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Chapter 39 Chapter test

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With START​ triage, when you arrive on the​ scene, you ask all the patients who can walk to move to one area. These patients are categorized​ as:
Priority 3 walking wounded.
EMS operations generally include which six​ areas?
Extrication, Staging, Triage, Treatment, Transportation, and Rehabilitation
Which of the following is not the role of the first arriving EMT at the scene of a possible hazardous materials​ emergency?
Rescuing any victims still in the area of the spill
Using START triage​ guidelines, a patient on the scene of a​ mass-causality incident who has no pulse is deemed a​ ________ patient.
priority 0
When transporting patients from the scene of a​ mass-casualty incident, who should be responsible for contacting the receiving​ hospital?
Transportation supervisor
Where is the decontamination corridor located where​ patients, personnel, and equipment are​ decontaminated?
warm zone
To respond to a hazardous materials​ incident, the EMT should be trained at which​ level?
awareness
Which of the following are desirable characteristics of the​ "safe or cold​ zone" in a hazardous materials​ incident?
Upwind, on the same level as the spill
You are on the scene of a​ mass-casualty incident in which the grandstand at a race track has collapsed. As the triage​ officer, you have encountered a​ 14-year-old male whose leg has been amputated above the knee. He is responsive to verbal​ stimuli, and he has an open​ airway, shallow rapid​ breathing, and a​ weak, rapid carotid pulse. This patient would be classified as a Priority​ ________ for treatment and transport.
1
Which of the following is the most common type of​ multiple-casualty incident that EMS providers will respond​ to?
automobile collisions
What source will provide first aid information about hazardous materials for employees at a work​ site?
Safety data sheets
Using START triage​ guidelines, a patient on the scene of a​ mass-causality incident who is alert and able to walk is deemed a​ ________ patient.
Priority 3
An area near a hazardous materials incident that is upwind from the incident and on the same level is a good location for​ a:
safe zone.
ICS recognizes that the manageable span of control​ is:
7 people.
You are called to a garden center where four shoppers have collapsed after a section of shelving fell and dumped hazardous products on the floor. When you arrive on the​ scene, you​ should:
recognize a HAZMAT​ incident, secure the scene by limiting​ access, isolate the possible contaminated from the​ noncontaminated, and request HAZMAT response.
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