The use of safety glass rather than regular glass in automobile windows is an example of what type of method of reducing injuries?
A) Execution
B) Education
C) Enforcement
D) Engineering
Question 2During which essential component of patient assessment does the AEMT determine the safety of the scene and formulate a general impression of the nature of the situation?
A) Primary assessment
B) Reassessment
C) Secondary assessment
D) Scene size-up
Question 3You have been assigned to the triage unit at a multiple-casualty incident. A patient with a yellow triage tag arrives. Your immediate action should be to:
A) re-triage the patient.
B) arrange for immediate transport.
C) obtain vital signs.
D) change the tag to green.
Question 4The means by which energy, often mechanical forces, is transmitted to the body, producing the potential for trauma would be defined as the:
A) field impression.
B) mechanism of injury.
C) rapid trauma exam.
D) secondary assessment.
Question 5You are on the scene of a multiple-casualty incident where a church van carrying 15 parishioners has overturned. You and your partner are in charge of the treatment unit and are presented with the following four patients. Who will you treat first?
A) A 21-year-old man in cardiac arrest
B) An elderly female patient with a femur fracture and a yellow tag on her wrist
C) A confused 69-year-old man with a respiratory rate of 40 and a rapid and weak radial pulse
D) A 13-year-old boy who walked to the treatment area complaining of a severe headache