Water Supplies
Protective Systems
Nozzles and Fire Streams
Back to the Basics
Advancing It
100
An underground water tank made from natural rock or concrete
What is a cistern?
100
A system that has automatic sprinklers attached to pipes with water under constant pressure.
What is a wet pipe system?
100
The pressure required for effective nozzle operation and relates to flow and reach.
What is Nozzle Pressure
100
Green in color, seemless steel or aluminum cylinder.
What is an oxygen cylinder?
100
Given a 100cc bag of normal saline, 400 mg of dopamine when mixed the concentration per ml.
What is 4000 mcg?
200
Used in areas where freezing temperatures could damage a hydrant.
What is a dry barrel hydrant
200
Operates by detecting the heat of a fire at a fixed temperature or as the rising temperature builds at a rapid rate.
What is a heat detector?
200
Appliance that allow the application of the extinguishing agent.
What is a nozzle?
200
The upper tract or passage above the larynx, which includes the nose, mouth and throat.
What is an airway?
200
After insertion into a vein of muscle and prior to administering a medication this is completed to ensure proper administration of the medication if performed.
What is aspiration?
300
The pumping of water from a static source by taking advantage of atmospheric presure to force water from teh source into the pump.
What is drafting?
300
A control valve that is mounted on a post case with a small window, reading either "OPEN" or "SHUT".
What is a Post Indicator Valve (PIV)?
300
Originally designed to penetrate the skin of aircraft and now has been modified to pierce through building walls and floors.
What is a piercing nozzle?
300
A device with a face mask attached to a ventilation bag containing a reservior and connected to oxygen.
What is a bag valve mask (BVM)?
300
This is maintained between 35 and 40 torr and is monitored using capnography.
What is carbon dioxide?
400
The pressure exerted by the atmosphere, which for earth is 14.7 pounds per square inch at sea level.
What is Atmospheric Pressure?
400
Piping system that allows for the manual application of water in large buildings.
What is a stand pipe system?
400
A device capable of flowing over 350 gpm.
What is a master stream?
400
An injury in which soft tissue is torn completely loose or is hanging as a flap.
What is an avulsion?
400
When provided, this class of medication slows the rate at which calcium enters the cells of the heart and blood vessels and is used to lower blood pressure, control atrial fibrillation and chest pains.
What is a calcium channel blocker (Cardizem, Diltiazem)
500
The amount of pressure in a system after water flow has begun to flow.
What is residual pressure?
500
Protective system designed to automatically distribute water through spriklers placed at set intervals on a system to extinguish or control fires.
What is a sprinkler system?
500
Used to attack the fire by aiming the flow of water directly at the seat of the fire.
What is direct fire attack?
500
A method of evaluating the level of consciousness that uses a scoring system for neurologic responses to specfic stimuli.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)?
500
A cardiac Rhythm identified when the rhythm originates in or around the AV node/
What is a Junctional Rhythm?
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