What's my age again?
The easiest and quickest way to assess circulation in a pediatric patient.
What is capillary refill?
This is an appropriate description of a Mass-Casualty Incident (MCI).
What is any event that places excessive demand on rescue personnel and equipment?
Definition of a hazardous material from an EMT perspective.
What is any substance that poses a threat to life or property?
The purpose of the primary assessment.
What is identifying and managing life threats?
The acronym for the standard process used during on-scene management of a disaster or MCI.
What is ICS?
This triangle-based system helps EMTs from a first impression of a pediatric patient.
What is the Pediatric Assessment Triangle?
The appropriate color triage tag for a 70-year old male with a respiratory rate of 42/min and a rapid/weak radial pulse.
What is a red tag?
The full terminology of the acronym B-NICE.
What is Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical, and Explosive?
You must have these two components to state a patient has adequate breathing.
What are adequate rate and tidal volume?
The number of leads and images an views a 12-lead EKG creates.
What are ten leads and 12 views?
Your partner tells you your 4-year-old patient has a systolic BP of 110mmHg. How would you respond?
What is that this is a normal BP for this age range?
This must be done while working in the "warm" zone.
What is wearing appropriate PPE and decontaminating before leaving?
Level of Haz Mat training from least to most qualified?
What is first responder awareness, first responder operations, haz mat technician, and haz mat specialist?
The most appropriate time to call for additional resources.
What is before exiting the ambulance?
A blue NFPA placard with a "4" and a red placard with a "1" indicates this.
What is a high health hazard but low flammability?
Which is the correct cause of fontanelles lower than the level of the skull?
What is dehydration?
An MCI section described as a parking lot three blocks from the incident with 7 ambulances waiting.
What is the staging unit/area?
3 primary ways to reduce radiation exposure.
What is time, distance, and shielding?
What are the suprasternal notch, the intercostal spaces, and the supraclavicular spaces.
Radiation rays in order from most to least damaging.
What is Gamma, then Beta, and Alpha last?
One reason why elderly patients will withhold information from medical personnel?
What is fear of losing their independence?
The type of chemical agent that will kill a person most rapidly.
What is an inhaled vesicant?
The length of time a patient with radiation sickness is expected to have symptoms.
What is 7 to 8 weeks?
The full terminology for the acronym DCAP-BTLS.
What is deformities, contusions, abrasions, punctures, bruising, tenderness, lacerations, and swelling?
A dead spot/zone describes a failure this what part of an MCI.
What is communication?