Self-satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers is?
What is complacency
BSI in a medical context can refer to two main things: BSI Medical Devices, and Body Substance Isolation.
What is True
By ensuring protection before or during patient care, responders can avoid becoming injured or additional patients themselves, allowing them to effectively assist others, this is called?
What is scene safety
The son comes from the back room and yells at you to stop harassing his mom. He has a side arm. You are to?
What is agree and leave
Ensuring scene safety is a dynamic process requiring constant reassessment. The process which in the past was often thought of simply as a task to be "checked off" at the start of the encounter, should not be undervalued is straight out of this book?
What is Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the Streets, Ninth Edition
A medical condition characterized by the loss of peripheral (side) vision or a metaphorical tendency to focus narrowly on one goal, ignoring other important aspects is defined as?
What is tunnel vision
A healthcare practice and infection control method that treats all bodily fluids as not potentially infectious
What is False
The three concepts of scene safety include?
What is safety is an illusion, BSI/scene safety, forgetting it gives you a bad day
You are returning to the station after a call, your partner pulls up to a coffee shop so you can run in and grab a snack. You notice there were five cars in the lot and a few cars in the drive thru, when you get inside you cannot find anyone, you are to?
What is assume the worst and leave. Notify PD
Situational awareness is.....?
What is the state of being aware of what is happening around you and recognizing the potential for threats to yourself or others
A member of an incident management team responsible for ensuring the safety of all personnel on site by identifying and mitigating hazards, monitoring operations and intervening when necessary is defined as?
What is a safety officer
The face, eyes, nose, hands and feet are portals to getting infected and spreading germs.
What is True?
The scene constantly changes due to the?
What is the unknown
You roll up at 2 am to a private residence at the end of a dark street involving a patient that fell. You hear screaming. Does it concern you that there are no lights on in the house. Would it concern you if there was loud music and shouting coming from the house, you are to?
What is back away and do not enter
Looking around and being aware always equals...
What is safety? Situational awareness?
Scene safety begins with?
What is you
Scene safety is the critical process of assessing and managing hazards to protect responders, patients and bystanders from potential harm during an emergency.
What is True
In the kitchen these are considered dangerous?
What are pots, pans, knives, forks
You are the first ambulance arriving at what was dispatched as a two vehicle collision with minor injuries on the shoulder of the interstate. As the first unit on scene, whose responsibility is it to deal with the high-speed traffic flying by and what else should you consider?
What is you and intoxicated drivers
This should be incorporated into every moment of a call.
What is situational awareness?
As noted in 2024 EMS Trend Survey one of the greater risks to responders is?
What is complacency
PPE stands for personnel protective environment
What is False
Even with cops on the scene, you are 100% protected.
What is NEGATIVE?
Identify this rhythm. You have five seconds.
What is Torsades de Pointes
Your Battalion Chief orders you to make a hole in the roof of a defensive fire. You disobey this order only when...
What is the roof is not safe.