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EMS Operations:

1. It's 7:30 a.m. and you arrive on scene of a two car collision involving at least 6 patients on a foggy corner of a fairly busy country road. The fire department is not there yet and there is smoke and flames showing from both cars. You can hear people crying and cars are already driving around the wreckage to get past the scene. What steps should you take?


2. 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?


3. You arrive on scene of an unknown medical to find a man and a woman unconscious in their kitchen. You are finishing a rapid trauma assessment on the woman when your partner says she smells something odd and is feeling dizzy. Your best course of action would be to:


4. Repeaters are used to:


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


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


7. Expressed consent is?


8. An EMT may be charged with abandonment if they?


9. 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?


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