SRTC Section 7 Exam

The KKK standards deal with:

• training and education of field personnel.

• ambulance safety and design.

• air evacuation of trauma victims.

• minimum standard medical protocols.

Which of the following is optional equipment?

• Flashlights

• Disinfectant solution

• Lubricating jelly

• Infant oxygen masks

While staffing an emergency services dispatch center, an Emergency Medical Dispatcher (EMD) receives a call from someone who is very upset and screaming that her friend was just shot. Which of the following would the EMD need to do in this situation?

• Notify the victim's family of the incident.

• Determine the location of the shooter.

• Ask the caller for her phone number.

• Provide the caller with information on local hospitals.

You respond to a major automobile collision involving multiple patients. Which of the following patients would receive Priority 1 transport?

• 25-year-old with abdominal bruising and signs of shock

• 6-year-old with lower leg fracture and normal vital signs

• 68-year-old with mild respiratory distress and seat belt burns

• 45-year-old with no vital signs

Police escorts of ambulances driving at emergency status are typically discouraged because:

• there is no guarantee that the police officer knows where the call is located.

• ambulances do not move as fast as police cruisers.

• police officers are not accustomed to driving an ambulance.

• drivers who pull over for the police officer often pull back in front of the ambulance.

As it pertains to hazardous materials, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires employers to:

• train employees to handle any type of hazardous materials incident.

• have knowledge of all hazardous materials on the premises.

• document the appropriate level of training for each employee.

• ensure there is at least one person on-site trained at the technician level.

An area near a hazardous materials incident that is upwind from the incident and on higher ground is a good location for a:

• Treatment Zone

• Safe Zone

• Hot Zone

• Danger Zone

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:

• Priority 3 walking wounded.

• Yellow tagged.

• red tagged.

• Priority 4 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 minutes away. Triage this patient based on this scenario:

Patient #3 is a 38-year-old female with the following vital signs: respirations 0, pulse 0, and nonresponsive.

• Priority 1, red tag

• Priority 2, yellow tag

• Priority 3, green tag

• Priority 4, black tag

Using START triage guidelines, a patient on the scene of a mass-causality incident who has no pulse is deemed a ________ patient.

• Priority 2

• Priority 0

• Priority 3

• Priority 1