Chapter 20 - Emergency Rescue: Supplies and Equipment

Question 1

What is a sterile pad or compress (usually made of gauze or cotton wrapped in gauze) used to cover wounds to control bleeding and prevent further contamination?

Answer 1

Dressing

Question 2

Dressings should be large enough to cover entire area of the wound and extend at least what amount in every direction beyond the wound edges?

Answer 2

1”

Question 3

Most prepackaged battle dressings are how many tailed bandages for use in bandaging extremity, abdominal, and head wounds?

Answer 3

4

Question 4

The most common types of bandages are the roller and what other bandages?

Answer 4

Triangular

Question 5

For the hand and wrist, what type of bandage is ideal?

Answer 5

Figure-eight

Question 6

Due to the shape of the what, it is one of the most difficult parts of the body to bandage?

Answer 6

Heel

Question 7

What bandage must be used to cover wounds of the forearm and lower extremities?

Answer 7

Spiral reverse

Question 8

What bandage is frequently used for fractures of the lower jaw and to retain compresses to the chin?

Answer 8

Barton

Question 9

Triangular bandages are usually made of what?

Answer 9

Muslin

Question 10

What is a small and lightweight one-handed tourniquet that completely occludes arterial blood flow in an extremity?

Answer 10

Combat Application Tourniquet

Question 11

What is a medical device that measures the oxygen saturation of a patient’s blood and changes in blood volume in the skin, producing a photoplethysmograph/

Answer 11

Pulse Oximeter

Question 12

There are two types of fluids used for intravenous drips; crystalloids and what else?

Answer 12

Colloids

Question 13

The most commonly used crystalloid fluid is normal what?

Answer 13

Saline

Question 14

The amount of normal saline infused depends on the needs of the patient (e.g. ongoing diarrhea or heart failure)but is typically between 1.5 and how many liters a day for an adult?

Answer 14

3

Question 15

What is a synthetic plasma expander that works by producing expansion of plasma blood volume?

Answer 15

Hetastarch

Question 16

When it is difficult to establish IV access in casualties in shock, what device offers an alternative route for administering fluids and medications?

Answer 16

Intraosseous (IO)

Question 17

United States oxygen cylinders are color coded green, silver or chrome with a green area around the valve stem on top. The international color code is what?

Answer 17

White

Question 18

What is designed to help ventilate an unconscious casualty for long periods while delivering high concentrations of oxygen?

Answer 18

BVM ventilator

Question 19

When using external cardiac compressions, the cardiac output is cut to 25 to what percent of the normal capacity, and artificial ventilation does not supply enough oxygen through the circulatory system to maintain life for a long period?

Answer 19

30

Question 20

What is provided for emergency use in compartments containing insufficient oxygen?

Answer 20

Oxygen Breathing Apparatus (OBA)

Question 21

The standard Navy lifeline is a steel-wire cable, how many feet long?

Answer 21

50

Question 22

The Navy service litter most commonly used for transporting sick or injured persons is the what?

Answer 22

Stokes stretcher

Question 23

The Stokes stretcher is limited to one casualty or how many lbs?

Answer 23

400

Question 24

What is constructed of an outer plastic shell with an injected foam core of polyurethane foam?

Answer 24

Miller Board

Question 25

What is designed for rapid immobilization of spinal and neck injuries in tight places?

Answer 25

Reeves Sleeve

Question 26

What are equipment used in the immobilization of suspected or real fractures of the spinal column?

Answer 26

Spine boards

Question 27

What is one of the easiest ways to carry a casualty?

Answer 27

Fireman’s carry

Question 28

Once emergency medical care has been completed on-scene, the patient must be transferred to the treatment facility. A process known as what provides the means of properly positioning, covering, and securing the patient to avoid any unnecessary aggravation to the patient’s condition?

Answer 28

Packaging

Question 29

There are how many phases to en route care in the military operational environment?

Answer 29

Three

Question 30

What defines the care to be provided while there is a direct and ongoing threat to the patient and HM?

Answer 30

Care Under Fire (CUF)

Question 31

What are substances with the potential of harming people or the environment?

Answer 31

Hazardous materials

Question 32

What labeling system indicates the health , flammability, and reactivity hazards of chemicals?

Answer 32

NFPA 704

Question 33

The most dangerous element of any HAZMAT incident both to the exposed casualties and the rescuers is the rescue from the what?

Answer 33

Hot zone

Question 34

What is the process of removing or neutralizing and properly disposing of contaminants that have accumulated on personnel and equipment?

Answer 34

Decontamination

Question 35

What is the most frequently appropriate method of decontamination?

Answer 35

Dilution