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Hazardous materials (HazMat)
What are substances that are toxic, poisonous, radioactive, flammable, or explosive and can cause injury or death with exposure?
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Explosives
What is used to produce a concussion that destroys property and inflicts injury or death?
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Triage
What is the French word that has come to mean casualty sorting?
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The systematic use of violence by a group t intimidate a population or government to achieve a goal.
What is terrorism?
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Command and management
What’s the 1st box in NIMS chart
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Any agent designed to bring about mass death, casualties, and/or massive damage to property and infrastructure.
What is weapon of mass destruction?
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Pulmonary agents, pulmonary agents, insecticides, nerve agents, and blister agents.
What are the five categories of chemical agents?
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Red, yellow, green, and black
What are the four colors of triage?
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Heart disease
What is the leading cause of death?
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Circulation (pulse)
What’s the second assessment step in casualty sorting ?
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Warm zone
What is the control area where personnel and equipment decontamination and hot zone support take place?
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Salivation/ sweating, lacrimation, urination, defecation/ diarrhea, dastric upset, emesis.
What does SLUDGE stand for?
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Simple Triage And Rapid Treatment
What does START in the START triage system stand for?
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Weapon of mass destruction
What is any agent designed to bring about mass death, casualties, and/or massive damage to property and infrastructure.
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Naturally occurring substances that produce substances
In what category does anthrax, plague, and smallpox fall into?
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Decontamination
What is the process of reducing or preventing the spread of contamination at a hazardous materials event?
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Time from exposure to a disease organism to the time the person begins to show symptoms of the disease.
What is an incubation period?
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Breathing, circulation, and mental status
What three observations is the START triage system based on?
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Explosives, fire, chemicals, viruses, bacteria, radiation
Name at least 4 methods used to incite terror
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Blister agents
What kind of agents are sulfur mustard and lewisite?
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Incendiary device
What is an appliance used to start fires called?
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Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
What are the common signs of sickness due to low radiation exposure?
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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?
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Explosives
What is the prefered WMD?
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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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