Ambulance Ops Final

Question 1

The incident command team

Answer 1

Incident site manager, ambulance site coordinator, triage officer, traffic control officer, safety officer, CACC

Question 2

Incident site manager role

Answer 2

Oversee the entire on site response, coordinates the efforts of all responding agencies

Question 3

Ambulance site coordinator role

Answer 3

Senior paramedic on scene, organizing scene

Question 4

Triage officer role

Answer 4

Triage pts, coordinate holding area

Question 5

Traffic control officer roles

Answer 5

Scene safety, movement of ambulance, record pt movement

Question 6

Red triage

Answer 6

immediate/emergent- CTAS 1 or 2

Question 7

Yellow triage

Answer 7

Urgent- CTAS 3

Question 8

Green triage

Answer 8

Delayed transport- CTAS 5 or 5

Question 9

Only exception to VSA patients

Answer 9

Electrocutions

Question 10

First check on MCI triage

Answer 10

Obviously dead

Question 11

Airway when triaging

Answer 11

If its patent move on, if it not preform a jaw thrust.

If then it opens move on to breathing if still not open blue tag

Question 12

Breathing triage

Answer 12

If rate is more than 10 or less than 30 move on.

If rate is less than 8 or greater than 30 they’re red.

Question 13

Circulation triage

Answer 13

If radial pulse present, move on.
If not radial pulse, red.

Question 14

LOC + potential life threats

Answer 14

Alert - Green or yellow
Verbal - Green or yellow
Pain - Yellow or Red
Unresponsive- Red

Question 15

What kinds of vehicles does ontarios air ambulance have

Answer 15

Rotary, fixed wing and land ambulance

Question 16

FFT physiological criteria

Answer 16

1. Pt does not follow commands
2. SBP <90mmHg
3. Resp rate <10 or >30
   If pt meets these criteria and land transport time is <30mins, go to LTH

Question 17

FFT anatomical criteria

Answer 17

1. Penetrations to head/neck/torso
2. Two or more long bone fractures
3. Crushed/pulseless extremities
4. Chest wall instability
5. Amputation
6. Pelvic fracture
7. Paralysis
8. Open/depressed skull fracture

Question 18

FFT if pt has penetration to head/neck/torso

Answer 18

Still transport to LTH even if survival is unlikely

Question 19

FFR mechanism of injury

Answer 19

1. Adults fall from >6metres
2. Children falls from >3metres
3. High risk auto crash (intrusion, ejection
4. Pedestrian struck
5. Motor cycle crash >30km/hr

Question 20

FTT Special criteria

Answer 20

1. Age (risk of death over 55/ SBP <110 after 65)
2. Bleeding disorders
3. Burns
4. Pregnancy

Question 21

Operational criterial for air ambulance

Answer 21

Land ambulance will take more than 30 mins to reach scene and air will reach it faster
Land ambulance will require more than 30 mins to travel to hospital and air will arrive faster
Both air and land will arrive at same time but pt needs air ambulance care

Question 22

Clinics criteria for air ambulance

Answer 22

1. a criteria from the FTT
2. Shock
3. Stroke with onset <6 hours
4. GSC <10
5. Resp failure/distress
6. STEMI or lethal dysrhythmia
7. Status epileptic
8. Unstable airway

Question 23

Air ambulance clinical criteria obstetrical

Answer 23

1. Active labour with abnormal presentation
2. Multiple gestation and active labor
3. Unbiblical cord prolapse
4. Significant vaginal bleeding