Phases of a Call
This phase of a call is when the rig is readied, checked, and restocked so you're prepared to respond.
What is the preparation phase?
Using these two things asks other drivers to yield the right of way — it doesn't legally force them to.
What is lights and siren?
The marked, cleared area where a medical helicopter sets down.
What is a landing zone (LZ)?
In rescue terms, this word simply means reaching the patient.
What is access?
At a crash with a trapped patient, you cover them with one of these to shield against broken glass and debris.
What is a heavy (fire-resistant) blanket?
A portable oxygen cylinder carried on the rig should hold at least this minimum volume.
What is 425l?
During this phase, the patient is loaded and secured — "packaged" — for the ride to the hospital.
What is the transfer to ambulance phase?
When you hit standing water and the tires lose contact with the road, this is happening.
What is hydroplaning?
The single biggest overhead hazard to scan for around a landing zone.
What are power lines (wires)?
Getting in through unlocked doors or open windows, with no tools, is this kind of access.
What is simple access?
This technique moves a non-entrapped patient out in under a minute with manual spinal stabilization, used when the scene or patient is unstable.
What is a rapid extrication?
Equipment and supplies are stored on the ambulance according to this.
What is how urgently and how often they're used?
After the run, you clean, disinfect, and restock during this phase before going back in service.
What is the post-run phase?
If the ambulance starts to hydroplane, you do this.
What is gradually slow down?
You never mark a nighttime landing zone with these open-flame hazards.
What are road flares?
When a person is pinned or a limb is caught and can't be freed, they are said to be this.
What is entrapped?
Standing by at a structure fire, you don't freelance — you ask this person where to stage the ambulance.
What is the incident commander?
Killing pathogens on equipment with a chemical made for that purpose is called this.
What is disinfection?
Dispatched to a new call while your rig is contaminated and out of airway gear, the right move is to tell dispatch you are this.
What is out of service?
Most state laws let a lights-and-siren ambulance do this at a red light — but only after stopping and making sure it's clear.
What is proceed through with caution?
When a helicopter has landed on a slope, you approach it from this side so the rotor sits higher above you.
What is the downhill side?
Access that requires tools or specialized rescue equipment to reach the patient is called this.
What is complex access?
At a hostage or active-shooter scene, you wait in staging and let this team bring the patient to you.
What law enforcement / SWAT?
Bag-mask devices, oral and nasal airways, and suction units all belong to this minimum category of ambulance equipment.
What is airway/ventilation equipment?
The moment you pull up, you carry out this — checking the scene for hazards, number of patients, and needed resources.
What is scene size-up?
A core defensive-driving mindset: always assume other drivers will do this. (Two things)
What is not see or hear you?
You approach the aircraft only from this general direction, where the crew can see you — and only when signaled.
What is the front?
The overall process of safely freeing a patient from a vehicle or other predicament.
What is extraction?
At a trench collapse, you park at least this far back and shut off the engine to avoid triggering a secondary collapse.
What is about 500ft?
This item is NOT airway equipment — it belongs with the poisoning/overdose supplies instead.
What is narcan?