Upon arriving at the scene of an overturned tanker truck or train derailment, you should be most suspicious that a hazardous material is involved if:

What is the purpose of the initial assessment (primary survey)?

Upon completing your rapid full-body exam of an unresponsive trauma patient’s head and neck, you should next:

Which of the following is the most important consideration during a pandemic?

If an EMS agency is providing relief to a neighboring community during a disaster, it is important to ensure that:

Knowledge of the specific hazardous material involved in an incident is most important because:

An adult patient presents with a blood pressure of 78/60 mm Hg, a pulse rate of 120 beats/min and irregular, and labored breathing. Further assessment reveals pale, cool, moist skin and diffuse crackles in all lung fields. You should suspect:

Slander is:

Paula owns an old house in a large city. The house belonged to her parents, and she grew up living in it. She has spent $120,000 on improvements to the house. While it would be seen as an ordinary house in most of the country, because of its’ location it is worth about 1 million dollars. Paula’s house is immediately to the east of a large piece of property recently purchased by Chopper Inc. Chopper Inc. is a helicopter tour business. The City has agreed to let Chopper Inc. fly aerial tours of the city and the nearby countryside. The city specified a normal flight plan for the helicopters because of the noise they make. The helicopters could not immediately fly west because that would take them ove the hospital art low altitude. They could not fly South because that would fly over the City Hall complex. And they could not fly North because that would disturb classes at the local grade school. The only option was for the initial low altitude flight plan right after takeoff was to fly over Paula’s house to the east of Chopper Inc.’s land. During the day this could mean an overflight every 20 minutes. Paula wants compensation for her whole property, or if that fails, wants the city to come up with a different flight path. What arguments can Patty make to support her desired outcomes? What arguments will the city use to justify their plan?

Which part of a medical term tells us “what is going on/action?”