Chapter 3 - FD Basics & FLSE Flashcards
A legal of medical care that requires advanced procedure and skills on a patient involving invasive and noninvasive procedures, along with advanced medication administration.
Advanced Life Support (ALS)
A level of basic medical care that us used for patients with life threatening illness or injury until the patient can be given fill medical care by more stilled personnel.
Basic Life Support (BLS)
The daily work uniform worn by department personnel
Class B Uniform
A 30-in forged steel tool used primarily for prying.
Halligan Tool
Act that helps ensure that all medical records, and medical billing, and patient records meet certain consistent standards with regard to documentation/ handling, and privacy.
Health Insurance pOrtability and accountability Act of 1996
A pact of information about the departments organization structure, chief officers, contact information, station locations, and divisions
Media Packet
A device that emits a loud alter or warning when the earring is motionless
Personal alert safety system (PASS)
The gear firefighters wear for protection while performing their job.
Personal protective equipment
A tool with a 32-inch to 12-foot handle with a pike and a hook on the end. Used fo pulling ceilings or separation materials
Pike Pole
Gear composed of an air tank, mask, and regulator
SCBA
An instrument used infrared imaging and measuring to see and measure thermal energy emitted from an object. Often used by fire fighters to locate hot spots and victims.
Thermal Imager
An encoded signal device emergency vehicle use to turn traffic signal green, providing when with right of way.
Traffic Signal Preemption system
Firefighting boots, pants, jacket, hood, gloves, and helmet.
Turnout gear
A _______ is a team of fire fighters with apparatus assigned to perform a specific function in a designated response area.
Company
What can aid a fire department in improving future tours
Surveys
What functional area of a fire department staff the fire and EMS apparatus and responds to calls
Operations
What type of system is available to allow emergency vehicles to turn traffic signals green, providing them the right of way during an emergency.
Traffic signal preemption system
In the combustible process, fuel is the material being burned in the combustion process and can be a liquid, solid or
Gas
What is the primary difference between a residential sprinkler system and a commercial sprinkler system.
Component size
What can aid a fire department when conducting station tours?
Standard Procedures
What type of company provides fire fighters who deliver water to the fire scene, deploy hose lines, and connect and extinguish fires in vehicles and structures?
Engine
Exit access, exit, and exit discharge all make up a(n)?
Means of egress
Ordinary sprinkler heads are designed to operate we the device itself is heated to approximately _________?
165F
THe duties of a(n) __________ company include forcible entry, search and rescue, ventilation, provision of ladders, securing of utilities, and overhaul functions at a fire scene.
Truck company
What NFPA standard covers the installation requirements and guidelines for portable fire extinguishers?
NFPA 10
What type of gas is produced when there is incomplete combustion of burning fossil fuels such as gasoline, wood, coal, propane, oil, methane?
CO
Which legislation ensures all medical records, medical, billing, and patient records meet certain consistent standards with regard to documentation, handling and privacy?
HIPPA
What is the minimum information a safety educator should know about costs associated with fire department responses, refusals, extinguishers skills, and other services the department provides?
Contact person, division, phone number of who to call
What percentage of U.S. Households do not have landlines and rely on mobile telephone service?
41%
A(n) ______ is a system of rules, guidelines, methods, and regulations developed and accepted through consensus by probate not for profit organizations with an interest and expertise in that area and made available to governments to formally accept and put into use their jurisdiction.
Model Code
What systems are used to assist a person in record keeping of current medical records such as emergency contacts, medications, and medical history?
Vile of Life
What type of company provides specially trained firefighters and specialized rescue equipment at an incident scene?
Rescue Company
What type of sprinkler system is used in areas such as computer operations centers, telecommunications centers, freezers, libraries, museums, and places housing valuable and irreplaceable items where water damage to property is of paramount concern?
Precaution
