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The FIRST rule of safe lifting is to:

• keep your back in a straight, vertical position.

• Use your arms, not your legs
• Bend your back, not your legs
• Lift with your back, not your legs

The proper technique for using the power grip is to:

• lift with palms up

• lift with palms down

• lift with your back

• lift with your toes

You are attending to a 22 year old female who has overdosed. The patient is unresponsive in an upstairs bedroom. The most appropriate way to bring the patient downstairs is:

• Carry the patient downstairs
• Leave the patient upstairs
• Wait for the patient to regain consciousness
• secured to a fracture board with the strongest provider at the head end.

It is essential that you ____________ your equipment to prevent the spread of disease.

• Decontaminte

• Lick

• Throw away

• Play with

A critical aspect of the rapid extrication technique is to:

• slowly remove a person from a dangerous situation or environment
• maintain stabilization of the spine at all times.

• leave a person in a dangerous situation or environment
• wait for someone else to remove a person from a dangerous situation or environment

Other than personal safety equipment, which of the following should be the MOST readily accessible item in the back of an ambulance?

• Entertainment devices
• bleeding control supplies

• Cleaning supplies
• Food and drinks