Emergency Care, 13th Edition TEST BANK by Daniel Limmer, Michael F. O'Keefe, Verified Chapters 1 - 41, Complete Newest Version

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1) Which of the following groups is credited with developing the earliestdoc
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mergency medical service; the French did in the 1700s. B)
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INCORRECT. Although known for progress in technicalareas, the Egyptians werenot r
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esponsible for the first documented emergency medical service. In 1790, the French fir
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st began transporting wounded soldiers away from battlefields and to waiting medical c
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ce in 1790, nearly a thousand years after the Mayan civilization disappeared.
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en the French began transporting wounded soldiers from the scenes of
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2) In 1966 the National Highway SafetyAct charged which of the followingage
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ncies with the development of emergency medical service standards?
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A) U.S. Department ofTransportation
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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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ds and assisting the states toupgrade the quality of their prehospital emergency care.
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B) INCORRECT. The U.S. Department of the Interior is charged with the manag tv tv tv tv tv tv tv tv tv tv tv




ement and conservation of federal land and the country's natural resources.The Depar
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tment ofTransportation was charged with developing EMS standards.
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is charged with protecting the health of allAmericans, the United StatesDepartment o
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f Transportation was assigned the task of developing emergency medical service sta
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tasked with protecting the nation from threats, it was established in 2002 and didnot e
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xist in 1966. It was the U.S. Department of Transportation that was chargedwith deve
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