Incident Command System (ICS)
This person has overall responsibility for managing the incident and establishing objectives.
Who is the incident commander?
Patients who can walk and follow instructions are usually classified as this type during decontamination.
What are ambulatory patients?
This process involves putting on PPE in a prescribed sequence.
What is Donning?
The most important item to bring to a decon activation.
What is yourself?
This seasonal hazard can cause multiple patients with smoke inhalation and burns.
What is a wildfire?
This section of the Hospital Incident Command System is responsible for tactical operations and patient care activities.
What is the Operations Section?
This zone is where contaminated patients first arrive.
What is the Hot Zone?
The purpose of taping gloves to sleeves is primarily to do this.
What is to reduce gaps where contamination can enter?
The recommended sequence for removing contaminated clothing.
What is cutting away and removing clothing while avoiding pulling it over the head?
Agricultural communities may experience exposures to these chemicals.
What are pesticides or herbicides?
This is the area where the ERT should assemble if being called to an event and a specific location was not included in the recall message.
What is the ambulance bay, after checking in at the incident check-in center in the GMC training room.
Children, disabled patients, and unconscious patients are generally classified as these types of decon patients.
What are non-ambulatory patients?
Wearing PPE for prolonged periods can increase the risk of this medical condition.
What is heat exhaustion?
This level of PPE is most commonly used by hospital decontamination teams managing known chemical exposures.
What is Level C PPE?
Rail transportation through Montana increases the possibility of incidents involving these materials.
What are hazardous chemicals, crude oil, or industrial products?
This person has a responsibility to advises leadership on responder safety and PPE requirements.
Who is the safety officer?
Removing a patient's clothing can eliminate approximately this percentage of contamination.
What is 80–90 percent?
Before donning PPE, responders should remove these items.
What are jewelry, watches, and personal items?
Patients in this category can tolerate delayed treatment.
What is Yellow (Delayed)?
The acronym CBRNE stands for these hazards.
What are Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive hazards?
What is ER staff, Charge Nurse, Admin on call, then Incident Commander.
This is the amount of people ideally to decontaminate one non-ambulatory patient.
What is 3?
The most common cause of responder contamination occurs during this process.
What is doffing PPE?
These triage systems are commonly used during mass casualty incidents.
What are SALT and START Triage?
Hospitals in rural areas may need to maintain decon operations longer because of this challenge.
What is delayed arrival of specialized HazMat resources?