Major Incident Response Flashcards
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The staging area at an MCI is best described as:
Answer: A holding area for resources that are available but not yet assigned
The staging area is a designated location where personnel and equipment wait in ready status until assigned by the operations section.
When using the NIMS framework, 'unified command' is used when:
Answer: Multiple agencies or jurisdictions share incident management responsibility
Unified Command allows multiple agencies with overlapping jurisdiction or functional responsibility to coordinate through a shared command structure.
During a mass gathering event MCI, the 'patient presentation rate' calculation is used to:
Answer: Estimate medical resource needs based on crowd size and event type
Patient presentation rate (patients per 10,000 attendees per hour) helps event medical planners pre-position the appropriate number of EMS resources.
A secondary triage reassessment at an MCI treatment sector is important because:
Answer: It allows reclassification of patients whose condition has changed while waiting
Patient conditions can deteriorate or improve while waiting in treatment sectors, making secondary reassessment critical to ensure correct prioritization.
Which of the following actions is MOST appropriate for a paramedic assigned to the triage sector at an MCI?
Answer: Perform rapid assessments and tag patients, deferring treatment to treatment sector teams
Triage sector personnel perform rapid assessments and tag patients, handing off all treatment to the treatment sector teams to maintain triage throughput.
At an MCI involving a propane tank BLEVE, the PRIMARY hazard driving the initial exclusion zone size is:
Answer: Thermal radiation from the fireball and fragmentation projectiles
A BLEVE produces a massive fireball with significant thermal radiation and propels tank fragments at lethal distances, which drives large initial exclusion zones.
In ICS, a 'branch' is established when:
Answer: The number of divisions or groups exceeds the span of control
A branch is added between the Operations Section Chief and Divisions/Groups when the number of groups or divisions exceeds manageable span of control.