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What is the purpose of the HERT team in San Bernardino county?
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- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔To respond to trauma scenes to provide
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advanced surgical care at the scene
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Describe the principles (A,B, and C) of the HERT team in San
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Bernardino county - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Utilized where life
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saving procedures is required to allow for extrication of a trauma
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patient; the team is ready to respond within 20 minutes with
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predetermined, preassembled life saving equipment |\ |\ |\ |\
HERT Team access to the emergency medical scene will be at the
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discretion of whom? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Access to the
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emergency medical scene will be at the discretion of the incident
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commander
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What triage criteria constitutes trauma base contact? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Patients meeting all trauma triage criteria; trauma
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base station contact shall be made
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What is the expected on scene time (under normal
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circumstances) on trauma calls? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔5-10 |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
minutes
, In the Glasgow coma scale Operational Definitions, Compare the
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Child GCS with the infant GCS. What are the differences? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔All three areas are similar with variances |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
from the adult scale in verbal and motor responses
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What is the most important part of the GCS if the patient is
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intubated? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔If the patient is intubated, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
unconscious, or preverbal, the most important part of this scale |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
is motor response
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List the contraindications for utilization of airship transportation: -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The patient falls in these three
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catagories: non decontaminated patients, violent patients, drunk |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
patients, stable patients, ground x port is less than 30 minutes,
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traumatic full arrest |\ |\
If the trauma patient does not meet the "Obvious Death Criteria"
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what base hospital contact must be made for determination of
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death? what must be recorded? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Contact
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a trauma base for determination of death; document asystole in
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at least two contiguous leads, and no reported vital signs during
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the EMS encounter
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If an adequate airway cannot be maintained with a BVM device
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and the paramedic is unable to indicate or if indicated, perform a
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successful needle cricothyrotomy, what shall happen? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Transport to the closest receiving |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
hospital. RSI should be performed in a hospital setting and not on
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scene
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