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What is an Active Assailant?
A person who uses or has used deadly physical force on others and continues to do so while having unrestricted access to additional victims.
Who establishes Unified Command?
A Bentonville Police Officer and a Bentonville Fire Department Officer.
How many EMT/Paramedics make up an RTF?
2–3 EMT/Paramedics and at least 2 police patrol officers.
What is the Cold Zone?
An area where providers and patients are not reasonably expected to face significant danger or threat.
During Warm Zone operations, what type of treatment will BFD medical personnel provide?
Stabilizing treatment only.
What does CCP stand for?
Casualty Collection Point
What is a Large Scale Incident?
Verbiage used with Dispatch to deploy a significant number of resources immediately at the onset of an Active Attacker situation.
What is the police officer's primary role on an RTF?
Security and movement of the team.
What is the Warm Zone?
An area with a potential hostile threat that is not direct and immediate; it is the primary zone for RTF/Med Team operations.
What are the four situations specifically listed for immediate tourniquet placement?
Total/near-total amputation, massive bleeding, a wound that cannot be adequately controlled with a pressure dressing, or when there is doubt about whether to use a tourniquet
What is a Hot Zone?
An area where there is a direct immediate threat to persons or providers.
What is the purpose of the Inner Perimeter?
To keep the threat contained to a specified location.
How are the two police officers positioned?
One officer provides 180° front security and one provides 180° rear security.
What is the Hot Zone?
An area with a direct immediate threat.
Where does the SOG direct personnel to initially place a tourniquet on an injured limb?
As proximal as possible, regardless of injury location — essentially “high and over the clothes.”
What is a Protected Corridor?
An area of ingress/egress protected by police that allows Med Teams to operate within that space
Who directs RTF movement?
Unified Command.
Can an RTF freelance outside its assigned area?
No. The RTF may not freelance outside its directed destination/area of operation.
Where are CCPs located?
In or near the Warm Zone.
What two materials does the SOG specify for packing a deep wound?
Hemostatic agent and gauze.
What is an RTF?
Rescue Task Force — BFD EMT/Paramedics and Bentonville Police Officers working as an integrated unit to provide medical care in the Warm Zone
When should Fire Command consider activating Large-Scale Incident?
When it has not already been activated by Dispatch, to ensure adequate resources are en route.
How close must patrol officers remain to the medics?
Within close direct line of sight.
What happens if a Warm Zone becomes Hot?
The team immediately evacuates to appropriate cover while attempting to remove as many victims as possible and notifies Command of the change in threat level.
What airway intervention is specified for an occluded airway or a patient with altered mental status?
Placement of a nasopharyngeal airway.