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Chapter 8 Flashcards

1
Q

What 4 things are the entire process of rescuing?

A

Locating, accessing, stabilizing, and transporting

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2
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What is the hallmark of a technical rock rescuer?

A

Improvise and modify tools

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3
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What type of rescue obstacles include poor communications, bad lighting, cramped spaces, toxic gasses?

A

Cave/mine rescue

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4
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What term is described as floating vertically and shouldn’t be used in cold water?

A

Survival floating

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5
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What should one not do if found in water 50° or lower?

A

Swim to shore unless close

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6
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What type of PFG’s provide max buoyancy, bulky, will turn an unconscious victim face up, and are only used in rough waters?

A

Type 1

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7
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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?

A

Type 2

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8
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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.

A

Type 3

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9
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Which type of PFD is throwable?

A

Type 4

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10
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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?

A

Type 5

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11
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The best way to extend survival time without a PFD is?

A

Tread water slowly

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12
Q

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

A

HELP

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13
Q

What type of environment requires greater diversity and foundation?

A

Snow and Ice

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14
Q

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

A

Frazil Ice

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15
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What type of ice is new ice formed by a hard freeze and is considered the strongest ice?

A

Clear ice

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16
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What type of ice is formed by water soaked snow?

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Snow ice

17
Q

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

A

Layered ice

18
Q

What type of ice forms finger like structures?

A

Candle ice

19
Q

What type of ice is black?

A

Rotten ice

20
Q

How many inches of ice is required for walking?

A

2 inches

21
Q

What is the technique for rescuing people from ice?

A

“Teach, reach, throw, row, go”

22
Q

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

A

Slab,

Ice

23
Q

Where and when are avalanches most common?

A

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

24
Q

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

A

Coarse probing

Fine probing

25
Q

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

A

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

26
Q

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

A

Below 95
97-91
90 and below

27
Q

What are the 3 dangers in the cold?

A

Frostbite, frostnip, chilblain, trench foot

28
Q

The Treatment of all heat related injuries is?

A

Eliminating exposure

29
Q

What are the three heat related injuries?

A

Heatcramp, heat exhaustion, and heatstroke

30
Q

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

A

Rewarming

31
Q

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

A

AMS acute mountain sickness

32
Q

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

A

HAPE- high altitude pulmonary edema

33
Q

What altitude problem is fluid in the brain?

A

HACE- high altitude cerebral edema

34
Q

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

A

Identify, immobilize, and evacuate

35
Q

What is not recommended to cross a stream?

A

Traveling perpendicular to the flow

36
Q

The three types of deserts are:

A

Mountain, rocky plateau, and sandy

37
Q

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

A

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

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