EMS Chapter 37

Other than personal safety equipment, which of the following should be the MOST readily accessible item in the back of an ambulance?

Upon returning to your station following a run, you should disinfect the ambulance as needed. Disinfection is MOST accurately defined as:

When parking your ambulance at the scene of a motor vehicle crash, you should position the ambulance:

Minimum staffing in the patient compartment of a basic life support (BLS) ambulance includes:

Phases of an ambulance call include all of the following activities, EXCEPT:

While using lights and siren, most state laws permit an ambulance to:

After assessing your patient, you determine that his condition is stable. You provide the appropriate treatment and then load him into the ambulance. While en route to the hospital, you should:

When transporting a patient who is secured to a backboard, it is important to:

When a helicopter must land on a grade (uneven ground), you should:

In general, medivac helicopters should be utilized when:

The six-pointed Star of Life emblem identifies vehicles that:

As soon as you leave the hospital and are en route back to your station, you should inform the dispatcher:

It is 10:30 pm and you have requested air medical transport for a critically injured patient. When you arrive at the designated landing zone, you should:

Minimum airway and ventilation equipment that should be carried on every ambulance include all of the following, EXCEPT:

When working at the scene of a motor vehicle crash at night, you should NOT use:

Characteristics of a safe ambulance operator include:

When driving an ambulance on a multilane highway in emergency mode, you should:

Your unit and a fire department vehicle are responding to the scene of a patient in cardiac arrest. As you approach an intersection that is highly congested, you should:

When transporting a patient to the hospital, you should:

Common activities that occur while you and your partner are en route to the scene of an emergency call include all of the following, EXCEPT:

Which type of ambulance is a standard van, forward-control integral cab-body ambulance?

Which ambulance design has a cab that is mounted on a cut-away van chassis?

The modern ambulance has supplies and equipment to provide emergency medical care at the scene and during transport, to safeguard personnel and patients from hazardous conditions, and to carry out?

Which of the following is NOT a feature of the modern ambulance?

While en route to a call for a major vehicle collision, the MOST important safety precautions that you and your partner can take are?

Which if the following statements about portable and mounted suctioning units on an ambulance is NOT true?

An ambulance's mounted oxygen unit should have a capacity of________ of oxygen

Which of the following items may NOT be included in a jump kit?

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding parking the ambulance?

The most common and often most serious ambulance crashes occur at or on?

Which type of ambulance has brakes with a lighter feel?

Always maintain a safe following distance. Use the____-second rule: stay at least____ seconds behind another vehicle in the same lane.

Which of the following statements about helicopters is TRUE?

If the helicopter must land on a grade, approach the aircraft only from the?

Generally, whom must be notified first when you are calling for a Medivac?

A landing area should be a level surface measuring_____ feet by_____ feet.

Which of the following can you use to mark a landing site?