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EMS Operations:

1. A motor vehicle accident has occurred right in front of your ambulance and requires the patients to be extricated. Your first choice of location to accomplish the rapid extrication should be the?


2. Expressed consent is?


3. You have requested helicopter transportation of a critical burn patient. The remote nature of the accident will force the helicopter to land on an incline. From which direction should you approach the helicopter?


4. Your patient is a 14-year-old girl who is complaining of vaginal pain after falling onto the center post of her bike. She is alone and very scared. She has called the accident in on her cell phone and stated that she is bleeding very badly and feeling faint. Besides treating for shock, what other things should you consider with this patient?


5. Communication on the radio is a very important part of the EMS system, and messages should be:


6. What should be done to a French tip catheter after suctioning a patient's airway?


7. When transmitting a number with two or more digits you should say the whole number first, followed by:


8. What authority has jurisdiction over radio transmissions made during a call?


9. An ambulance unit or fire department that makes an uncoordinated, independent decision during an incident is said to be:


10. You are the first EMS unit on scene of a multiple casualty incident. A crane has fallen from a building roof top and ripped through an adjacent building. What should you do according to the ICS?