WorksheetsTriage
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 23mins
Large piece of wood in left thigh. Breathing once every 3 seconds. Color returns to finger tips in less than 2 seconds.
Visibly pregnant (about 5 months), cuts on right arm. Color returns to finger tips in 1 second. Breathing once every 5 seconds. This victim has 1st aid training.
Massive head injury. Not breathing. Unresponsive. Color does not return to finger tips.
Both legs deformed. Breathing once every 3 seconds. Knows name, date and what happened. Color returns to finger tips in 1 second.
Severe bleeding from head wound. Breathing once every 2 seconds. Not responsive to questions. Color returns to finger tips in 4 seconds.
Blood oozing from head wound. Chest is not rising. Finger tips blue/grey.
Facial injuries. Knows name, date, and what happened. Color returns to finger tips in 2 seconds. Breathing once every 4 seconds.
Wood impaled in neck. Breathing once every second. Unresponsive. Color returns to finger tips in 4 seconds.
Compound (open) fracture to right forearm. Breathing once every 3 seconds. Color returns to finger tips in less than 2 seconds. Responds to verbal commands.
Bleeding from a scalp wound. Knows name, date, and what happened. Color returns to finger tips in less than 2 seconds. Breathing once every 4 seconds.
Severe cut on right thigh, heavy bleeding. Breathing once every 5 seconds. Knows name, date and what happened. Color returns to finger tips in 3 seconds.
Severe head injury. Not breathing. Not responsive to questions. Color returns to finger tips in 4 seconds.
Back injury, unable to move. Breathing once every 4 seconds. Knows name, date and what happened. Color returns to finger tips in 2 seconds.
Right arm is deformed. Alert. Color returns to fingertips in 1 second. Breathing once every 3 seconds.
Numerous cuts and abrasions. Responds to verbal commands. Color returns to finger tips in 1 second. Breathing once every 3 seconds.
Which of the following is probably NOT a mass-casualty incident?
a motor vehicle crash with two critically injured patients and two ambulances
a loss of power to a hospital or nursing home with ventilator-dependent patients
an apartment fire with one patient and the possiblility of others trapped in the building
a follover crash of a school bus with eight children who have injuries of various severity
You and your partner are the first to arrive at the scene of a motor vehicle accident. As you approach the scene, you can see multiple patients, some walking and others who are still in their vehicles. You should:
establish an incident command post until you are relieved of your duties
declare a mass-casualty incident and request additional resources
begin rapidly triaging all patients before requesting additional help
immediately move all ambulatory patients to a designated area
Which of the following questions is of LEAST pertinence when the EMT is determining whether or not to declare a mass-casualty incident and activate the ICS?
What will happen if there are more than two patients that require emergency care?
How long will it take for additional resources to arrive at the scene once requested?
How many paramedics are able to respond to the scene and provide advanced care?
How many seriously injured patients can be effectively cared for in my ambulance?
In order to accomplish the goal of primary triage, it is important to:
take no more than 2 minutes to determine the patient's status
keep the triage assessment brief and the patient categories basic
begin life-saving care immediately upon detecting critical injuries
perform a rapid assessment on all patients who appear to be unstable
After primary triage, the triage supervisor should communicate all of the following information to the medical branch officer, EXCEPT:
the total number of patients that have been triaged
the recommended transport destination for each patient
recommendations for movement to the treatment area
the number of patients that are in each triage category
Injuries or conditions that would be classified as first priority (red tag: immediate) include all of the following, EXCEPT:
severe medical problems
fractures of multiple long bones
any airway or breathing difficulty
uncontrolled or severe hemorrhage
You and your partner arrive at the scene where a truck has crashed into a small building, injuring eight people. You immediately request additional ambulances and begin the triage process. The first patient that you triage is a young female who is unconscious and apneic. She has an open head injury and her pulse is weak and thready. You should:
assess the severity of her open head injury
place a red tag on her and continue triaging
begin ventilating her with a bag-mask device
assign her a low priority and continue triaging
The FIRST step in the START triage system is to:
focus on patients who are unconscious
scan the area for patients with severe bleeding
move all walking patients to a designated area
get a quick head count of all the patients involved
According to the START triage system, what should you do if you encounter an unresponsive patient who is not breathing?
Open the airway and reassess breathing status
Assign the patient in the "immediate" category
Ventilate the patient for 2 minutes and reassess
Triage the patient as "expectant" and move on
Upon arriving at the scene of a possible hazardous materials (HazMat) incident involving several patients, you should:
retrieve all critcial patients
rope off the entire perimeter
carefully assess the situation
divert traffic away from the scene
According to the START triage system, which of the following patients should be triaged as an immediate priority (red tag)?
conscious with a respiratory rate of 24 breaths/min
unresponsive with a respiratory rate of 34 breaths/min
apneic, despite manually opening the airway
conscious, in severe pain, with radial pulses present
According to the START triage system, what should you do if a patient is found to have a respiratory rate of 24 breaths/min?
Administer high-flow oxygen
Triage the patient as delayed
Assess for bilateral radial pulses
Assess his or her neurologic status
You are triaging patients at the scene of a multiple vehicle crash when you encounter a young male who is unresponsive and is not breathing. After you open his airway, he begins to breathe at a rapid rate. According to the START triage system, you should:
assist his ventilations with a bag-mask device and perform a rapid scan of his entire body
move him to the treatment area so he can receive a more comprehensive assessment of his status
move to other patients, but reassess him in 5 minutes to determine if he is still breathing
tag him as immediate (red), place him in the recovery position, and move to the next patient
According to the JumpSTART triage system, if a pediatric patient is not breathing, you should:
immediately check for a pulse
triage him or her as expectant
give five rescue breaths and reassess
open the airway and reassess breathing
While triaging patients at the scene of a building collapse, you encounter a young child who is conscious, alert, and breathing; has bilateral radial pulses; and has points to his severely angulated leg, which is not bleeding. According to the JumpSTART triage system, you should:
quickly bind his legs together to stabilize the fracture, and continue triaging
assign him a delayed (yellow) category and continue triaging the other patients
evacuate him to a desgnated area and assign him a minimal (green) category
apply high-flow oxygen, obtain baseline vital signs, and continue triaging
