EMS OPS - Exam 1 Questions and Answers
Peak Loads - Correct Answer ️️ -Highest volume of calls; daily, weekly, and time of
day
Sets the "gold standard" for EMS - Correct Answer ️️ -Commission on Accreditation of
Ambulance Services
Narcotics should be.... - Correct Answer ️️ -Signed...
EMS OPS - Exam 1 Questions and Answers Peak Loads - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-Highest volume of calls; daily, weekly, and time of day Sets the "gold standard" for EMS - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services Narcotics should be.... - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-Signed for at the beginning and end of each shift. Agency charged with protecting worker safety - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-OSHA Deployment - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-Strategy used to maneuver ambulance and crews in order to reduce response times Factors of deployment - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-1. location of facilities to house ambulances 2. location of hospitals 3. anticip ated volume of calls 4. specific geographic and traffic considerations. Primary Areas of Responsibilty ( PAR's ) - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-Stationing locations, usually in communities that do not have multiple strategically located stations, where ambulances a re deployed to wait for calls at specific, high volume locations. PAR size depends on the number of ambulances available and the expected call volume. Visual Flight Rules - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-Pilot can fly visually, without instruments ) and be able to s ee a visible horizon for orientation. Most EMS programs in the United States operate on visual flight rules; train to fly on instruments in an emergency only when poor conditions can not be avoided. Organization with authority to regulate operation of ai r ambulances - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-FAA Type 1 ambulance - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-conventional truck cab -chasis with a modular ambulance body Type 2 ambulance - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-standard van, forward control integral cab -
body ambulance Type 3 ambulance - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-specialty van, forward control integral cab -
body ambulance Essential equipment - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-items to be carried on every ambulance State standards - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-Usually set minimum standards, rather than a gold standard, for operation. Local/regional EMS standards - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-Usually much more detailed and often approach a gold standard. Who issues federal regulations specifying ambulance design - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-The U.S. General Services Administration's Aut omotive Commodity Center DOT KKK 1822F - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-attempt to influence safety standards as well as standardize the look of ambulances. Organizations collaborating to improve existing standards to make patient and ems workers safer in rear compar tments of ambulances - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA) - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( NIOSH ) Organizations which give input for air ambulance standards - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-- Air and Surface Transport Nurses Association ( ASTNA ) - International Association of Flight and Critical Care Paramedics ( IAFCCP ) - Association of Air Medical Services ( AAMS ) The Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-Specifies the radio bands and types of equipment that may be used in ambulances. Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services ( CAAS ) - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-
National level, provides a voluntary gold standard for the EMS community to follow. - requires that onboard medical equipment and supplies comply with state and local guidelines. In the absence of guidelines set by CAAS - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-CAAS requires services to develop guidel ines that meet or exceed those established the American College of Surgeons ( ACS ). First list of "essential equipment" to be carried on ambulances - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-
Issued by the ACS in 1970 and revised in 1994, included emergency drugs and fluids that are still used today.
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