Ground & Air Ambulance
A term that describes the various land-based emergency vehicles used by EMS personnel. It includes BLS, ACLS, mobile intensive care units, and other
What is an ambulance?
Areas where ill or injured people are gathered for traige, treatment, or transport.
What is casualty collection areas?
A litter designed of a rigid frame made of wire, mesh, or plastic.
What is basket stretcher?
Safety devices used in emergency responses to make vehicle presence known. Examples include lights, sirens, and horns.
What are audible and visual warning devices?
A safety zone in a hazmat response that typically surrounds the warm zone and is usually considered safe, requiring only minimal protective clothing.
What is cold zone?
The use of biologic agents, such as pathogenic organisms or agricultural pests, for the purpose of causing death or disease, to instill a sense of fear and panic in the victims, and to intimidate governments or societies for political, financial, or ideological gain.
What is Bioterrorism?
Positioning of the ambulance diagonally about 50 feet in front of the scene for safety, to divert oncoming traffic is known as:
What is fend-off position?
The act of directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit, statutory, regulatory, or delegated authority.
What is Command?
The process of making a pathway through the wreckage of an accident and removing wreckage from patients.
What is disentanglement?
A device or structure that offers ballistic protection; may or may not also provide concealment.
What is Cover?
Hazardous materials that are either strong acids or strong bases (alkaline).
What is Corrosives?
An abbreviation for the categories of weapons of mass destruction: Chemical, Biologic, Radiologic, Nuclear, and Explosives agents.
What is CBRNE?
The standard that identifies the minimum requirements for the new ground ambulances built on a manufacturer's chassis. It applies to new vehicles only.
What is Ground Vehicle Standard for Ambulances?
What is Command Post?
The phase of rescue that involves managing, reducing, and minimizing risks from uncontrollable hazards; ensuring scene safety; and providing appropriate PPE.
A location where any part of a criminal act has occurred, or a location where evidence relating to a crime may be found.
What is a crime scene?
The process of making patients, rescuers, equipment, and supplies safe by eliminating harmful substances.
What is Decontamination?
A poisonous, yellow-green gas with an odor that has been described as a mixture of pineapple and pepper.
What is Chlorine?
An area prepared for the landing of an aircraft; generally 100 x 100 ft.
What is landing zone?
A term usually associated with a human-made or natural event that involves damage across a large area or to a community's infrastructure.
What is Disaster?
Completion of the emergency care procedures needed to transfer a patient from the scene to the emergency vehicle.
What is Patient Packaging?
A spinal injury that occurs if spinal motion is stopped suddenly relative to body motion causing the weight and momentum of the body to shift away from it—also, a self-defense measure in which a diversion is created to attract a person's attention.
What is Distraction?
The physical change or effect caused by exposure to a chemical. The response depends on the concentration of the chemical to which the person was exposed.
What is Dose Response?
An infectious viral hemorrhagic fever.
What is Ebola?
The standard that defines the minimum requirements for design, performance, and testing of new automotive ambulances intended for use under emergency conditions to transport sick or injured people to appropriate medical facilities; developed with consideration of the federal standards.
What is NFPA 1917?
The mobilization of resources and the methods used to meet the needs of a disaster response.
What is Disaster Management?
That act of delivery from danger or imprisonment.
What is Rescue?
The area of a hazmat incident that presents an immediate danger to life or health and typically includes the hazardous material itself.
What is the hot zone?
Any item or agent (biologic chemical, radiologic and/or physical) that has the potential to cause harm to humans, animals, or the environment, either by itself or through interaction with other factors.
What is Hazardous Material?
A homemade bomb constructed of explosives attached to a detonator. An example would be a roadside bomb.
What is an Improvised Explosive Device?
An ambulance designed based on the chassis-cabs of ligh duty pickup trucks.
What is Type 1 ambulance?
Geographic areas sometimes used to break command into more manageable chunks.
What are Divisions?
A safety device in a vehicle, such as an impact sensor, airbags, and seat belt pre-tensioners, that deploys to prevent driver/occupant injury.
What is Supplemental Restraint System?
Clothing that protects from some blunt and penetrating trauma; a.k.a. bullet-proof vests. The vest must be designed and rated to protect edged weapons.
What is soft body armor?
Hazardous substances that may cause the destruction of RBCs.
What is Hemotoxins?
Firebombs.
What is an Incendiary Device?
An ambulance design based on modern passenger/cargo vans.
What is Type II amublance?
The group responsible for managing patients who are trapped. Responsibilities may include search and rescue, initial triage and tagging, and treatment before transfer of the patients to the treatment group.
What is Extrication/Rescue group?
That rescue of a patient who is afloat on the surface of a body of water.
What is Surface Water Rescue?
A tactical response to avoid danger by waiting at a safe distance from the scene until the appropriate authorities have secured the area.
What is Staging?
What is the Hot Zone?
Chemicals that disrupt the nerve transmissions in the central and peripheral nervous system.
What is nerve agents?
An ambulance design based on chassis-cabs of light-duty vans.
What is Type III ambulance?
The section responsible for tracking costs and reimbursement.
What is Finance/Administration section?
The process of coordinating the resources of a number of different partner agencies and private-sector companies to detect, respond to, and clear traffic incidents as quickly as possible so as to reduce the impacts of incidents on safety and congestion, while protecting the safety of on-scene rescuers.
What is Traffic Incident Management?
Patient care activities that occur inside the scene perimeter of a dangerous scene.
What is Tactical Patient Care?
Chemicals that are not corrosives but can cause a reversible inflammatory effect on living tissue at the site of skin, mucous membrane, respiratory system, or eye contact.
What are Irritants?
A poisonous gas that appears as a gray-white cloud and smells of newly mowed hay.
What is Phosgene?