EMS OPS - Exam 1 questions with
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Peak Loads - ANS ✔✔Highest volume of calls; daily, weekly, and time of day
Sets the "gold standard" for EMS - ANS ✔✔Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services
Narcotics should be.... - ANS ✔✔Signed for at the beginning and end of each shift.
Agency charged with protecting worker safety - ANS ✔✔OSHA
Deployment - ANS ✔✔Strategy used to maneuver ambulance and crews in order to reduce
response times
Factors of deployment - ANS ✔✔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 ) - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔FAA
Type 1 ambulance - ANS ✔✔conventional truck cab-chasis with a modular ambulance body
Type 2 ambulance - ANS ✔✔standard van, forward control integral cab-body ambulance
Type 3 ambulance - ANS ✔✔specialty van, forward control integral cab-body ambulance
Essential equipment - ANS ✔✔items to be carried on every ambulance
State standards - ANS ✔✔Usually set minimum standards, rather than a gold standard, for
operation.
Local/regional EMS standards - ANS ✔✔Usually much more detailed and often approach a gold
standard.
Who issues federal regulations specifying ambulance design - ANS ✔✔The U.S. General Services
Administration's Automotive Commodity Center
DOT KKK 1822F - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔- National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration(NHTSA)
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( NIOSH )
Organizations which give input for air ambulance standards - ANS ✔✔- 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 ) - ANS ✔✔Specifies the radio bands and types
of equipment that may be used in ambulances.
Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services ( CAAS ) - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔CAAS requires services to develop guidelines
that meet or exceed those established the American College of Surgeons ( ACS ).
First list of "essential equipment" to be carried on ambulances - ANS ✔✔Issued by the ACS in
1970 and revised in 1994, included emergency drugs and fluids that are still used today.
Advantages of a supply checklist - ANS ✔✔- reminds employees exactly where all equipment
and supplies are stored on the ambulance
- helps to ensure that all equipment and supplies will be available and in working order when
needed for patient care.
- makes the work environment safer by ensuring mechanical maintenance and availability of
PPE
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Peak Loads - ANS ✔✔Highest volume of calls; daily, weekly, and time of day
Sets the "gold standard" for EMS - ANS ✔✔Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services
Narcotics should be.... - ANS ✔✔Signed for at the beginning and end of each shift.
Agency charged with protecting worker safety - ANS ✔✔OSHA
Deployment - ANS ✔✔Strategy used to maneuver ambulance and crews in order to reduce
response times
Factors of deployment - ANS ✔✔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 ) - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔FAA
Type 1 ambulance - ANS ✔✔conventional truck cab-chasis with a modular ambulance body
Type 2 ambulance - ANS ✔✔standard van, forward control integral cab-body ambulance
Type 3 ambulance - ANS ✔✔specialty van, forward control integral cab-body ambulance
Essential equipment - ANS ✔✔items to be carried on every ambulance
State standards - ANS ✔✔Usually set minimum standards, rather than a gold standard, for
operation.
Local/regional EMS standards - ANS ✔✔Usually much more detailed and often approach a gold
standard.
Who issues federal regulations specifying ambulance design - ANS ✔✔The U.S. General Services
Administration's Automotive Commodity Center
DOT KKK 1822F - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔- National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration(NHTSA)
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( NIOSH )
Organizations which give input for air ambulance standards - ANS ✔✔- 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 ) - ANS ✔✔Specifies the radio bands and types
of equipment that may be used in ambulances.
Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services ( CAAS ) - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔CAAS requires services to develop guidelines
that meet or exceed those established the American College of Surgeons ( ACS ).
First list of "essential equipment" to be carried on ambulances - ANS ✔✔Issued by the ACS in
1970 and revised in 1994, included emergency drugs and fluids that are still used today.
Advantages of a supply checklist - ANS ✔✔- reminds employees exactly where all equipment
and supplies are stored on the ambulance
- helps to ensure that all equipment and supplies will be available and in working order when
needed for patient care.
- makes the work environment safer by ensuring mechanical maintenance and availability of
PPE
