Protocols

Question 1

What do green boxes represent in the protocols?

Answer 1

BLS

Question 2

What do yellow boxes represent in the protocols?

Answer 2

ALS

Question 3

What do purple boxes represent in the protocols?

Answer 3

Critical care

Question 4

What do red boxes represent in the protocols?

Answer 4

Airstar

Question 5

What do rounded off grey boxes represent in the protocols?

Answer 5

Initial care

Question 6

What do yellow diamond boxes represent in the protocols?

Answer 6

Questions that will determine the treatment pathway

Question 7

What do rounded off black boxes represent in the protocols?

Answer 7

Statements, usually a condition

Question 8

What do rounded off grey boxes and all caps represent in the protocols?

Answer 8

What to do, such as what action or procedure to perform

Question 9

What do neon green boxes represent in the protocols?

Answer 9

Considerations, these may be outside of the flow chart and need to be performed if indicated

Question 10

What do blue boxes represent in the protocols?

Answer 10

Guidelines and procedures, used to navigate the protocols to go to and from the original guidelines

Question 11

What do the first digits 1 2 and three represent with the unit call sign?

Answer 11

One is Wesley Chapel, two is Sebring, and three is Ocala

Question 12

What do the second digits one, two and three represent with the unit call sign?

Answer 12

One is CCT, two is ALS, and three is BLS

Question 13

What do the last two digits represent what the unit call sign?

Answer 13

01 means the first ambulance, 02 means the second ambulance, and 03 means the third ambulance

Question 14

How long do you have to respond to a pre hospital emergency call for service?

Answer 14

Less than 90 seconds

Question 15

How long do you have to respond for an interfacility emergency call for service?

Answer 15

Less than two minutes

Question 16

How long do you have to respond for a pre hospital or in a facility call for service, non-emergency

Answer 16

Less than three minutes

Question 17

How long do you have to return to service once you arrive to the medical facility

Answer 17

Less than 30 minutes

Question 18

What makes something a level two critical care call instead of a level 1

Answer 18

Four or more total critical care specialty equipment interventions procedures or medications

Question 19

Are crew members allowed to downgrade calls

Answer 19

no

Question 20

Meeting two or more of the following criteria makes a patient a trauma alert

Answer 20

Respiratory rate of 30 or more, a sustained heart rate of 120 or more, best motor response equals 5, soft tissue loss or gunshot wound, sign or symptoms of a single long bone fracture from a motor vehicle collision or a fall of 10 feet or higher, age of 55 years or older, ejection from a vehicle, or a deformed steering wheel

Question 21

Meeting one or more of the following criteria makes a patient a trauma alert

Answer 21

Active airway assistance, lack of radial pulse with sustained heart rate greater than 120, blood pressure of less than 90, GCS of 12 or less, best motor response of four or less, presence of paralysis, suspicion of spinal cord injury, loss of sensation, second or third degree burns greater than or equal to 15% of total body surface area, amputation proximal to the wrist or ankle, any penetrating injury to the head neck or torso, signs or symptoms of a fracture of two or more long bone sites

Question 22

How long should mass casualty incident triage take for each patient

Answer 22

30 seconds or less

Question 23

What does red triage mean in an MCI

Answer 23

Immediate, patient at risk for early death and needs priority treatment

Question 24

What does yellow triage mean in an MCI

Answer 24

Delayed, patient not expected to deteriorate significantly over hours

Question 25

What does green triage mean in an MCI

Answer 25

Walking wounded

Question 26

What does black triage mean in an MCI

Answer 26

Dead or not expected to survive

Question 27

What does DRAATT stand for

Answer 27

Dispatch, response, arrival, assessment, treatment, transport