Define Me
What is an incident that exceeds the resources available called?
Multiple Casualty Incident (MCI)
How do you transfer command?
After a short, complete debrief
What radiation particles have the least amount of hazards to us?
Alpha Particles
Why, when and where do most crashes occur for emergency vehicles when driving lights and sirens?
Why: excessive speed
When: during the day
Where: Intersections
After an initial explosion, what must first responders be aware of?
Possible secondary devices
What is the process of sorting injuries people by their priority?
Triage
When responding to a MCI, after ensuring all safety what is the next step?
Establishing command
What is the best way to identify hazardous materials at a fixed facility?
NFPA 704 System
What do we use in an ambulance to clean blood?
Bleach and water
After triaging patients, what color do we tend to first?
Red
What is managements of incidents that overwhelm resources and damage system infrastructure?
Disaster Management
Who is responsible for coordinating with hospitals?
Who is mostly found off site of an incident?
Pubic information officer
Transport officer
Financial officer
How do you determine a hazardous material if you cannot see it from 100 feet away? (Device you can use)
Binoculars
What type of ambulance design is a van type?
Type II
During START triage, what do we do first?
Yell out of the patients who are able to walk to move to an identifiable landmark
Removing victims who become entrapped within a vehicle, building, or machinery?
What during this can take the longest?
Extrication
Disentanglement
What role would a emergency physician play during an MCI that already has an IC?
Medical command
What is the least useful to determine a hazardous material that is being transported?
Shipping papers
How do you approach a helicopter? What side and how is your body? Additionally, we need to ensure that there are no what? (think high wind area)
Downhill side, front so the pilot can see you, strap down anything that they wind can take
Where would you commonly find a nerve agent at? This would only be found in certain area across the country (i.e. Parris Island)
Military Base
When driving an emergency vehicle, what does it mean to know if you action(s) were right or wrong after a crash?
Due Regard
What type of command do we use for a scene involving 2 cars and 12 injured patients on a quiet street?
Unified, Singular, or Multiple incident command
Singular Incident Command
You arrive at a MVC that involves a chemical truck with an unknown chemical leaking. What should you do with the victims who can ambulate? Where should you send them? (be specific)
Tell them to walk, upwind, upstream or uphill from the scene
In order to use the emergency mode in an ambulance or fire truck, what component of response must be present?
A true emergency was declared
If you are at a scene where chemical warfare was used, what would rain do?
disperse the chemical over a large area