Medical Assistant Test

Front 1

81. Most popular bookkeeping system:

Back 1

Pegboard

Front 2

82. When a baffling term is encountered:

Back 2

Consult a dictionary

Front 3

83. Unacceptable procedure for a fainting victim:

Back 3

Pour water over victim's face

Front 4

84. For heavy bleeding from a forearm wound:

Back 4

Apply direct pressure

Front 5

85. To communicate telephone courtesy:

Back 5

Answer promptly, identify yourself and ask how you can help them

Front 6

86. Patient complaining of chest pain collapses in the office:

Back 6

No pulse, no breathing, start CPR

Front 7

87. Patient calls with a blunt injury to the eye. Advise them:

Back 7

Come in as soon as possible

Front 8

88. Heredity angioedema:

Back 8

Acute laryngeal edeme with urticaria

Front 9

89. Characteristics of infantile eczema:

Back 9

Red, raised, pruritic, scaling of cheeks, scalp and diaper area

Front 10

90. Critical illness resulting in sudden cessation of kidney function:

Back 10

Renal failure

Front 11

91. Patient at high risk for hemolytic reactions to transfused blood have been sensitized by prior:

Back 11

Pregnancy.
Transfusions.
RBC antigens

Front 12

92. Alternating periods of diarrhea and constipation:

Back 12

Spastic Colon

Front 13

93. Causes Serum sickness:

Back 13

Occurs after administrating foreign serums to human beings.

Front 14

94. Most common type of headache:

Back 14

Tension

Front 15

95. Lift or heave is raise with each heartbeat of:

Back 15

Sternum

Front 16

96. Least expected functional change with acute myocardial infarction:

Back 16

Decrease in left ventricular end diastolic pressure

Front 17

97. Quick rising and collapsing pulse (waterhammer) is characteristic of:

Back 17

Mitral stenosis

Front 18

98. SLow rising and sustained carotid pulse:

Back 18

Aortic stenosis

Front 19

99. Adult hypertension is a blood pressure greater than:

Back 19

140 / 90

Front 20

100. Frequent loose stools:

Back 20

Diarrhea