Misses 1 Flashcards
Pulse pressure indicating shock
Pulse pressure <30
Prehospital hypotension in a medical patient associated with what increase in hospital morbidity and mortality
30%
When to active event emergency plan at mass gathering
If an escalating event occurs during a mass gathering that creates a mass casualty incident
Two examples of tear gas
Chloroacetophenone (CN) or
o-chlorobenzylidene (CS)
Preparedness vs mitigation
Preparedness: activities that enhance an organization’s capabilities to respond and recover if a disaster does occur.
Mitigation:reducing the potential for a disaster to occur or reducing the potential impact of a disaster
Task force
combination of mixed resources (e.g., four engine companies, four police officers, and a public health epidemiologist) with a common communications capability and headed by a task force leader
Unit in ICS
organizational elements that each have functional responsibility for a specific incident planning, operations, logistics, or finance/administration activity
3 main priorities of ICS (in order)
- Life safety
- Incident stabilization
3.. Property conservation
Medical unit in what ICS section?
Medical branch what section?
Unit - Logistics section
Branch - Operations section
What is clinical equipoise
RCT can only be performed if the researcher is confident enough in the treatment to give it to patients but uncertain enough of it to withhold it from patients
Doing multiple tests on same dataset increases chance of what error
Type I
What does patient centric QI focus on
evaluates if adequate care is provided to specific patients
NFPA 1710
Standard for the Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations
Who is ultimately responsible for all FAA operations of aircraft
Part 135 holder
Most important dispatch element when interrogating a call
gain information to determine the appropriate response
Director leads what in ICS
Branch
Support in ICS
Branch of the logistics section
Documentation in ICS
Unit under planning section
What are casualty collecting points
Casualties are brought to these locations, rapidly triaged, given immediate care and prepared for evacuation
% of CO poisonings that occur in home
75%
Kruskall Wallis test
nonparametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution
Wilcoxon signed rank test
nonparametric statistical hypothesis test used when comparing two related samples, matched samples, or repeated measurements on a single sample to assess whether their population mean ranks differ
Ontario Pre hospital ALS study what type of observational study?
Before and after study
Categorization
classification of the capabilities for an institution compared to an accepted standard
For medical director credentialing process to be effective, what needs to happen?
medical director must have the authority to immediately suspend or limit activities of an EMS provider if he has been found to be incompetent or impaired to the level of danger for the public
Height for barometric pressure to be half of that at sea level
18k feet
5.5k meters
Who coordinates ESF 4
Agriculture
ESF 4 = Firefighting
High reliability organizations do what?
avoid catastrophes, consistently make safe decisions, and have high-quality, reliable operations
Category A diseases
anthrax, botulism, ebola, plague, small pox, and tularemia
First funding for EMS
Highway safety act of 1966
Omnibus reconciliation act
cost containment act that converted 25 Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) funding programs into seven consolidated block grants
High end tidal in asthmatic patient means
Badness (should be normal-low)
CO antidote that causes methemoglobinemia
Sodium nitrite
