TEST BANK For Emergency Care, 13th Edition by Daniel Limmer, Michael F. O'Keefe, Verified Chapters 1 - 41, Complete Newest Version TEST BANK For Emergency Care, 13th Edition by Daniel Limmer, Michael F. O'Keefe, Verified Chapters 1 - 41, Complete Newest Version TEST BANK For Emergency Care, 13th Ed...
TEST BANK for Emergency Care 13th Edition
by Daniel Limmer, Michael F. O'Keefe and Edward T. Dickinson,
All Chapters 1 - 41 Covered
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1) Which of the following groups is credited with developing the earliest
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documented emergency medical service?ru ru ru
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B) The Egyptians
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D) The French -
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d emergency medical service; the French did in the 1700s. B)
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INCORRECT. Although known for progress in technical areas, the Egyptians weren
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ot responsible for the first documented emergency medical service. In 1790, the Fr
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ench first began transporting wounded soldiers away from battlefields and to waitin
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g medical care.
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C) INCORRECT. The earliest documented emergency medical service was in Fr
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ance in 1790, nearly a thousand years after the Mayan civilization disappeared.
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when the French began transporting wounded soldiers from the scenes of
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battle to waiting physicians.
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2) In 1966 the National Highway Safety Act charged which of the followinga
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gencies with the development of emergency medical service standards?
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A) U.S. Department of Transportation
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B) U.S. Department of the Interior
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C) U.S. Department of Health Services
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D) U.S. Department of Homeland Security -
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d the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) with developing EMS
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standards and assisting the states toupgrade the quality of their prehospital emer
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gency care. ru
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nagement and conservation of federal land and the country's natural resources.The
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Department of Transportation was charged with developing EMS standards.
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ces is charged with protecting the health of all Americans, the United StatesDepar
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tment of Transportation was assigned the task of developing emergency medical
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