EMT Ch. 39 Quiz

Level _____ hazardous materials would cause irritation on contact but only mild residual injury, even without treatment.

1

Which of the following patients should be assigned an immediate (red tag) category?

22-year-old male with blunt abdominal trauma, tachycardia, pallor, and diaphoresis

The JumpSTART triage system is intended to be used for children younger than _____ years or who appear to weigh less than _____.

8, 100 lb

You are triaging four patients who were involved in a head-on motor vehicle crash. Which of the following patients should be assigned the highest (red) triage category?

A 49-year-old female with diabetes and difficulty breathing

Which of the following MOST accurately describes a multiple-casualty incident?

An incident that greatly taxes or depletes a system's available resources

You are approaching an overturned tanker truck to assess the driver, who appears to be unresponsive. As you get closer to the vehicle, you note the smell of noxious fumes and find that you are in the midst of a vapor cloud. What should you do?

Exit the area immediately and gather information for the HazMat team.

Which of the following duties or responsibilities does NOT fall within the realm of the medical branch of the incident command system?

Extrication

Which of the following statements regarding communications at a disaster or multiple-casualty incident is correct?

If possible, use face-to-face communications to minimize radio traffic.

You are at the scene of multiple-casualty incident when your partner slips and falls, injuring his leg. He is alert and responds appropriately to your questions. His respirations are 20 breath/min and his radial pulses are strong. What triage category should you assign your partner?

Immediate

Which of the following statements regarding storage containers and hazardous materials is correct?

In most cases, there is no correlation between the color of the container and the possible contents.

Your work uniform is an example of what level of protection?

Level D protection

At a very large incident, the __________ section is responsible for managing the tactical operations usually handled by the incident commander on routine EMS calls.

Operations

A tour bus has overturned, resulting in numerous patients. When you arrive, you are immediately assigned to assist in the triage process. Patient 1 is a middle-aged male with respiratory distress, chest pain, and a closed deformity to his right forearm. Patient 2 is a young female who is conscious and alert, but has bilateral femur fractures and numerous abrasions to her arms and face. Patient 3 is an older woman who complains of abdominal pain and has a history of cardiovascular disease. Patient 4 is unresponsive, is not breathing, has a weak carotid pulse, and has a grossly deformed skull. What triage categories should you assign to these patients?

Patient 1, immediate (red); Patient 2, delayed (yellow); Patient 3, immediate (red); Patient 4, expectant (black)

Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of the treatment supervisor?

Primary assessment

Which of your senses can be safely used to identify a HazMat incident?

Sight and sound

Which of the following statements regarding the unified command system is correct?

Under the unified command system, plans are drawn up in advance by all cooperating agencies that assume a shared responsibility for decision making.

Which of the following chemicals requires identification with a placard, regardless of how many pounds the shipment weighs?

Water-reactive solids

Interoperability, an important feature of the NIMS, refers to the ability of:

agencies of different types or from different jurisdictions to communicate with each other.

You and your partner arrive at the scene where a truck has crashed into a small building, injuring eight people. You immediately request additional ambulances and begin the triage process. The first patient that you triage is a young female who is unconscious and apneic. She has an open head injury and her pulse is weak and thready. You should:

assign her a low priority and continue triaging.

While triaging patients at the scene of a building collapse, you encounter a young child who is conscious, alert, and breathing; has bilateral radial pulses; and has a severely angulated leg, which is not bleeding. According to the JumpSTART triage system, you should:

assign him a delayed (yellow) category and continue triaging the other patients.

Following proper decontamination, a 30-year-old male is brought to you. He is semiconscious and has rapid, shallow respirations. A quick visual assessment reveals no obvious bleeding. You should:

begin some form of positive-pressure ventilation.

A carboy is a container that would MOST likely be used to store and transport:

corrosives.

A 49-year-old man has been removed from his overturned tanker, which was carrying a hazardous material. The tank ruptured and he was exposed to the material. When rescue personnel bring him to the decontamination area, they note that he is unconscious and has slow, shallow breathing. They should:

cut away all of the patient's clothing and do a rapid rinse to remove as much of the contaminating matter as they can.

Which of the following is NOT a common role of the EMT at the scene of a HazMat incident?

decontamination

The process of removing or neutralizing and properly disposing of a hazardous material is called:

decontamination.

As the first-arriving senior EMT at the scene of an incident, you should perform a scene size-up and then:

establish command.

Placards and labels on a storage container are intended to:

give a general idea of the hazard inside that particular container.

According to the JumpSTART triage system, if a pediatric patient is not breathing, you should:

immediately check for a pulse.

The FIRST step in the START triage system is to:

move all walking patients to a designated area.

As a triage supervisor, you:

must not begin treatment until all patients have been triaged.

Unlike a multiple-casualty incident, a natural disaster:

often requires personnel to remain on scene for several days.

The development of an incident action plan is the responsibility of the:

planning section.

The function of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) is to:

prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents.

If an incident increases in scope and complexity, the incident commander should consider:

relinquishing command to someone with more experience.

You have a critically injured patient in the back of your ambulance, ready to be transported. There are other injured patients at the scene and it will be approximately 10 minutes before other ambulances will arrive. Law enforcement personnel are at the scene. You should:

remain at the scene until at least one other ambulance arrives.

When victims involved in a multiple-casualty incident are moved to the treatment area:

secondary triage is performed and the appropriate treatment is rendered

According to the JumpSTART triage system, infants or children not developed enough to walk or follow commands, including children with special needs:

should be taken to the treatment area for immediate secondary triage.

A critical function of the safety officer is to:

stop an emergency operation whenever a rescuer is in danger.

After recognizing that an incident involves a hazardous material, you should contact the hazardous materials team and then:

take measures to ensure the safety of yourself and others.

A patient in respiratory arrest at the scene of a multiple-casualty incident would typically be classified as a fourth priority (black tag; expectant) patient, unless:

there are enough resources to provide care for him or her.

Command functions under the incident command system include all of the following, EXCEPT:

triage officer

According to the START triage system, which of the following patients should be triaged as an immediate priority (red tag)?

unresponsive with a respiratory rate of 34 breaths/min

The MOST appropriate location to park your ambulance at a HazMat incident is:

upwind at least 100 feet from the incident.

A patient who has experienced a back injury, with or without spinal cord damage, would be triaged with a __________ tag during a mass-casualty incident.

yellow

Burn patients without airway compromise and patients with multiple bone or joint injuries should be marked with a __________ triage tag at a mass-casualty incident.

yellow