TEST BANK for Emergency Care 13th Edition by Daniel Limmer, Michael F. O'Keefe and Edward T. Dickinson, All Chapters 1 - 41||Complete Guide A+||Latest Update

TEST BANK for Emergency Care 13th Edition
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by Daniel Limmer, Michael F. O'Keefe and Edward T. Dickinson,
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All Chapters 1 - 41 Covered
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1) Which of the following groups is credited with developing the
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sd earliestd ocumented emergency medical service?
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C) The Mayans sd




D) The French - Explanation: A) INCORRECT. The Spanish did not
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sd developthe first documented emergency medical service; the French did in the
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sd 1790, the French first began transporting wounded soldiers away from
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sd battlefields and to waiting medical care.
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C) INCORRECT. The earliest documented emergency medical service was in
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sd France in 1790, nearly a thousand years after the Mayan civilization
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disappeared.
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sd 1790when the French began transporting wounded soldiers from the scenes
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2) In 1966 the National Highway Safety Act charged which of the
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sd followingagencies with the development of emergency medical service
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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 - Explanation: A) CORRECT.
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s d Department of Transportation (DOT) with developing EMS standards and
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sd assisting the states tou pgrade the quality of their prehospital emergency care.
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B) INCORRECT. The U.S. Department of the Interior is charged with the sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd




sd management and conservation of federal land and the country's natural
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resources. The Department of Transportation was charged with developing EMS
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sd StatesDepartment of Transportation was assigned the task of developing
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sd did not exist in 1966. It was the U.S. Department of Transportation that was
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