What a Disaster
The French word meaning "to sort"
Triage
From the Greek root meaning "bodily injury"
Trauma
Maintains the integrity of the evidence and protects admissibility in court
Chain of custody
The definition of the BoO acronym
Base of Operations
Bombs placed at the scene of an ongoing emergency response that are intended to cause casualties among responders.
Secondary explosive device
The process by which you resume business after a disruptive event.
Disaster Recovery
The definition of the S.A.L.T. acronym
Sort, Assess, Life Saving Interventions, Transport
Allows novice drivers to gain knowledge and driving experience while under the supervision of an experienced mentor
Graduated driver's license
Our sister team
Florida-1
The most common primary blast injury
Tympanic membrane injury
Should always take place upwind and uphill.
Decontamination
The definitions of the S.A.L.T. color coding
Green = Minimal
Yellow = Delayed
Red = Immediate
Grey = Expectant
Black = Deceased
Evidence is placed in here to maintain integrity when saturated with bodily fluids
Paper bags
The longest you can be deployed
2 weeks
Unpredictable puncture wounds that cause major tissue damage.
Gunshot wounds
4 of the top 8 in Incident Command.
Incident Commander, Liaison Officer, Safety Officer, Public Information Officer, Operations, Planning, Logistics, Finance/Admin
2 of the rapid life saving interventions
Control major bleeding
Open airway (child, 2 breathes)
Auto-injector antidotes
Chest decompression
Played Sargent Joe Friday on the original TV Dragnet
Jack Webb
The definition of the ASPR acronym
Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response
The immediate damaging effect from a bullet wound
Blood lose or hypovolemic shock
Large open containers of this will help control most odors in a temporary morgue
Ground Coffee
The 'father" of triage
Surgeon-in-chief Napoleon's army; Dominque Jean Larray
The patient does not have to die for this to be valid and used in court
Dying declaration
Our first WI-1 Commander
Jason Liu
Three types of skull fractures
Linear
Depressed
Basilar