Chapter 8

Question 1

What 4 things are the entire process of rescuing?

Answer 1

Locating, accessing, stabilizing, and transporting

Question 2

What is the hallmark of a technical rock rescuer?

Answer 2

Improvise and modify tools

Question 3

What type of rescue obstacles include poor communications, bad lighting, cramped spaces, toxic gasses?

Answer 3

Cave/mine rescue

Question 4

What term is described as floating vertically and shouldn’t be used in cold water?

Answer 4

Survival floating

Question 5

What should one not do if found in water 50° or lower?

Answer 5

Swim to shore unless close

Question 6

What type of PFG’s provide max buoyancy, bulky, will turn an unconscious victim face up, and are only used in rough waters?

Answer 6

Type 1

Question 7

What type of PFD is horse collared, easily donned, will turn an unconscious person face up, and is best suited for general boating and quick rescuing?

Answer 7

Type 2

Question 8

Which PFD contains minimum buoyancy, won’t turn unconscious person face up but will maintain a conscious person face up, easy to swim in, and provide a great choice for SAR.

Answer 8

Type 3

Question 9

Which type of PFD is throwable?

Answer 9

Type 4

Question 10

Which type of PFD are divided into specific activity(designed for what it says on the label), and hybrids(inflatable) and will turn an unoccupied person face up?

Answer 10

Type 5

Question 11

The best way to extend survival time without a PFD is?

Answer 11

Tread water slowly

Question 12

What position helps to increase survival time by 50% in a specific huddle position?

Answer 12

HELP

Question 13

What type of environment requires greater diversity and foundation?

Answer 13

Snow and Ice

Question 14

What form of ice is formed by collection of disk shaped crystals suspended in water, forming a thing opaque layer?

Answer 14

Frazil Ice

Question 15

What type of ice is new ice formed by a hard freeze and is considered the strongest ice?

Answer 15

Clear ice

Question 16

What type of ice is formed by water soaked snow?

Answer 16

Snow ice

Question 17

What type of ice has a stripped appearance formed by refrozen layers of snow?

Answer 17

Layered ice

Question 18

What type of ice forms finger like structures?

Answer 18

Candle ice

Question 19

What type of ice is black?

Answer 19

Rotten ice

Question 20

How many inches of ice is required for walking?

Answer 20

2 inches

Question 21

What is the technique for rescuing people from ice?

Answer 21

“Teach, reach, throw, row, go”

Question 22

What type of avalanche starts when a large area fractures at once? And what type is freefalling ice?

Answer 22

Slab,

Ice

Question 23

Where and when are avalanches most common?

Answer 23

Slopes of 30-50°, shortly after storms (80%), slab on convex slopes, at the same location another avalanche happened, leeward slopes

Question 24

Which type of probing technique is fast, and covers a large are with bad thoroughness, and which is the opposite?

Answer 24

Coarse probing

Fine probing

Question 25

Where is the best places to be during a lightning storm?

Answer 25

Large enclosed structures, under head high clump of trees, enclosed metal vehicles

Question 26

What degree of the core temp is considered hypothermic? What is mild? What is severe?

Answer 26

Below 95 97-91 90 and below

Question 27

What are the 3 dangers in the cold?

Answer 27

Frostbite, frostnip, chilblain, trench foot

Question 28

The Treatment of all heat related injuries is?

Answer 28

Eliminating exposure

Question 29

What are the three heat related injuries?

Answer 29

Heatcramp, heat exhaustion, and heatstroke

Question 30

What are you not suppose to do for frostbite in the field?

Answer 30

Rewarming

Question 31

What altitude problem is the least dangerous, and is heavily associated with headache, traveling 8000 ft or above too quickly

Answer 31

AMS acute mountain sickness

Question 32

Which altitude problem is described as fluid in the lungs brought by assessing too rapidly?

Answer 32

HAPE- high altitude pulmonary edema

Question 33

What altitude problem is fluid in the brain?

Answer 33

HACE- high altitude cerebral edema

Question 34

The best way to treat a snakebite is to: (3 steps)

Answer 34

Identify, immobilize, and evacuate

Question 35

What is not recommended to cross a stream?

Answer 35

Traveling perpendicular to the flow

Question 36

The three types of deserts are:

Answer 36

Mountain, rocky plateau, and sandy

Question 37

On mixed ice/rock climbs, what should you do with crampons?

Answer 37

Wear them through the entire limb if the terrain is 50% suitable for them