DMRTI-US018 Emergency Preparedness and Response Course (EPRC) - CBRN for Medical Personnel and First Responders (4 hrs)

what would be the most likely course of action with your presumptive diagnosis?

2 week course of ciprofloxacin

Smallpox can spread from one person to another by the following routes:

All of the Above

The amount of radiation that an individual absorbs depends on ____?

All of the Above

You are certain that your patient, who is now convulsing from nerve agent exposure, has already received three MARK 1/ATNAA kits and their diazepam. What else should be done?

All of the Above

What method is used to estimate a radiation dose by measuring the biological response to an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation?

Biodosimetry

Which of the following is considered a pulmonary (choking) agent?

Chlorine

How does cyanide cause cell death in the body?

Interferes with anaerobic metabolism of the cell

What CBRNE agent inhibits the enzyme AChE allowing Ach to accumulate affecting the way cells transmit signals to the body?

NERVE

which acute radiation syndrome (ars) would you suspect based on the dose received?

Neurovascular

A patient is exhibiting the following symptoms: Fever, Cough, Dyspnea, prominent gastrointestinal symptoms, absence of buboes. Which form of plague is responsible?

Pneumonic

What is the best method of decontamination?

Removing clothing and washing with warm soapy water

Patient presents with 5-day-old blisters/rash mostly on the arm, face, and hands. No scabs are present. Patient reports fever started several days before blisters appeared. Based on the information would you suspect chickenpox or smallpox?

Smallpox, because the rash is centrifugal on the patient

As a healthcare provider what would be your course of action if this was your patient ?

Swab the area under the scab and of the area under the vesicle without cleansing the skin first.

Type of decontamination that is carried out by a unit to reduce contamination equal to natural background or to the lowest level possible.

Thorough

A group of victims has been admitted to your triage unit. All victims have recently been in an area where canisters exploded spraying them with an amber colored liquid that smells like flowers and burns intensely. You suspect Lewisite. Which of the following is not a consideration during treatment of the victims?

Unroofing of blisters.

Which type of nerve agent is the MOST persistent?

Vx

would you expect to see signs and symptoms commensurate with anthrax based on the information?

YES

based on the signs and symptoms present in the patient, which type of anthrax would you most likely suspect?

cutaneous

pending an antimicrobial susceptibility test, how would you now treat this patient?

intravenous ciprofloxacin and doxycycline