Patients with Special Challenges
A genetic chromosomal defect that can occur during fetal development and that results in intellectual impairment as well as physical characteristics.
What is Down Syndrome?
A specialized vehicle for treating and transporting sick and injured patients.
What is an ambulance?
Gaining entry to an enclosed area and reaching a patient.
What is Access?
The process of sorting patients based on the severity of injury and medical need to establish treatment and transportation priorities.
What is Triage?
Terrorism that is purely foreign based or directed.
What is International Terrorism?
A group of complex disorders of brain development, characterized by difficulties in social interaction, repetitive behaviors, and verbal and non verbal communication.
What is ASD-Autism Spectrum Disorder?
A portable kit containing items that are used in the initial care of the patient.
What is a Jump Kit?
Removal of a patient from entrapment or a dangerous situation or position, such as removal from a wrecked vehicle, industrial incident, or collapsed building.
What is Extrication?
A sorting system for pediatric patients younger than 8 years or weighing less that 100lbs.
What is JumpSTART?
Destructive devices, such as bombs, placed to be activated after an initial attack and timed to injure emergency responders who rush in to help care for those targeted by an initial attack.
What are Secondary Devices?
A group of disorders characterized by poorly controlled body movement.
What is Cerebral Palsy?
To remove or neutralize radiation, chemical, or other hazardous material from clothing, equipment, vehicles and personnel.
What is Decontaminate?
A specialized law enforcement tactical unit.
What is SWAT?
A system implemented to manage disasters and mass-casualty incidents in which section chiefs, including finance, logistics, operations and planning, report to the incident commander.
What is the Incident Command System?
Packaging or producing a material, such as a chemical, biological, or radiological agent so it can be used as a weapon.
What is Weaponization?
A developmental defect in which a portion of the spinal cord or meninges may protrude outside of the vertebrae and possibly even outside of the body, usually at the lower third of the spine in the lumbar area.
What is Spina Bifida?
Medical evacuation of a patient by helicopter.
What is Medivac?
Respirator with independent air supply used by firefighters to enter toxic and otherwise dangerous atmospheres.
What is a Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA)>
In incident command, the subordinate positions under the commander's direction to which the workload is distributed; the supervisor/worker ratio.
What is Span of Control?
The movement of a substance through a surface or, on a molecular level, through intact materials; penetration or spreading.
What is Permeation?
A surgical procedure to create an opening (stoma) between the small intestine and the surface of the body.
What is an Ileostomy?
The six-pointed star emblem that identifies vehicles that meet federal specifications as licensed or certified ambulances.
What is the Star of Life?
The location of the incident commander at the scene of an emergency and where command, coordination, control and communication are centralized.
What is the Command Post?
A Department of Homeland Security system designed to enable federal, state and local governments and private-sector and nongovernmental organizations to effectively and efficiently prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents, regardless of cause, size or complexity, including acts of catastrophic terrorism.
What is the National Incident Management System (NIMS)?
Able to move through the animal-human barrier; transmissible from animals to humans.
What is Zoonotic?