Career Skills in Diagnostic Services (Chapter 10)

A pulse measurement is taken by placing two or three fingers over the radial artery on the inside of the wrist.

• noninvasive procedure

• audiometer

• stamina

• radial pulse

An opthalmologist is an eye specialist.

• True

• False

A pulse measurement is taken by listening over the apex (lower tip) of the heart using a stethoscope.

• phlebotomist

• hypertension

• apical pulse

• cardiac arrest

A medical assistant who helps draw blood and receives specimens for testing is a phlebotomist.

• True

• False

A medical emergency in which blood flow to a part of the brain is cut off.

• nuclear medicine technologists

• stethoscope

• cardiac arrest

• stroke

The device that delivers an electric shock to the heart to restore its normal rhythm is not the automated external defibrillator (AED).

• True

• False

Diagnostic services workers do not help determine diagnoses through clinical tests and medical imaging.

• True

• False

All of these are personal traits for diagnostic service workers except______.

• The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations

• Not able to work accurately and reliably

• A problem-solving mindset

• Interest in operating machines

A diagnostic service worker does not need to have the ability to follow detailed instructions and organize data in precise ways.

• True

• False

A radiographer (radiologic technicians)

–Produce X-ray images of the human body

• True

• False

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