Emergency Medical Response 1

Which of the following is a role of emergency medical response teams?

• To assess medical emergencies and transport patients to proper medical facilities

• To control, prevent or clean up hazardous material

• To fight fires and rescue occupants of burning structures

• To gather information about crimes

Where were first aid techniques first created and implemented?

• Highways

• Battlefields

• Hospitals

• Prisons

Who was Edward Dalton?

• The first person to bring ambulance services to civilians

• The Surgeon General of the US Army in 1862

• The individual who founded the first professional police force called the Bow Street Runners

• The man who passed the Metropolitan Police Act to professionalize police in England

Which of the following was NOT a suggestion made by the National Academy of Science’s report on accident deaths?

• Improving first aid training of the general public

• Regulating the dispatch services

• Wearing seatbelts and not driving distracted

• Standardizing the ambulance service equipment

Which of the following is NOT true about the Great Chicago Fire?

• It occurred in October

• It occurred in 1735

• It killed 300 people

• It left 100,000 people homeless

What does an AED do?

• Analyze the heart rhythm

• Deliver a shock

• Indicate whether or not a shock is required

• All of the above

1. Which of the following is a role of emergency medical response teams?

• A. To assess medical emergencies and transport patients to proper medical facilities

• B. To control, prevent or clean up hazardous material

• C. To fight fires and rescue occupants of burning structures

• D. To gather information about crimes

Ambulances services that come from the local fire department would be considered private

• True

• False