CALIFORNIA HANDBOOK AMBULANCE DRIVER LICENSE EXAM |ACCURATE ANSWERS
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CALIFORNIA HANDBOOK AMBULANCE DRIVER LICENSE EXAM |ACCURATE ANSWERS
How many minimum cots/stretchers? - ACCURATE ANSWERTwo stretchers - one of which is collapsible
Straps must be included for pt
Minimum emergency care equipment and supplies - ACCURATE ANSWER- Ankle and wrist restraints - so...
CALIFORNIA HANDBOOK AMBULANCE
DRIVER LICENSE EXAM |ACCURATE
ANSWERS
How many minimum cots/stretchers? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Two
stretchers - one of which is collapsible
Straps must be included for pt
Minimum emergency care equipment and supplies - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅- Ankle and wrist restraints - soft ties are acceptable
- Sheets, pillow cases, blankets, towels for each stretcher
- 2 pillows
- 3 OPAs - one each of a size for adult, pediatric, infant
- 4+ pneumatic or rigid splints
- Resuscitator - BVM with clear masks for adult, pediatric, infant
- Oxygen supplies must be sufficient to provide a patient with not less than 10 lpm
for 20 minutes
- 12 sterile bandage compresses or equivalent
- 4 3x3 sterile roller bandages
- 6 2,3,4, or 6 inch roller bandages
- 2 rolls of 1,2, or 3 inch adhesive tape
- Bandage shears
- 2 10x30 or larger universal dressings
- Emesis basin - or disposable bags
,- Covered waste container
- Portable suction equipment: squeeze syringes along are NOT - sufficient
- Two sandbags
- Two spinal immobilization devices
One at least 30 inches long
One at least 60 inches long
both with straps
Combination short-long boards are acceptable
- Half-ring traction splint for lower extremity with limb support slings, padded
ankle hitch strap, and heel rest or equivalent device.
- Blood pressure manometer, cuff and stethoscope
- Sterile OB kit. Minimum of: gloves, umbilical cord tape/clamps, dressings,
towels, bulb syringe, clean plastic bags
- A gallon or more of potable water, OR two L of saline solution in covered,
secured plastic container
- One bedpan or fracture pan
- One urinal
Exception for ambulances minimum emergency equipment and supplies -
ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Ambulances while in use for infant
transportation/neonate intensive care nursery services is using truck: they do not
need to carry the equipment or supplies that would interfere with the specialized
care and transport of their pt
Minimum safety equipment - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅- Siren and steady
burning red warning lamp that meets requirements established by the Department
- Seat belts or equivalent restraints for the driver and any front seat passenger
- Fire extinguisher: dry chemical or carbon dioxide. (vaporizing type prohibited)
, - minimum 4-B:C rating
- Portable, battery-operated light
- Spare wheel with inflated tire
- Jack and tools for wheel changes
- GPS or map covering ambulance service area
- Pt compartment door latches operable from inside and outisde - and must be
FIRST REGISTERED AFTER JAN 1 1980
What does the term "Ambulance" define? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅"A
vehicle specially constructed, modified or equipped, and used for the purpose of
transporting sick, injured, convalescent, infirm, or otherwise incapacitated
persons."
How is an ambulance service defined? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A private or
public organization or individual providing an ambulance for use in emergency
service
What defines an emergency call? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A request for an
ambulance to transport or assist persons in apparent sudden need of medical
attention; or, in a medical emergency, as determined by a physician, to transport
blood, any therapeutic device, accessory to such device, or tissue or organ for
transplant
What defines an emergency service - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅a function
performed in response to an emergency call. Emergency service also includes
transportation of a patient, regardless of a presumption of death of the patient, or a
transportation of a body for the purpose of making an anatomical gift
Code 3 operation - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A term used to describe the use
of red lights and siren.
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