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You and your partner are in the Hot Zone of a HAZMAT. You feel tingling in your fingers and loosen your gloves. You feel your heart pounding. What should be your FIRST action?

Establishing a communication framework is the ultimate responsibility of the incident commander. Effective radio communications during a major incident requires:

A patient has overdosed on 4 jugs of Maalox (Rolaids). The blood gases should reveal:

When triaging using START, a victim has a respiratory rate of 16, a palpable radial pulse of 100. What action should the Paramedic do next?

You respond to a respiratory distress call when the patient tells you I can’t catch my breath. When documenting the patient’s statement(s) you should:

You respond to a downtown sidewalk cafe. Lying in a pool of blood is a 50-year-old male with a “drive-by” shotgun wound to the chest. The best crime scene procedure includes:

You are caring for a 66-year-old man with terminal cancer. He is conscious and alert without evidence of mental incapacitation. You offer him oxygen, but he refuses to accept it, stating “Just let me die with dignity!” The best strategy in this situation is:

Conditions such as airway obstruction, flail chest, and COPD initially result in what acid-base condition?

_____________ is the predominant intracellular cation; _________________ is the predominant extracellular cation.

Your crew is dispatched to a plane crash in an industrial complex that is rich in hazardous materials. To assist the incident commander in maintaining an effective span of control, sections and section chiefs are created and utilized. Your medical crew should be working under which section?