Emergency Response and MCI Quiz

Any event that places excessive demands on emergency response personnel and equipment is called a

• catastrophe.

• disaster.

• multiple-casualty incident.

• tragedy.

The senior EMT who arrives at the scene of an MCI or disaster assumes responsibility as the

• unified commander.

• sole commander.

• incident mobile commander.

• EMS incident commander.

The unit responsible for distributing the medical materials and equipment necessary to render care is called the

• staging unit.

• extrication unit.

• supply unit.

• triage unit.

A system used for sorting patients to determine the order in which they will receive medical care or transportation to definitive care is called

• staging.

• assessment.

• triage.

• treatment.

In the four-priority triage system, patients who are dead are designated as which priority level?

• Priority 1

• Priority 2

• Priority 3

• Priority 4

The unit responsible for monitoring, overseeing of inventories, and direction of available ambulances to the treatment unit is called the

• incident command unit.

• transportation unit.

• staging unit.

• communication unit.

As an EMT at an MCI, you should not let communication difficulties distract you from

• patient care.

• contacting the incident commander.

• using radio codes.

• direct communication with the receiving hospital.

A sudden catastrophic event that overwhelms natural order and causes great loss of property and/or life is called a

• disaster.

• Force 10 event MCI.

• calamity.

• tragedy.

Critical to any successful rescue effort is an efficient communications system that includes

• multiple frequencies.

• EMT dispatchers.

• E911 capabilities.

• a backup system.

A typical color-coding system for triage tags assigns high-priority patients the color:

• yellow.

• green.

• red.

• black.