You are dispatched to a multiple vehicle collision on a busy interstate highway. Your crew identifies a critical patient entrapped in a small sedan with significant intrusion into the occupant area on the front and left side. One of your crew members, dressed in fully protective gear, volunteers to enter the vehicle to begin assessment and treatment. Given that access to the patient is limited,
you tell him to concentrate on assessing which of the following parts of the patient's body?
A) Head, posterior torso, and lower extremities B) Torso, pelvis, and lower extremities
C) Head, chest, and upper extremities D) Head, chest, and torso
D
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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 #5 is a 17-year-old male with the following vital signs: respirations 18, pulse 104, alert, crying, and wanting his mother; he is ambulatory. A) Priority 3, green tag B) Priority 4, black tag C) Priority 2, yellow tag D) Priority 1, red tag
The force of trauma applied over a large area is referred to as:
a. blunt trauma. b. ecchymotic trauma. c. penetrating trauma. d. abrasive trauma.
The AED has just been applied to a female patient in cardiac arrest. After analyzing the heart rhythm, it provides a "no shock advised" message. The EMT should immediately:
A) Reanalyze the patient's heart rhythm B) Resume cardiopulmonary resuscitation C) Check the electrodes for proper placement D) Check the patient for a pulse and blood pressure
When Title IX became law in 1972
A. most teams for boys and men were seriously under-funded. B. most girls and women did not want to play sports of any kind. C. more than 10% of all women in college played varsity sports. D. men received about 99% of public school the resources devoted to sports.