EMS OPS - Exam 1 with correct answers
Peak Loads - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Highest volume of calls; daily,
weekly, and time of day
Sets the "gold standard" for EMS - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services
Narcotics should be.... - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Signed for at the
beginning and end of each shift.
Agency charged with protecting worker safety - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔OSHA
Deployment - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Strategy used to maneuver
ambulance and crews in order to reduce response times
Factors of deployment - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔1. location of
facilities to house ambulances
2. location of hospitals
3. anticipated volume of calls
4. specific geographic and traffic considerations.
Primary Areas of Responsibilty ( PAR's ) - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Stationing locations, usually in communities that do not have multiple
,strategically located stations, where ambulances are 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 - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Pilot can fly visually,
without instruments ) and be able to see 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 air ambulances - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔FAA
Type 1 ambulance - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔conventional truck cab-
chasis with a modular ambulance body
Type 2 ambulance - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔standard van, forward
control integral cab-body ambulance
Type 3 ambulance - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔specialty van, forward
control integral cab-body ambulance
Essential equipment - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔items to be carried on
every ambulance
, State standards - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Usually set minimum
standards, rather than a gold standard, for operation.
Local/regional EMS standards - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Usually
much more detailed and often approach a gold standard.
Who issues federal regulations specifying ambulance design - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔The U.S. General Services Administration's Automotive
Commodity Center
DOT KKK 1822F - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔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 compartments of ambulances - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA)
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( NIOSH )
Organizations which give input for air ambulance standards - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔- 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 ) - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔Specifies the radio bands and types of equipment that may be
used in ambulances.
Peak Loads - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Highest volume of calls; daily,
weekly, and time of day
Sets the "gold standard" for EMS - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services
Narcotics should be.... - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Signed for at the
beginning and end of each shift.
Agency charged with protecting worker safety - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔OSHA
Deployment - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Strategy used to maneuver
ambulance and crews in order to reduce response times
Factors of deployment - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔1. location of
facilities to house ambulances
2. location of hospitals
3. anticipated volume of calls
4. specific geographic and traffic considerations.
Primary Areas of Responsibilty ( PAR's ) - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Stationing locations, usually in communities that do not have multiple
,strategically located stations, where ambulances are 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 - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Pilot can fly visually,
without instruments ) and be able to see 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 air ambulances - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔FAA
Type 1 ambulance - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔conventional truck cab-
chasis with a modular ambulance body
Type 2 ambulance - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔standard van, forward
control integral cab-body ambulance
Type 3 ambulance - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔specialty van, forward
control integral cab-body ambulance
Essential equipment - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔items to be carried on
every ambulance
, State standards - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Usually set minimum
standards, rather than a gold standard, for operation.
Local/regional EMS standards - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Usually
much more detailed and often approach a gold standard.
Who issues federal regulations specifying ambulance design - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔The U.S. General Services Administration's Automotive
Commodity Center
DOT KKK 1822F - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔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 compartments of ambulances - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA)
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( NIOSH )
Organizations which give input for air ambulance standards - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔- 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 ) - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔Specifies the radio bands and types of equipment that may be
used in ambulances.
