Vocabulary Agents and Devices Casualty sorting Terrorism awareness Random
100
Hazardous materials (HazMat)
What are substances that are toxic, poisonous, radioactive, flammable, or explosive and can cause injury or death with exposure?
100
Explosives
What is used to produce a concussion that destroys property and inflicts injury or death?
100
Triage
What is the French word that has come to mean casualty sorting?
100
The systematic use of violence by a group t intimidate a population or government to achieve a goal.
What is terrorism?
100
Command and management
What’s the 1st box in NIMS chart
200
Any agent designed to bring about mass death, casualties, and/or massive damage to property and infrastructure.
What is weapon of mass destruction?
200
Pulmonary agents, pulmonary agents, insecticides, nerve agents, and blister agents.
What are the five categories of chemical agents?
200
Red, yellow, green, and black
What are the four colors of triage?
200
Heart disease
What is the leading cause of death?
200
Circulation (pulse)
What’s the second assessment step in casualty sorting ?
300
Warm zone
What is the control area where personnel and equipment decontamination and hot zone support take place?
300
Salivation/ sweating, lacrimation, urination, defecation/ diarrhea, dastric upset, emesis.
What does SLUDGE stand for?
300
Simple Triage And Rapid Treatment
What does START in the START triage system stand for?
300
Weapon of mass destruction
What is any agent designed to bring about mass death, casualties, and/or massive damage to property and infrastructure.
300
Naturally occurring substances that produce substances
In what category does anthrax, plague, and smallpox fall into?
400
Decontamination
What is the process of reducing or preventing the spread of contamination at a hazardous materials event?
400
Time from exposure to a disease organism to the time the person begins to show symptoms of the disease.
What is an incubation period?
400
Breathing, circulation, and mental status
What three observations is the START triage system based on?
400
Explosives, fire, chemicals, viruses, bacteria, radiation
Name at least 4 methods used to incite terror
400
Blister agents
What kind of agents are sulfur mustard and lewisite?
500
Incendiary device
What is an appliance used to start fires called?
500
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
What are the common signs of sickness due to low radiation exposure?
500
Treat patients by elevating the legs to return as much blood as possible to the brain, lungs, and heart
What treatment is done to patients who have a weak carotid pulse due to shock?
500
Explosives
What is the prefered WMD?
500
Phosgene
A 50 year old man begins experiencing shortness of breath and anxiety about 2 hours after turn in his residential air conditioner on. As you enter his home, you note the smell of freshly cut grass. What has the man been exposed to most likely ?






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