Study Guide Emergency Preparedness
and Response Questions and Actual
Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
Disaster Condition - Answer -significant natural disaster or manmade event that overwhelms
the affected area
-necessitates both federal public health and medical care assistance
-large number of victims may require response of multiple organizations
Triage priorities - Answer -greatest good for the greatest number of people
Terrorist Attacks - Answer -terrorism has created the need to prepare against a variety of
different agents
-standardized nomenclature for potential agents (known as CBRBE)
CBRNE - Answer -Chemical
-Biological
-Radiologic
-Nuclear
-Explosive
Chemical Agents - Answer -kill through a variety of means: nerve, vesicant, blood, and choking
-spread easily through air and cause immediate affects
-require decontamination
-require trained hazardous material (Hazmat) teams
-treatment: depends on agent used, may require agent-specific medications, decontamination,
use or PPE
Biologic Agents - Answer -small quantities can have a large affect
-difficult to prepare
-Treatments: depends on agent used, most cause flu-like symptoms, plague and smallpox most
contagious, timing of specific treatment critical, delayed effects
, -often used in conjunction with explosive devices (dirty bomb)
-Treatment:
*immediate effects: radiation burns/acute poisioning
*long term: cancer/contamination of drinking water
*decontamination must occur before patient care can begin
Nuclear Agents - Answer -damage consists of blast range effects, thermal and nuclear
radiation, and radioactive fallout
-contamination can remain for many years
-psychologic effect likely to be substantial
-treatment: symptomatic: thermal burns, shrapnel injuries, and radioactive fallout.
Decontamination is required
Explosive Agents - Answer -most common method of terrorists
-cause violent decomposition and pressure/temp changes; propellents cause injury and/or
death
-Treatment: symptomatic, many required tx of burns
Preparedness Stage - Answer -focused on planning, preparedness, prevention, and warning
-every disaster begins as a local event
-heaviest burden falls on the local community
-state and federal assistance is appropriated when the local system is overwhelmed
Community Preparedness - Answer -assess the community for risks
-plan for a coordinated response effort by local agencies/services
Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) - Answer -Funded by the Department of
Homeland Security
-coordinated with statewide response plans
-Response: expanding hospital based care, enhancing emergency medical transport and ED
capabilities, locating specialized pharmaceuticals, managing mass fatalities, proving mental
health care
and Response Questions and Actual
Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
Disaster Condition - Answer -significant natural disaster or manmade event that overwhelms
the affected area
-necessitates both federal public health and medical care assistance
-large number of victims may require response of multiple organizations
Triage priorities - Answer -greatest good for the greatest number of people
Terrorist Attacks - Answer -terrorism has created the need to prepare against a variety of
different agents
-standardized nomenclature for potential agents (known as CBRBE)
CBRNE - Answer -Chemical
-Biological
-Radiologic
-Nuclear
-Explosive
Chemical Agents - Answer -kill through a variety of means: nerve, vesicant, blood, and choking
-spread easily through air and cause immediate affects
-require decontamination
-require trained hazardous material (Hazmat) teams
-treatment: depends on agent used, may require agent-specific medications, decontamination,
use or PPE
Biologic Agents - Answer -small quantities can have a large affect
-difficult to prepare
-Treatments: depends on agent used, most cause flu-like symptoms, plague and smallpox most
contagious, timing of specific treatment critical, delayed effects
, -often used in conjunction with explosive devices (dirty bomb)
-Treatment:
*immediate effects: radiation burns/acute poisioning
*long term: cancer/contamination of drinking water
*decontamination must occur before patient care can begin
Nuclear Agents - Answer -damage consists of blast range effects, thermal and nuclear
radiation, and radioactive fallout
-contamination can remain for many years
-psychologic effect likely to be substantial
-treatment: symptomatic: thermal burns, shrapnel injuries, and radioactive fallout.
Decontamination is required
Explosive Agents - Answer -most common method of terrorists
-cause violent decomposition and pressure/temp changes; propellents cause injury and/or
death
-Treatment: symptomatic, many required tx of burns
Preparedness Stage - Answer -focused on planning, preparedness, prevention, and warning
-every disaster begins as a local event
-heaviest burden falls on the local community
-state and federal assistance is appropriated when the local system is overwhelmed
Community Preparedness - Answer -assess the community for risks
-plan for a coordinated response effort by local agencies/services
Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) - Answer -Funded by the Department of
Homeland Security
-coordinated with statewide response plans
-Response: expanding hospital based care, enhancing emergency medical transport and ED
capabilities, locating specialized pharmaceuticals, managing mass fatalities, proving mental
health care
