Ch 45: Multiple Casualty Incidents and Inident Management

Any event that places excessive demands on emergency response personnel and equipment is called a

• catastrophe

• disaster

• multiple-casualty incident

• tragedy

EMTs arriving at an MCI should first report to the unit.

• mobile command

• supply

• staging

• transportation

A typical color-coding system for triage tags assigns high-priority patients the color:

• yellow

• green

• red

• black

In the four-priority triage system, patients who are dead receive what priority level?

• Priority 3

• Priority 4

• Priority 1

• Priority 2

A sudden catastrophic event that overwhelms natural order and causes great loss of property and/or life is called a

• disaster

• calamity

• Force 10 event MCI

• tragedy

The unit responsible for the monitoring, overseeing of inventories, and direction of available ambulances to the treatment unit is called the unit.

• incident command

• staging

• transportation

• communication

The senior EMT who arrives at the scene of an MCI or disaster assumes responsibility as the commander.

• unified

• sole

• incident mobile

• EMS incident

A system used for sorting patients to determine the order in which they will receive medical care or transportation to definitive care is called

• staging

• assessment

• triage

• treatment

Patients should be moved from the triage unit to the treatment unit in order of their

• age

• priority

• seniority

• complaints