signs of cancer or precancerous changes

Negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy

Lack or withholding of care

Neglect

Used to cut off the barb when removing a fishhook embedded in a patients skin

Nipper pliers

Diagonal fracture of a bone

Oblique

Type of pratice that focuses on pregnancy and childbirth

Obstetrics

A ____ needle holder is used to grasp suture needles

Olsen Hegar

When a provider recommends moist heat, the standard instruction is?

On for 20 minutes and off for 10

Open wound over the ends of the fractured bones, often an end of the bone visble

Open

Pap test result that means an invasive squamous cell cancer is likely

Other malignant neoplasams

Number of live births a patient has had

Para

Second-degree burn

Partial-thickness burn

Breast lumps are most often discovered by the?

Patient

Water should not be used to try to remove a ___ that becomes lodged in a persons ear

Pea

A medical speicalty that cares for children from birth until essentially adulthood

Pediatrics

Providers use this to compare a childs measurements in relation to those of other same-age children

Percentile

Local anesthesia is administered by the?

Physician

Surgical instruments should be placed in a container made of ____ to prevent damage to their points and cutting edges

Plastic

AutoCyte,a new liquid-based form of Pap testing, involves collecting the sample with a?

Plastic broom

When a wound has been bleeding severely, a ___ should be applied securely and the patient taken for emergency medical care immediately

Pressure bandage

If a foreign body is loged under the upper eye lid, it may be possible for a medical assistant to remove it by?

Pulling the upper lid down over the lower lid

Wound made with pointed object such as an ice pick, knife or nail

Puncture wound

Animal bites are considered dangerous because of the possibility of infection or the transmission of?

Rabies

Locking mechanism designed to close in varying degrees to hold the instrument closed

Ratchet

On the day of surgery, a patient should not wear?

Restrictive clothing

At 24 months a child can typically?

Ride a tricycle and jump with both feet

Designed to allow the thumb and finger to be inserted into the rings

Ring handle

Surgical instruments should be soaked in a ___ solution containing a detergent and a solvent immediately after each use

Room-temprature

At age 18 months a child can typically?

Say 4 to 6 words

Female patients should be instructed to?

Schedual a routine mammography if they are over the age of 40

Excision of a small painless sac containing a buildup of sebum, the secretion from s sebaceous gland

Sebaceous cyst removal

What is considered a moderate burn?

Second-degree burn covering 20% of an adults body

Helps to keep sick children isolated from the well children while they wait to see the provider

Separate reception area

Little fissures engraved into the surface of the blades of hemostats and forceps designed to prevent slippage

Serrations

Catgut is made from intestines of?

Sheep

This should contain a speical protein that brakes down blood and body fluids on the surface of surgical instruments

Soaking solution

Sterilization can occur via all but which of the following methods?

Soap and hot water

An injury on the arms or legs will require the dressing to be held in place with a ____ bandage

Spiral

Fracture twists around the long bone

Spiral

Usally the result of overuse or trama from twisting the joint

Sprain

Reaching over this will contaminiate it

Sterile drape

Somthing that must be worn by anyone assisting in surgery

Sterile gown

Splinters can generally be removed with ___ and splinter forceps

Sterile needle

A break in this can result in an infection for the patient

Sterile technique

Which of the following terms is defined as the process of destroying all disease-causing microorganisms?

Sterlization

Common after engaging in any strenuous activity that one is not accustomed to doing

Strain

Drapes are designed to prevent the spread of bacteria and this

Strikethrough

First degree burn

Superficial burn

Maybe nessary to keep the skin togeather after sutures have been removed, until a wound js completely healed

Support skin closure

Total removal of all microbes associated with diseases

Surgical asepsis

Type of thread that is user to join skin of a wound togeather

Suture

Very sharp projections designed to hold the tissue when grasping

Teeth

After removing staples from a patient, the emergency centers report should be checked for a _____ booster

Tetanus

To collect a specimen from the infected wound, you insert ____ into the center of the infected area of the wound

The tip of a sterile cotton swab

Liquid-based Pap test

ThinPrep

Similar to the handle of a tweezers that is sqeezed between the thumb and finger

Thumb handle

Operating scissors are used to cut

Tissue

Removal of the cervix and uterus

Total hysterectomy

Fracture crosses the bone at a 90-degree angle to the bones axis

Transverse

What is not a common surgical position?

Trendelenberg

Period of three months

Trimester

Patients should be instructed not to take a shower or bath without physician's approval when they have a wound on the?

Trunk (torso)

Maybe performed to confirm pregnancy and to monitor its progress

Ultrasonography

Forceps

Used for clamping or grasping

Scaples

Used for cutting

Scissors

Used for cutting

When a Pap smear is performed,samples are taken from all but which of the following parts of the body?

Uterus

Documents the possible side effects of an immunization

Vaccination information statement (VIS)

When measuring a childs head circumference the measurement should be read to the nearest

1/4 inch

When using a AutoCyte, the collection device is swished how many times in the preservative solution?

10

Age at which an infant typically speaks gibberish

10 to 12 months

A routine hand washing for medical asepsis should take ___ seconds

15

Screening test performed to check for neural tube defects

Alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP)

Prior to surgery, a patients skin should be prepped with?

An antiseptic

Applied to a patients skin prior to surgery to reduce microbial growth

Antiseptic

Used almost immediately after birth to obtain an indication of the newborns well-being

Apgar scoring system

Which of the following is a symptom of neglect?

Apparent malnutrition

The process of maintaining sterility throughout a surgical procedure is called ___ technique

Aseptic

Infants typically begin their journey through the pediatricians office?

At 1 to 2 weeks

A pap test should be scheduled ____ the menstrual period

At least five days after

Estabilishment of a postive parent child relationship through examining,touching,cuddling, and expressions

Attachment

Wound in which the skin is torn off and there is profuse bleeding

Avulsion

Which type of foreceps are used to grasp towels and dressings and hold drape towels in place?

Backhaus

Toys in the play area of the reception area should

Be washable

Sutures that are not removed can?

Become infected

An Apagar sore ____ requires immediate intervention and continued evaluation

Below 4

The most common local anesthetic agents are?

Benzocaine and Novocaine

The system most widely used to describe Pap test findings is known as the?

Bethesda System

Exision of a small amount of tissue for microscopic examinination

Biopsy

Typically included during the patients annual appointment for the Pap test and pelvic exam

Breast exam

When conducting a gynecological examination,a provider usally performs which of the following first?

Brief general check of the patient

The Papanicolaou (Pap) technique is a cytologic screening test that detects?

Cancer

After removing sutures, you should record all but which of the following in the progress notes in the patients chart?

Cause of the incision

Referring to the entrance to the uterus

Cervical

Before removing sutures, you should not do this

Check report for a heptitis b booster

A ___ burn is caused by contact with, ingestion, inhalation or injection of acids or alkalines

Chemical

Destruction of tissue by applying silver nitrate

Chemical destruction

This is not a measurement commonly obtained at well-child vists

Circumference of the abdomen

Clamps

Clamping and grasping

Hemostats

Clamping or grasping

Needle holders

Clamping or grasping

Skin intact over the fracture, the bone is completely broken into two or more pieces

Closed

Cyrosurgery is sometimes referred to as?

Cold cautery

Fracture of the distal end of the radius bone in the wrist

Colles

Crushing or splintering of the bone

Comminuted

Accomplished with an ACE wrap or ankle brace

Compression

Must be completed when patient arrives for surgery

Consent form

Medicaids comprehensive and preventive child health program does not include what services?

Cosmetic surgery

Substance that is sometimes added to a local anesthetic to help constrict blood vessels in the area, prolonging the effect of the anesthetic

Epinephrine

Pap test result that means the cells of the linning layer of the cervix show changes that might be cancer or a precancerous condition

Epithelial cell abnormalities

Approximate date of delivery

Estimated date of confinement (EDC)

After beginning the immunization schedule infants are usally examined?

Every 2 to 3 months for the first 18 months

How often does the CDC release Recommended Childhood and Adolesent Immunization Schedules for the children in the United States

Every three years

Occurs when an infant or young child is below the third precentile on standardized growth charts

Failure to thrive (FTT)

Often reccomended prior to surgery to lessen the possiblity of nausea and vomitting

Fasting

A _____ is a special stethoscope used to determine the heart rate of a developing fetus

Fetoscope

A wound on the palm or the back of the hand should be protected with a dressing and a ___ bandage

Figure-eight

Used to remove objects children put in there noses

Forceps

Substance or object that becomes lodged in any part of the human body

Foreign body

The laboratory provides a ___ solution container for the preservation of tissue specimens for biopsy

Formalin

Which of the following is a sign of abuse?

Frequent injuries requiring medical attention

Third or forth degree burn

Full thickness burn

Obeserved by watching a child from behind as he or she walks to the caregiver

Gait

When assisting in surgery, what should you use to mop excessive blood?

Gauze sponges

Patients usally go to a ____ for a suture removal

General practitioner

Screening test performed to check for gestational diabetes

Glucose tolerance test

Addison foreceps are used to?

Grasp delicate tissue

Number of pregnancies a patient has had

Gravida

Bone partially bent and partically broken,often occurs in children

Greenstick

Changes in height and weight that can be measured as an infant begins to mature

Growth

Aids in the diagnosis of growth abnormalities, nutritional disorders and dieases of children and becomes a permenent record of a childs development

Growth chart

Type of pratice that adresses diseases and disorders of the female reproductive system

Gynecology

Designed to inhabit and kill bacteria but should not take the place of proper hand washing

Hand antiseptics

Obeserved by watching a childs reaction to surrounding sounds

Hearing

These can be altered if a patient has lost a considerable amount of blood

Vital signs

Its customary to weight infants

Wearing only a diaper

Allows microorganisms to enter the tiny openings where sutures were removed until they are healed

Wet dressing