38-Transport Operations
What is an ambulance?
What is vehicle used for treating and transporting patients who need emergency medical care.
During a rescue situation in burning building where should EMT stay?
What is within the ambulance.
How many hours should EMS disaster supplies be provided for at least how many hours?
What is 72 hours.
What does WMD and WMC?
What is weapon of mass destruction and weapon of mass casualty.
When parking your ambulance at the scene of a motor vehicle crash, you should position the ambulance?
what is 100 feet before the scene.
What are one of the basic supplies that are on an ambulance?
What is AED.
How long does it take for a higher voltage automotive batteries to deenergize after main battery is turned off?
What is 10 minutes.
Where should the staging supervisor be established?
What is away from the scene so the vehicles are not in the way.
What is the preferred WMD for terrorists?
What explosive devices
Which of the following statements regarding hazardous materials is correct?
Some substances are not hazardous by themselves but become toxic when mixed with another chemical.
Define disinfection?
What is killing of pathogenic agents by directly a chemical made for that purpose to a surface equipment.
How many feet do you remain outside of the danger zone?
What is 500 ft.
How do you establish the hot zone?
What is the most contaminated area.
What are the two examples of pulmonary agents?
What is chlorine, phosgene.
You are treating a patient who experienced a significant exposure to cyanide. He is semiconscious and is breathing inadequately. The most appropriate method of providing assisted ventilations to this patient is to?
What is use a BVM.
EMS vehicle should never pass a ____ with flashing lights?
what is bus.
What does SCBA stand for?
What is self-contained breathing apparatus.
What are the triage categories?
What is red, yellow, green, black.
Two types of metabolic agents?
What is hydrogen cyanide, cyanogen chloride.
Which of the following statements regarding a "dirty bomb" is correct?
What is Dirty bombs could injure victims with both radioactive material and the explosive material used to deliver it.
What hazards should be looked for a landing zone.
What is debris, power lines.
What does simple access mean?
What is trying to get to patient as quickly and simply as possible without using any tools or force.
What do you do for the START triage system?
What is calling out to patients "If you can hear my voice and are able to walk" direct patients to an easy landmark.
What affects on the body does ricin have?
What is pulmonary edema, respiratory, circulatory failure leading to death.
A hiker was injured when he fell approximately 20′ from a cliff. When you arrive at the scene, a member of the technical rescue group escorts you to the patient, who is positioned on a steep incline. The most appropriate method of immobilizing and moving the patient to the ambulance is to?
What is immobilize his spine with a long backboard and place him in a basket stretcher.