You are dispatched to the staging area of a terrorist-related chemical exposure. The incident commander asks you to stand by while hazmat personnel bring patients to the cold zone. As an EMT on-board an ambulance, what statement BEST describes your role?
A) Coordinate hazmat response. B) Transport patients to be decontaminated.
C) Triage patients to be decontaminated. D) Transport decontaminated patients.
D
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a. None (N/A): no review of systems having been documented b. Pertinent: 1 review of system c. Extended: between 2 and 9 systems reviewed d. Complete: more than 10 systems reviewed
The primary oxidizing agent in most fires is:
A. carbon. B. oxygen. C. nitrogen. D. hydrogen.
Which of the following is (are) used in the measurement of tidal volume on a CareFusion AVEA ventilator?
1. Variable-orifice pneumotachometer 2. Pressure differential pneumotachometer 3. Ultrasonic flow sensor 4. Hot wire flow sensing device a. 1 only c. 2 and 3 b. 1 and 4 d. 1, 3, and 4
Putrefaction starts between 36 and 48 hours after clinical death.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)