Rn04 Community Health Quiz #4

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A process approach for all sectors to prepare for any emergency or disaster situation that may occur.

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All hazards approach

Front 2

Microorganisms or toxins from living organisms with infectious or noninfectious properties that produce lethal or serious effects in plants and animals.

Back 2

Biologic agents

Front 3

Solids, liquids, or gases with chemical properties that produce lethal or serious effects in plants and animals.

Back 3

Chemical agents

Front 4

A broad style of emergency management, encompassing prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery.

Back 4

Comprehensive emergency management

Front 5

Measures to protect public health and safety, restore essential government services, and provide emergency relief to governments, businesses, and individuals affected by the consequences of terrorism.

Back 5

Consequence management

Front 6

Limitation of an emergency situation within a well-defined area.

Back 6

Containment

Front 7

Situation in which the FBI determines that a terrorist threat is credible and confirms the involvement of a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) in the developing terrorist incident.

Back 7

Credible threat

Front 8

Measures to identify, acquire, and plan the use of resources needed to anticipate, prevent, and/or resolve a threat or act of terrorism.

Back 8

Crisis management

Front 9

The physical process of removing harmful substances from personnel, equipment, and supplies.

Back 9

Decontamination

Front 10

A significant natural disaster or man-made event that overwhelms the affected sate, necessitating both federal public health and medical care assistance.

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Disaster condition

Front 11

Regionally organized teams consisting of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers that can be sent into areas outside their own regions to assist in providing care for ill or injured victims at the location of a disaster or emergency. They provide triage, medical or surgical stabilization, and continued monitoring and care of patients until they can be evacuated to locations where they will receive definitive medical care. Specialty teams can also be deployed to address mass burn injuries, pediatric care requirements, chemical injury or contamination, etc.

Back 11

Disaster medical assistance teams (DMATs)

Front 12

As defined in the Stafford Act, any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the president, federal assistance is needed to supplement state and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and protect property, public health, and safety.

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Emergency

Front 13

A multiagency operational structure that uses a model adopted by the fire and rescue community. It can be used in any size or type of disaster to control response personnel, facilities, and equipment. Its principles include use of common terminology, modular organization, integrated communications, unified command structure, action planning, manageable span-of-control, predesignated facilities, and comprehensive resource management. The basic functional modules can be expanded or contracted to meet requirements as an event progresses.

Back 13

Incident command system (ICS)

Front 14

As defined by the FBI, the federal department or organization assigned primary responsibility to manage and coordinate a specific function--either crisis management or consequence management. They are designated on the basis of their having the most authority, resources, capabilities, or expertise relative to accomplishment of the specific function.

Back 14

Lead agency

Front 15

As defined under the Stafford Act, any natural catastrophe (including any hurricane, tornado, storm, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, or drought) or, regardless of cause, any fire, flood, or explosion in any part of the United States that, in the determination of the president, causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance under the Staffod Act to supplement the efforts and available resources of states, local governments, and disaster relief organizations in alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering caused thereby.

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Major disaster

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A disaster situation that results in a large number of victims who need the response of multiple organizations.

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Mass casualty incident (MCI)

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Those activities designed to alleviate the effects of a major disaster or emergency or long-term activities to minimize the potentially adverse effects of future disasters in affected areas.

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Mitigation

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A nationwide medical mutual aid network between the federal and nonfederal sectors that includes medical response, patient evacuation, and definitive medical care. At the federal level, it is a partnership among the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

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National disaster medical system (NDMS)

Front 19

Weapons that release nuclear energy in an explosive manner as the result of nuclear chain reactions involving fission and/or fusion of atomic nuclei.

Back 19

Nuclear weapons

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Equipment designed to shield or isolate individuals from chemical, physical, and biologic hazards.

Back 20

Personal protective equipment (PPE)

Front 21

Activities that build capability and capacity to address potential needs identified by the threat and vulnerability study.

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Preparedness

Front 22

Activities designed to return responders and the facility to full normal operational status and to restore fully the hospital's capability to respond to future emergencies and disasters; activities traditionally associated with providing federal supplemental disaster relief assistance under a presidential major disaster declaration. These activities usually begin within days after the event and continue after response activity ceases. It includes individual and public assistance programs that provide temporary housing assistance, in addition to grants and loans to eligible individuals and government entities to recover from the effects of a disaster.

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Recovery

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Activities to address the immediate and short-term effects of an emergency or disaster. It includes immediate actions to save lives, protect property, and meet basic human needs. Based on the requirements of the situation, assistance will be provided to an affected state under the federal response plan.

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Response

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The act of reviewing the location of an event to look for information that might help to determine treatment options.

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Scene assessment

Front 25

Actions to identify, assess, dismantle, transfer, dispose of, or decontaminate personnel and property exposed to explosive ordinance or WMD.

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Technical operations

Front 26

As defined by the FBI, a violent act or an act that is dangerous to human life, in violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any state, and intended to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives.

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Terrorist incident

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Process of prioritizing which patients are to be treated first; first action in any disaster response.

Back 27

Triage

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As defined by Title 18, U.S. C. 2332a, (1) any destructive device as defined in section 921 of this title, which reads any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas, bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce, mine or device similar to the above, (2) poison gas; (3) any weapon involving a disease organism; or (4) any weapon designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life.

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Weapon of mass destruction (WMD)

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Agents injure or kill through variety of means: vesicant, nerve, blood, respiratory

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Chemical

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Disease-causing organisms (bacteria, viruses, toxins)

Back 30

Biologic

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Ionizing radiation able to strip electrons from atoms, causing chemical changes in molecules; expression may be delayed; radiation depends on time, distance, shielding, and quantity of radioactive material

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Radiologic

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Consists of blast range effects, thermal radiation, nuclear radiation, and radioactive fallout

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Nuclear

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Most common method for terrorists; capable of violent decomposition; pressure, temperature changes and propellants cause injury and/or death

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Explosive