Ambulance Ops
This six-pointed blue symbol is commonly displayed on ambulances and represents emergency medical services.
What is the Star of Life?
What is the removal of a patient from entrapment or a dangerous situation or position, such as removal from a wrecked vehicle, industrial accident, or collapsed building known as?
An emergency produces more patients than available EMS resources can adequately manage. This type of incident should be declared.
What is a Mass-Casualty Incident (MCI)?
During an MCI, patients who can walk and have minor injuries are generally assigned this color tag.
What is green?
Green means minor or walking wounded, while yellow means delayed and red means immediate.
These diamond-shaped warning signs are displayed on vehicles transporting certain hazardous materials to identify the type of hazard present.
What are DOT hazmat placards?
Placards use colors, symbols, and hazard-class numbers to identify general dangers, while a four-digit UN identification number, when displayed, can help identify the specific material.
Color and symbol: Indicate the general hazard, such as flammable, corrosive, or toxic.
Hazard class: A number such as 3 means flammable liquid.
Four-digit ID: If present, identifies the material for an ERG lookup.
The killing of pathogenic agents by using potent means of disinfection is known as ____-____ ________.
What is High-Level Disinfection?
A _____ _____ _____ is made up of people from one or more departments in a region who are trained and on call for certain types of technical rescues.
What is a technical rescue group/team?
This section of the Incident Command System is responsible for providing supplies, equipment, food, water, and other resources needed during an emergency incident.
What is the Logistics Section?
Command - Directs and manages the overall incident.
Operations - Carries out tactical activities, including rescue and patient care.
Planning - Gathers information, anticipates needs, and develops the incident action plan.
Logistics - Provides equipment, supplies, communications, food, water, fuel, and other resources.
Finance/Administration - Tracks incident expenses, costs, and documentation for reimbursement.
In the traditional four-color triage system, this color represents patients who are deceased or considered unlikely to survive with available resources.
What is black?
Traditional START-style triage combines deceased and expectant patients under black, while SALT uses gray for expectant and black for deceased.
What does B-NICE stand for?
B-NICE stands for Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical, and Explosive; CBRNE is another common mnemonic that includes Radiological threats.
What are the two rules of safe driving for EMS?
Hint for rule #1: ___ does not save lives. ___ ___ does.
Hint for rule #2: Operators and all passengers must wear ____ ____ and ______ ______ at all times.
Rule #1: Speed does not save lives. Good care does.
Rule #2: Operators and all passengers must wear seat belts and shoulder restraints at all times.
In hybrid and electric vehicles, cables of this color typically indicate dangerous high-voltage electrical components.
What is Orange?
This plan identifies an incident's objectives, strategies, and actions needed to manage the emergency.
What is the Incident Action Plan (IAP)?
This is the initial, rapid sorting of patients performed in the field during a mass-casualty incident.
_____ ______
What is primary triage?
Primary triage quickly assigns priorities to all patients, with only limited lifesaving interventions performed before more detailed care.
Secondary triage is a type of patient sorting used in the treatment area that involves retriage of patients.
This type of weapon uses conventional explosives to disperse radioactive material, creating a contamination hazard without causing a nuclear detonation.
What is a dirty bomb (radiological dispersal device)?
A dirty bomb spreads radioactive contamination using an ordinary explosive, unlike a nuclear weapon, which releases energy through a nuclear reaction.
During which ambulance call phase (9 phases total) would you perform a routine inspection to ensure the ambulance is ready to respond to the next call?
Entry that is easily achieved without the use of tools or force is known as ____ ____, while entry that requires special tools and training and includes the use of force is known as ____ ____.
What is simple access and complex access?
This nationwide framework allows federal, state, and local agencies to work together effectively during emergencies.
What is the National Incident Management System (NIMS)?
This mass-casualty triage method evaluates a patient's ability to walk, breathing, circulation, and mental status.
What is START triage?
START stands for Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment and uses respirations, perfusion, and mental status: often remembered as RPM - to assess nonwalking patients.
Following a suspected chemical attack, several patients develop pinpoint pupils, excessive salivation, vomiting, and muscle twitching; exposure to this type of chemical agent should be suspected.
What is a nerve agent?
Nerve agents inhibit normal nervous-system function and can produce cholinergic symptoms remembered by SLUDGEM or DUMBELS, potentially leading to respiratory failure.
An ambulance call has nine total phases. Please correctly name them.
Preparation, Dispatch, En route to the scene, Arrival at the scene, Transfer, Transport, Delivery, En route to the station, Postrun
According to Chapter 37, emergency vehicles should be parked at least this distance from a trench collapse to reduce the risk of a secondary collapse.
What is 500 feet?
What are the three primary command staff officers in the incident command system?
Public Information Officer: Handles public and media information.
Safety Officer: Monitors hazards and responder safety.
Liaison Officer: Coordinates with assisting agencies.
This triage method sorts patients, assesses their conditions, and allows selected lifesaving interventions before assigning treatment and transport priorities.
What is SALT triage?
SALT stands for Sort, Assess, Lifesaving Interventions, Treatment/Transport and permits rapid actions such as severe bleeding control and airway opening.
Developed through the Hartford Consensus, this acronym describes priorities for improving survival during active-shooter and intentional mass-casualty incidents.
What is THREAT?
THREAT means Threat suppression, Hemorrhage control, Rapid extrication to safety, Assessment by medical providers, and Transport to definitive care.