Chapter 38- Vehicle Extrication And Special Rescue Flashcards
What kind of bumpers provide vehicle protection from low-speed impact?
Shock-absorbing bumpers
Avoid standing in front of what kind of bumpers?
Shock-absorbing bumpers
How much clearance should you maintain around the side impact airbags?
5 inches
How much clearance should be maintained around the driver side airbags?
10 inch snipers
Extrication
The removal from entrapment or from a dangerous situation or position
Entrapment
A condition in which a person caught within a closed area with no way out or has a limb or other body part trapped.
Who secures and stabilizes the vehicle and provides safe entrance and access to the patients, safely extricates patients, and provides adequate room so that patients can be removed properly?
The rescue team
Who controls traffic, maintain order at the scene, establish and maintain a perimeter so that bystanders are kept at a safe distance, and ultimately investigate the crash or crime scene?
Law enforcement officers
Who extinguish fires, prevent additional ignition, ensure that the scene is safe,, and remove spilled fuel?
Firefighters
Ten phases of extrication
- Preparation
- En route to the scene
- Arrival and scene size-up
- Hazard control
- Support operations
- Gaining access
- Emergency care
- Removal of the patient
- Transfer of the patient
- Termination
Hazardous materials
Any substance that is toxic, poisonous, radioactive, flammable, or explosive and can cause injury or death which exposure.
If there is a hazardous material, where do you park?
Uphill and upwind
Size-up
The ongoing process of information gathering and scene evaluation to determine appropriate strategies and tactics to manage an emergency, while paying attention to hazards
Such as downed power lines, leaking fluids, fire, and broken glass.
Why do we lift deployed air bags?
To see if there is deformity to the steering wheel or dashboard, which indicates that the patient struck the structure after the airbag deflated.
