Shrapnel injuries from a bomb blast are this kind of injury.
What are secondary injuries?
These are the colors used to catagorize patients in the SALT Triage System.
What are red, yellow, green, grey and black?
This is the body part you should use to determine how far away is safe when you are at a hazardous scene.
What is your thumb?
This is the part of your ambulance that will provide the most protection from gun fire.
What is the engine block?
Wear THIS when you are driving or riding in the ambulance.
What is your seat belt?
This body system removes waste.
What is excretory?
These are the 2 most common methods of anthrax exposure.
What is inhalation and absorption?
This is the primary catagory assigned to a patient who walks up to you at an MCI complaining that they have been shot in the arm.
What is green?
This is the book needed to look up all the information needed to keep you safer at a hazardous materials call.
What is the Emergency Response Guidebook?
This zone is where rescue task forces work.
What is a warm zone?
This is the smallest size a landing zone for a helicopter should be.
What is 100 feet by 100 feet?
This is the structure labeled with the letter J.
What is mitochondrion?
You should always be on the look out for this at the site of a bomb blast.
What is a secondary explosive device?
These are the 2 main differences between the START and the SALT triage systems.
What is SALT includes a grey catagory for patients and SALT has a second step of having non-green patients wave and starting with the non-wavers and START starts where you are?
This is where you as a paramedic should be during a hazardous materials call.
What is in the cold zone?
The type of evidence you might disturb just by entering an area to treat your patient.
What is blood splatter?
This is the primary danger to a victim trapped in grain inside of a silo.
What is asphyxiation?
A group of tissues that perform the same function is this.
What is an organ?
This is the antidote for organophosphate poisoning.
What is atropine?
Also acceted is pralidoxime.
These are the 3 essential elements of scene size-up in order from highest to lowest.
What is life safety, incident stabilizaiton and property conservation?
This sign indicates this concern.
What is the substance is flammable?
Free Space
This is the name of the item in red.
What is the A post?
These 2 substances are needed for muscles to contract.
What is calcium and ATP?
This is why botulisim is bad.
What it causes paralysis?
These are the 5 major branches of Incident Command.
What are Command, Operations, Planning, Logistics and Finance?
This is the level of the PPE shown here.
What is level A?
This type of evidence you can disturb just by removing the clothing of a patient to see the extent of their injuries.
What is gun shot residue?
This is when everyting combustible combusts.
What is flashover?
Cells that give, receive, and handle information are called this.
What are neurons?