Demo Test

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?

Cut off roof

Broken window

Open broken windshield

The door

2. Expressed consent is?

Not needed if the patient is conscious

Implied if the patient is conscious

Authorization by the patient for you to treat them

Needed if the patient is unconscious

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

Soloing

Spear Heading

Bird Dogging

Freelancing

4. 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?

Notify dispatch of the need for an Incident Commander and begin triaging patients.

Inform IC of your location and begin triaging patients if the scene is safe.

Stay a safe distance from the incident and do what the Incident Commander tells you to do.

Take incident command until relieved or reassigned

5. 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?

Begin extrication of the patients while your partner calls for more ambulances

Get the fire department en route, establish a safety zone and assist in keeping traffic a safe distance away

Triage the most critically injured first and then extricate them in order of severity

Inform the patients that you are not allowed by law to enter the zone until it is made safe by law enforcement

6. What is the area of hazardous contamination known as?

Green zone

Yellow zone

Hot zone

Black zone

7. 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?

Transporting in the fowler's position and O2 on nasal canula at 6 lpm

Parental release and advice about bike riding

If she is having her period and are her parents home

Having a female EMT respond for the patient's modesty

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

PTA

FCC

NRA

FCT

9. NIMS is best explained as:

A National system of managing large emergencies based on having private and governmental organizations work independently at the scene of a mass casualty

A systematic approach of assessment used during the triage of large groups of people during a mass casualty incident

Governmental rescue organizations taking responsibility for controlling the parts of the scene that fall within their expertise

A template system for providing consistent, effective processes in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from an incident

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

Throw it away

Flush with sterile water in preparation for additional suctioning

Put it in the sharps container

Take it home for your kids to play with

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