OPERATION OF COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT AND RESOURCES
CALL CLASSIFICATION AND PRIORITIZATION
BASIC PRINCIPLES AND COMPONENTS OF EMS
100
Only these people should give legal advice.
What are attorneys?
100
These are the 5 components of a communication cycle.
What are the sender, receiver, message, medium, and feedback?
100
This is an electronic database that provides the PST with call information, response unit availability, and other
resources such as criminal records, vehicle registration and other outside information sources.
What is CAD?
100
Law enforcement prioritization is based on the individual incident and these two other factors.
What is the threat to life and/or property and the chance of apprehension?
100
This acronym stands for intoxication from ethyl alcohol – used to describe an intoxicated person.
What is ETOH?
200
The 3 phases of a hostage situation are these.
What are initial, negotiation, and termination?
200
These may assist in prosecution of a case at a later
date.
What are excited utterances?
200
This enables a pathway for radio communications between multiple jurisdictions, multiple disciplines, and/or disparate radio systems.
What are interoperable radio systems?
200
EMS prioritization is based on these two factors.
What are the individual incident and patient condition?
200
This is a portable device that checks the heart rhythm and if needed, can send an electric shock to try to restore a normal rhythm.
What is an AED?
300
These are the 5 phases of an active shooter incident.
What are fantasy, planning, preparation, approach, and implementation?
300
This is a calming technique that gives them something to do.
What is empowering the caller?
300
This is an automated voice system to collect audio recordings as permanent records that may be used in criminal or civil actions, providing exact recollection of events as they happened.
What is recording equipment?
300
For fire services, prioritization are based on these two factors.
What are the individual incident and threats to life and/or property?
300
This response is defined as a response with the use of lights and sirens.
What is an emergency response mode?
400
this is the wrongfully taking or carrying away of one person by another by force, fraud, or persuasion.
What is abduction?
400
This is a conscious effort that requires the listener to understand and interpret what is being heard by showing interest in what the speaker is saying to ensure mutual understanding.
What is active listening?
400
These allow for the manual documentation of pertinent information pertaining to emergency and non-emergency events when the CAD is down.
What are call cards?
400
To determine if any weapons are being used, the PST should ask these two questions.
What are what type of weapon is being used and where the weapon is now?
400
An EMT only performs this type of patient care while, in contrast, a paramedic performs this type of patient care and the same care that an EMT performs.
What is BLS and ALS/BLS?
500
A dispatcher shall continue to do this even after the call has been dispatched.
What is continue to update field units with all relevant information?
500
While taking calls, All PSTs must clearly identify these and use caution when making these about a situation.
What are facts and inferences?
500
These are forms utilized for the manual documentation of information pertaining to criminal histories, wreckers, private property tows, repossessions, etc.
What are logs?
500
In order to determine the "what" of an incident, the PST should ask what type of proper questions?
What are open-ended questions?
500
Basic airway management is this type of support performed by an EMT/paramedic.