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Multiple Casualty
Incidents
1. Determining who is in charge is an important point in a MCI
plan.
2. A multiple casualty incident (MCI) involves:
3. What is triage, and how does it work. What kinds of injuries
are ranked as what kinds of priority in MCI? What is the officer
in charge of triage called? What is the difference between highest
priority, second priority, low priority and walking wounded?
4. At a MCI scene, what is the role of the lead EMT before a predesignated
person arrives?
5. What is wrong with joking at a MCI?
6. What happens to an EMT who breaks down and becomes emotionally
incapacitated at the scene of an emergency?
7. What does a staging officer, a transportation officer, triage
officer, a treatment officer, and an extrication officer do?
8. The first role of the EMT-B responding to a disaster scene
is:
Extrication
9. Know the components, and the purpose of extrication. What is
the main role of an EMT in extrication?
10. When working a collision site, injuries are most often caused
by:
11. With a downed electric line, what will cause arcing?
12. An extrication may include removing the rear window to allow
you to gain access to your pt
13. Good body protection at a rescue site includes:
14. How do you use a spring-loaded punch to break a car window?
15. What is appropriate eye protection for an EMT?
Hazardous Materials
16. The national haz-mat standards for EMT's are called:
17. What is CHEMTREC?
18. While waiting for the haz-mat team to come, a good source
of information on hazardous substances is:
19. At a haz-mat site, what happens in each of the 4 zones - cold
zone, warm zone, hot zone, and cool zone.
20. How long does a haz-mat technician course take?
21. What is the difference between first responder awareness and
first responder operations, between haz-mat technician and haz-mat
specialist?
22. What is NFPA 704?
23. Principal dangers of hazardous materials:
24. What federal agencies have developed regulations for haz-mat
emergencies
Ambulance Operations
25. What do ambulance drivers need to know about intersections?
26. Driving with the safety of others in mind is called what?
27. How do you sterilize equipment, what is used for intermediate
level disinfection
28. The federal Agency in charge of ambulance design
29. What kinds of things are ambulance drivers allowed to do,
and not to do in most states?
30. Non medical supplies on an ambulance include:
31. Never assume everyone will hear and heed your siren.
32. What percent of ambulance calls are - emergencies, true emergencies,
life threatening?
33. What is involved in returning an ambulance into service after
a call? When is an ambulance call considered complete?
34. Factors involved in response time
35. The phases of an ambulance call
36. Is using a police escort on an ambulance run helpful or dangerous?
37. When do you do your written pt report?
Miscellaneous
38. Any reason to transport a resuscitated near-drowning pt.?
What do water-related accidents typically involve?
39. Warm, pink and dry skin may indicate something while hot and
dry indicates another.
40. Who does capillary refill work well on?
41. Name some solid organs found in the abdominal cavity. Name
some hollow organs found there.
42. Uterus
43. Meconium
44. Perineum
45. Amniotic sac
46. bag of waters
47. postictal presentation
48. During your trauma assessment, when is the pt "packaged"?