HazMat, ICS, Mass Casualty, Flashcards
What agencies developed regulations for dealing with hazmat emergencies?
OSHA AND EPA
An EMT responding to a hazmat incident should be trained at which hazmat training level?
Awareness
What are desirable characteristics of the “safe or cold zone” in a hazardous materials incident?
Upwind, on the same level as the spill.
What is the response agency, established in Washington, DC, as a service of the Chemical Manufacturers Association, that can provide either you or your dispatcher with info about the hazardous material and contact the shipper to provide you with info about the material?
CHEMTREC
Where is the decon corridor located where patients, personnel, and equipment are decontaminated?
Warm zone
Disaster plans are a predefined set of instructions that should be written to address the events that are conceivable for a particular location and which other three parts?
Well publicized, realistic, and rehearsed
ICS systems recognize that the manageable span of control is how many people?
6 people
When several agencies work independently but cooperatively, rather than one agency exercising control over the others, what is this called?
Unified command
EMS operations generally include the Mobile command center and what other 6 areas?
Extrication, staging, triage, treatment, transportation, and rehabilitation.
With START triage, when you arrive on the scene you ask all the patients who can walk to move to one area. These patients are categorized as what?
Priority 3 walking wounded
You arrive on the scene where a school bus has been hit by a train. The bus was in its early stages of picking up students and you only have 5 patients. Your closest unit is 30 min away. How would you triage this patient bases on the scenario: Patient #5 is a 17-yr-old male with these vital signs: respirations 18, pulse 104, alert, crying, and wanting his mother; he is ambulatory.
Priority 3, green tag.
Who is the person that is in charge of tracking the patient’s final destination?
Transportation officer
What 2 types of terrorism does the FBI define as occurring in the US?
Domestic and international
Dangerous organisms that grow inside of living cells and reproduce are known as what?
viruses
Define domestic terrorism.
A small group of people directing violent acts at the population or government without foreign influence.
