Air Rescue
The EMT has a lit cigarette in their mouth.
What is an incorrect behavior near a helicopter?
Checking fluid levels, ambulance body, battery, horn, sirens, fuel levels, and lights.
What are the vehicle components?
The ambulance is speeding in a school zone for a nonemergent call.
What is the correct action while operating in a school zone?
Radioing the EMD that are returning to quarters and are in/out of service
What are in quarters call termination?
Cleaning any equipment that touched the patient.
What are in-quarters standard precautions?
Approaching from the back of the helicopter.
How would an EMT not approach a helicopter?
Red biohazard containers.
Where should blood, excrement, or vomit-stained linens go?
What is identification?
Cleaning up blood, disposing of trash, bagging dirty linens, using deodorizer
What the appropriate standard precautions after terminating the call?
Type I, Type II, Type III, Medium Duty, Specialty Response Vehicle.
What are the types of ambulances?
100ft x 100ft
What are the dimensions of the helicopter landing zone?
Being able to perform under stress, being physically and mentally fit, having a positive attitude about your ability as a driver, never driving under the influence.
What are the expectations of a safe ambulance operator?
3. Chest, hip or waist, lower extremities.
How many straps does the stretcher need? What are their labels?
Replacing as many items as you think you might need.
What is replacing expandable items at the hospital?
Intimately learning your operating territory for your department or company.
What is the best way to learn how to navigate a scene while driving?
Terrain, major landmarks, estimated distance to the nearest town, etc.
What are some ways to describe the landing zone to the air rescue service?
The vehicle components (Completed by driver) and equipment components (Completed by crew leader).
What are the two components of ensuring ambulance readiness? Who completes what?
This refers to the sequence of operations required to prepare the patient for movement and combine the patient and the carrying device into a unit ready for transfer.
What is obtaining a release from the hospital?
Weather conditions, day of the week, time, construction, railroad tracks, bridges, tunnels, schools
Factors that can affect response time?
Shock, GCS of less than 10, Head Injury alongside Altered Mental Status, Chest trauma and respiratory distress, penetrating injuries to the body cavity, amputations proximal to the hands or feet, extensive burns, serious mechanism of injury, patient is post-cardiac arrest with a pulse
What are the reasons for air transport?
Super Sani-Cloth Germicidal Disposable wipes
What are the "purple top", EPA-approved, sanitizer wipes?
Select proper patient carrying device, package patient for transfer, move patient to ambulance, load patient into ambulance.
What are the four steps of transferring to the ambulance?
What is transferring the patient to the emergency department?
May have a certain effect on the operators themselves
What is the continuous sound of the siren?