Joint Action Guide for High Threat Environments Manual, October 2016 Flashcards
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There are four primary methods to provide high threat patient care. What are they?
- Escorted Warm Zone (Commonly referred to as a Rescue Task Force)
- Protected Corridor
- Protected Island
- Law enforcement rescue
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_____ is a team(s) of fire / EMS and law enforcement personnel who assemble for the purpose of rapid treatment within a warm zone.
This is done as part of what method of high threat patient care?
A rescue Task force
Escorted Warm Zone Care
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_______ is a pathway secured by law enforcement.
Protected corridor
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The method of high threat patient care in which law enforcement established a protected casualty collection point (CCP) within the structure or area of operations.
Protected Island
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The method of high threat patient care in which law enforcement’s primary mission is to eliminate the threat.
Law enforcement rescue
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What method of high threat patient care is considered the most rapid method for entering area(s) and reaching victims and requires the least amount of officers?
Escorted Warm Zone Care (Rescue Task Force)
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A rescue task force consist of how many police officers?
Minimum of two but four officers is the preferred composition.
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_____ is an area that may be established in order to provide treatment, triage, and other coordinated medical actions while awaiting an evacuation platform to definitive medical care.
Casualty Collection Point (CCP)
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RTF teams will identify the deceased or critically injured within the warm zone with what markings?
Deceased: Black and white striped ribbon.
Critically injured / priority for extraction: Orange and white striped ribbon.
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______ is a set of best practice treatment guidelines for trauma care in the high-threat prehospital environment.
Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC)
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What are the 4 goals of Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC)?
- To establish a medical care framework that balances the threat, civilian scope of practice, differences in civilian population, medical equipment limits, and variable resources for ALL atypical emergencies and mass casualty.
- To provide for aggressive forward deployment and principles for point of wounding management of trauma in high-threat and mass casualty environments.
- To provide care guidelines that account for ongoing threat and operations to minimize provider risk while maximizing patient benefit.
- To identify and treat those casualties with preventable causes of death and keep them alive long enough to reach the hospital; if they don’t arrive alive, there is nothing that the trauma surgeons can do for them.
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