Triage: Who Gets the Golden Ticket to Treatment?
Spoiler Alert: It's Gonna Be Meh
Spoiler Alert: It's Gonna Be Meh
What does ICS stand for?
Incident Command System
These incidents stress local EMS, fire, and police resources.
High Impact Incidents
This system developed so that federal, state, local, and tribal resources can respond more efficiently to natural disasters and emergencies
NIMS
This Group coordinates transportation of victims to appropriate facilities for treatment, manages patient movement and accountability from scene to hospitals, and works with treatment group to establish adequately sized, easily identifiable patient loading area
Transport Group
Who wrote the lyrics to The Star-Spangled Banner?
Francis Scott Key
What does MCI stand for?
Multiple-Casualty Incident
This person is responsible for all aspects of an emergency response
Incident Commander
Teaches unified approach to incident management, standard command and management structure and emphasizes preparedness, mutual aid, resource management, common terminology among agencies
NIMS
This is the method of sorting patients for care and transport based on severity of injuries or illnesses
Triage
What is the longest lived vertebrate?
The Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus)
What does NIMS stand for?
National Incident Management System
These incidents are manageable by local emergency personnel.
The Medical Branch designates and coordinates three functional areas or groups; Triage, Treatment, and this.
Any emergency that involves multiple victims and overwhelms first responding units is considered this.
What is the Capital of Iceland?
Reykjavik
In the START Triage System, the S stands for this.
Simple
These incident overwhelm regional emergency response resources.
Disaster, Terrorism Incidents
The triage group leader communicates resource requirements to this person.
The Medical Group Supervisor
START Triage is based on the rapid assessment of patients using these 3 criteria.
Respirations, Perfusion, Mental Status
On March 25th, this European country celebrated 205 years of independence.
Greece
A model tool for command, control, coordination of resources at scene of large-scale emergency involving multiple agencies
ICS
For the EMS Branch, the position under the Incident Commander is this.
The Operations Section Chief
This Group communicates with the Treatment Group Leader to allow for movement of patients into treatment area for prehospital care.
The Triage Group
START Triage should be accomplished in this amount of time or less, per patient.
60 seconds
The earliest known writing system was developed by this civilization around 3100 BC.
Sumerians developed cuneiform