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NAVEDTRA 14295B Ch20
HM Chapter 20: Emergency Rescue
Question | Answer |
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What is a sterile pad or compress used to cover wounds to control bleeding and prevent further contamination? | a dressing |
How large should dressings be? | large enough to cover the entire area of the wound and extend 1 inch beyond the wound edges on all sides |
what are the most common types of bandages? | roller and triangular |
When starting a roller bandage on an extremity where would you start it? | the part of the limb with the smallest circumference |
what type of roller bandage is used for the elblow, wrist, hand, feet and ankles? | a spica or figure eight type bandage |
What bandage is good for bandaging any protruding part of the body? | four-tailed bandage |
What bandage is used for the lower jaw? | Barton bandage |
Where can a triangular bandage be used? | head, shoulder, chest, hip, butt, foot and hand |
what type of bandage is useful to control bleeding of the scalp or forehead and also for the eye? | cravat |
What is a combination compress and bandage in which a sterile gauze pad is fastened to a gauze, muslin, or adhesive bandage? | battle dressing |
What is a portable electronic device capable of analyzing cardiac rhythms and selecting the appropriate strength of defibrillation? | automated external defibrillator |
what are the two types of fluids used for iv drip? | crystalloids and colloids |
What solution is often used for fluid resuscitation after a blood loss due to trauma, surgery, or a burn injury? | lactated ringers solution |
what is a synthetic plasma expander that works by producing expansion of plasma blood volume? | hetastarch |
At what PSI or lower is the oxygen tank considered empty? | 200psi or lower |
An oxygen flow of 15 lpm will deliver an oxygen concentration of what? | 90% |
How do you measure the proper size of an oropharyngeal airway on a patient? | Proper size will extend from the corner of the mouth to the patients earlobe on the same side of the patients face |
What are furnished with each air line and must be worn? | safety belts |
What is a lifeline? | It is a 50 feet long steel-wire cable |
What is the first phase of rescue operations? | removal of lightly pinned casualties |
What is the second phase of rescue operations? | removal of casualties who are trapped in more difficult circumstance |
What is the third phase of rescue operations? | remove casualties where extrication is extremely difficult and time consuming |
What is the fourth phase of rescue operations? | removal of the dead |
What is the first stage of extrications? | gaining access to the casualty |
What is the second stage of extrication? | giving life saving emergency care |
what is the third stage of extrication? | disentanglement |
what is the fourth stage of extrication? | preparing the casualty for removal |
what is the fifth stage of extrication? | removing the casualty |
How do you always move a patient on a stretcher? | Feet first |
What is the most commonly used navy service litter? | stokes stretcher |
What fits within a stokes stretcher and will float a 250lb person? | miller board |
What is primarily used in extrication of a sitting casualty? | short spineboard |
what is one of the easiest ways to carry a casualty whether unconscious or unable to walk? | firemans carry |
With what carry is it possible to carry a heavy casualty for a considerable distance? | pack-strap carry |
What carry is useful when required to crawl underneath low structures? | tied-hands crawl |
What two person carry must never be used to move a person who has an injured neck, back or pelvis? | chair carry |
The primary mission of what aircraft is mass casualty evacuation? | CH-47 |
What hazmat label is solid orange? | explosives |
what hazmat label is solid green? | non-flammable gases |
what hazmat label is solid red? | flammable liquids |
what hazmat label is white ad red stripes? | flammable solids |
what hazmat label is solid yellow? | oxidizers and peroxides |
What hazmat label is half white/ half yellow with black radiation symbol? | radioactive materials |
what hazmat label is half white / half black? | corrosives |
Red on the hazmat diamond shaped label indicates what? | flammability |
Yellow on the hazmat diamond shaped label indicates what? | reactivity |
White on the hazmat diamond shaped label indicates what? | special hazards |
Blue on the hazmat diamond shaped label indicates what? | blue |
What is the health hazard level 4? | deadly |
what is the health hazard level 3? | extreme danger |
what is the health hazard level 2? | hazardous |
what is the health hazard level 1? | slightly hazardous |
what is the health hazard level 0? | normal material |
What is the process of removing or neutralizing and properly disposing of contaminants that have accumulated on personnel and equipment? | decontamination |