Question

Select the letter (a, b, c,d, e, f) with the most appropriate answer

1) The first step is to:

A) Take care of the worst looking victim first

B) Start where you stand

C) Stop, look, listen and think

D) Conduct voice triage

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2) Triage which victim first?

A) The worst looking victim

B) The worst sounding victim

C) The closest victim

D) The youngest victim

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3) An example of check mental status is:

A) Do I remember how to do triage?

B) Does the victim know who they are, where they are, what day/time it is, what happened to them, the name of the last team to win the World Series?

C) Does the victim appear to have been drinking?

D) Can the victim squeeze my hand / finger if I ask him to?

E) Can the victim counts backwards from 100 by threes?

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4) A victim appears quite still when you get to them. You shake the victim and shout. They do not respond.

What do you do next?

A) Go to the next person

B) Open their airway

C) Shout again

D) Tag them red

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5) A victim is moaning. What do you do next?

A) Count respirations for 15 seconds

B) Open their airway

C) Ask them why they are moaning

D) Check their capillary refill

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6) A victim fails to follow a simple command.

What do you do next?

A) Open their airway

B) Tag immediate and treat for shock

C) Count respirations for 15 seconds

D) Control their bleeding

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7) A victim has heavy bleeding. How can you control it?

A) Ask them to put their hand on the bleeding and squeeze

B) Ask their spouse sitting by them to put their hand on the bleeding and squeeze

C) Ask a walking wounded victim to control the bleeding

D) Any of the above

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8) A victim has a capillary refill of 4 seconds.

What do you do next?

A) Open their airway

B) Check capillary refill again

C) Tag immediate and treat for shock

D) Tag delayed and treat for shock

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9) Which is most important?

A) Your safety

B) The safety of the team

C) The victim’s safety

D) Whether the victim lives or not

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10) When you perform a capillary refill test, the victim passes if

A) They refill within one tenth of a second

B) They refill within two seconds

C) They refill within five seconds

D) They think their refill is half full instead of half empty

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11) When you check the victim’s rate of breathing, they don’t pass if

A) They are breathing really fast

B) Their breathing is labored

C) Their breathing is raspy

D) Their breathing is syncopated

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12) You checked a victim’s breathing and they are breathing at a rate of more than 30 times per minute.

What do you do next?

A) Check circulation and control bleeding

B) Check capillary refill and open their airway

C) Check capillary refill and treat for shock

D) Treat for shock

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13) You opened a victim’s airway and they were not breathing.

What do you do next?

A) Try opening their airway again

B) Check capillary refill

C) Tag immediate and treat for shock

D) Tag delayed

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14) Which do you not do during triage?

A) Control severe bleeding

B) Comfort the victim

C) (answer removed)

D) Get the victim out from under heavy debris

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15)To reduce anxiety of a victim you can:

A) Talk with them as you do a head-to-toe assessment

B) Pay careful attention to what they say to you

C) Tell them an ambulance is coming, even if it is a disaster situation where there won’t be one arriving

D) A and B

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16) Which is a part of dealing with bleeding during triage?

A) Control heavy bleeding

B) Rinse a minor wound

C) Apply bandaging

D) B and C

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17) Which do you not do during triage or treatment?

A) Control bleeding

B) Remove an impaled object

C) Clean out tiny fragments of glass from the bottom of feet because people did not have shoes by their bed to put on after the quake

D) Apply bandaging

E) Use Super-glue on a wound

F) B and E

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18) Which is a part of dealing with bleeding during treatment?

A) Control bleeding

B) Rinse a minor wound

C) Apply bandaging

D) A, B and C

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19) Which is a part of dealing with broken bones during triage?

A) Splint the affected part

B) Remove jewelry before swelling starts

C) A and B

D) None of the above

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20) In the memorization rhyme, what does 30 relate to?

A) Respiration

B) Perfusion

C) Capillary refill

D) Public health considerations

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21) You conduct voice triage:

A) To separate out the victims who can at least respond to your questions

B) To separate out the victims who are able to walk on their own

C) To separate the loud victims from the rest of the group so others can get rest

D) To separate the first sopranos from the tenors

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22) Which do you not do during triage?

A) CPR

B) Cool a burn

C) Treat hypothermia

D) All of the above

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23)) You are triaging victims in a building after an earthquake. You come upon a victim partially trapped under heavy debris. They are unconscious, but when you open their airway they start breathing. You can’t roll them into the recovery position because their hips are trapped. What do you do next?

A) Stop triage and get them out from under the debris

B) Ignore them and go on to someone you really can help

C) Have a volunteer walking wounded keep their airway open

D) Take their shoes off them and put them under their neck so as to keep their head tilted and their airway open.

E) C or D

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24) In the memorization rhyme, what does two relate to?

A) Respiration

B) Voice triage

C) Capillary refill

D) Public health considerations

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25) In the memorization rhyme, what does can do relate to?

A) Team spirit

B) Adapt, improvise, overcome

C) Mental status

D) Public health considerations

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26) If someone fails the mental status test, you should tag them:

A) Red, for immediate

B) Yellow, for immediate

C) Green, for immediate

D) Periwinkle, for immediate

E) Plaid, for I’m not sure

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27) The pitfalls of triage include:

A) Inadequate medical size-up

B) No team plan, organization or goal

C) Indecisive leadership

D) All of the above

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28) Control bleeding in this order:

A) Place a clean dressing, apply direct pressure, peek under the dressing

B) Place a clean dressing, apply direct pressure, after ten minutes you can peek under the dressing

C) Glove up, place a clean dressing, apply direct pressure.

D) There is no exact order of the steps.

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29) To splint a broken bone you can use:

A) A wire splint

B) A piece of cardboard

C) part of the Sunday section of the newspaper

D) only FEMA approved splints should be used

E) A, B, or C

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30) You should always get the permission of a sane, sober, conscious adult before you conduct a head-to-toe assessment. To do this you should:

A) Identify yourself

B) State your level of training

C) Explain what you think is wrong

D) Explain what you want to do

E) All of the above

F) Almost all of the above if you are in a hurry

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Answer 1

1) Stop, look, listen and think.

2) The closest victim.

3) Can the victim sqeezze my hand/ finger if I ask him to?

4) Open their airway.

5) Check their capillary refill.

6) Tag immediate and treat for shock.

7) Any of the above.

8) Tag immediate and treat for shock.

9) Your safety.

10) They refill within two seconds.

11) They are breathing really fast.

12) Treat for shock.

13) Try opening their airway again.

14) Get the victim out from under heavy debris.

15) A and B

16) Control heavy bleeding.

17) B and E

18) A, B and C

19) None of the above

20) Respiration

21) B

22) D

23) E

24) C

25) C

26) A

27) D

28) C

29) E

30) E