Paramedic Care Volume 5 Chapter 10v| Questions and Answers Graded A+

What is ADAMS? - A database Because of the cost of air medical transport, it is incumbent on providers to ensure that air medical transport is used: - only for patients who stand to benefit from such care. Which of the following patients may not be suitable candidates for air medical transport in rotary-wing aircraft? - Morbidly obese patients As the reimbursement for air medical helicopter transport increased in 2010, approximately how many helicopter air ambulance (HAA) aircraft were flying in the United States? - 900 One of the most rapidly expanding areas of air medical transport is: - transfer of patients between health care facilities. The crew of an incoming helicopter notifies you that they are approximately five minutes from your location. You need to: - tell them when you can hear and see them. You are on your local 911 ambulance, and you are called to the local emergency department to transport a patient to a cardiac center that is two hours away by ground. The ED doctor tells you that the patient is actively infarcting and needs catheterization. What other recommendation could you make to the ED staff for this patient? - Activate an HAA agency to complete the transfer. You have called air medical transport for a patient with a spinal injury ejected from a car in an area of hilly terrain. The only place the helicopter can land is on a level portion of hillside near the summit. Which of these actions must be avoided in assisting at the landing zone? - Approach the helicopter from the uphill side of the landing zone. If a program needs at least 3 miles of visibility to fly its aircraft, it is probably using which flight rules? - Visual flight rules