Ambulance driver license - California handbook Exam Questions Complete Solutions New Update (A+ Pass)
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Ambulance driver license - California handbook Exam Questions Complete Solutions New Update (A+ Pass)
How many minimum cots/stretchers? - Answers -Two stretchers - one of which is collapsible
Straps must be included for pt
Minimum emergency care equipment and supplies - Answers -- Ankle and ...
Ambulance driver license - California
handbook Exam Questions Complete
Solutions New Update (A+ Pass)
How many minimum cots/stretchers? - Answers -Two stretchers - one of which is
collapsible
Straps must be included for pt
Minimum emergency care equipment and supplies - Answers -- 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 - Answers -
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 - Answers -- 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? - Answers -"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? - Answers -A private or public organization or
individual providing an ambulance for use in emergency service
What defines an emergency call? - Answers -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 - Answers -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 - Answers -A term used to describe the use of red lights and siren.
Authorized to emergency vehicles engaged in police, fire, and live saving services
Convictions - Answers -Convictions that are specified as affecting employment or
certification for the ambulance driver remain convictions regardless of a subsequent
action by the court to dismiss or set aside a guilty verdict.
Ambulance identification - Answers -Name of the public entity that operates an
emergency ambulance service or the name under which the ambulance licensee is
doing business or providing service shall be displayed on both sides and the rear of
each emergency ambulance
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