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(If you are not one of my students you can access a copy of the flowchart and a review of S.T.A.R.T.
at:
http://www.cert-la.com/triage/start.htm)
For hints on how to take/pass multiple choice tests, go to: How to pass a Red Cross written test
I suggest you take the quiz twice, once without using the flowchart, then again, consulting the
flowchart,
B) Does the victim know who they are, where they are, what day/time it is, what happened to them,
the name of the last team to win the World Series?
4) A victim appears quite still when you get to them. You shake the victim and shout. They do not
respond.
C) Shout again
B) Ask their spouse sitting by them to put their hand on the bleeding and squeeze
A) Your safety
10) When you perform a capillary refill test, the victim passes if
11) When you check the victim’s rate of breathing, they don’t pass if
12) You checked a victim’s breathing and they are breathing at a rate of more than 30 times per
minute.
13) You opened a victim’s airway and they were not breathing.
D) Tag delayed
C) Open airway
15)
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C) Apply bandaging
D) B and C
A) Control bleeding
C) Clean out tiny fragments of glass from the bottom of feet because people did not have shoes by
their bed to put on after the quake
D) Apply bandaging
A) Control bleeding
C) Apply bandaging
D) A, B and C
C) A and B
A) Respiration
B) Perfusion
C) Capillary refill
A) To separate out the victims who can at least respond to your questions
B) To separate out the victims who are able to walk on their own
C) To separate the loud victims from the rest of the group so others can get rest
A) CPR
B) Cool a burn
C) Treat hypothermia
23)
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A) Respiration
B) Voice triage
C) Capillary refill
A) Team spirit
C) Mental status
26) If someone fails the mental status test, you should tag them:
C) Indecisive leadership
D) All of the above
A) Place a clean dressing, apply direct pressure, peek under the dressing
B) Place a clean dressing, apply direct pressure, after ten minutes you can peek under the dressing
A) A wire splint
B) A piece of cardboard
E) A, B, or C
30) You should always get the permission of a sane, sober, conscious adult before you conduct a
head-to-toe assessment. To do this you should:
A) Identify yourself
C) Tell them an ambulance is coming, even if it is a disaster situation where there won’t be one
arriving
D) A and B
32) To protect yourself:
B) Have a partner witness if you need to remove jewelry before swelling starts on an unconscious
victim or look for their wallet to ID them
C) You and your partner should always size-up a situation/building before entering
D) Drink lots of water, use an over 15 sun-protection-factor sunscreen and when it’s cold, wear non-
cotton longjohns (like polypropylene, wool or silk).
33) Victims in the treatment area should be positioned in a head-to-toe configuration, with two
to three feet between victims:
D) A and B
D) Change gloves between each victim, or under extreme field conditions, use rubber gloves,
sterilizing them between victims by washing in a bleach and water solution of one part bleach to ten
parts water
E) If you wear gloves you won’t have to wash your hands afterwards
35) You are triaging victims in a building after an earthquake. You come upon a victim partially
trapped under heavy debris. They are unconscious, but when you open their airway they start
breathing. You can’t roll them into the recovery position because their hips are trapped. What do
you do next?
A) Stop triage and get them out from under the debris
D) Take their shoes off them and put them under their neck so as to keep their head tilted and their
airway open.
E) C or D
36) Mark Twain could have been the first to invent a ‘triage’ for managing multiple casualty
incidents when he described rescuing people from a burning boarding house. “In assisting at a
fire in a boarding house, the true gentleman will always save the young ladies first—making no
distinction in favor of personal attractions, or social eminence, or pecuniary predominance—but
taking them as they come, and firing out with as much celerity as shall be consistent with
decorum. There are exceptions, of course, to all rules; the exceptions to this one are:
A) Fiancees
B) Persons to whom the rescuer feels a tender sentiment, but has not yet declared himself.
C) Babies
D) Mothers-in-law
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Answers:
Hey, don’t peek until you have taken the quiz once without the book/flowchart, and once with it!!!
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1) C
2) C
3) D
4) B
5) D
6) B
7) D
8) C
9) A
10) B
11) A
12) D
13) A
14) D
15)
16) A
17) F
18) D
19) D
20) A
21) B
22) D
23)
24) C
25) C
26) A
27) D
28) C
29) E
30) E
31) D
32) F
33) D
34) E
35) C is preferred if you suspect a spinal injury and you know and can quickly teach a modified jaw
thrust as the method of opening the airway, but I was taught D by a fireman in CERT training
decades ago.
36) A
is a one-unit class that is offered at De Anza College in Cupertino, Caifornia almost every quarter.
Upon successful completion of the course, each participant can receive an American Red Cross
certification in First Aid (valid two years).