Exam 30: Vehicle Stabilization and Victim Extrication

An improvised or rigid cervical collar should be applied before alignment of the legs and body.

If you have to break a window to gain access to a car accident victim, you should do all of the following except:

All of the following are items that would be helpful to have in your first-aid kit to extricate victims in a safe way except:

Gaining access to the victim means getting close enough to the victim to do a hands-on primary survey.

Leave a victim of a motor vehicle accident in place unless there is immediate threat to life.

In most cases, a victim will not have to be moved from a car immediately; you will be able to wait for an emergency team to arrive.

If a victim is found face-down:

If a vehicle is on fire and victims are trapped, deal first with the fire.

Once you are inside the car with the victim, you should do all of the following except:

If the victim appears stable and does not need to be rescued immediately, and a rescue team will be arriving soon, you should:

Before you crawl through a broken window:

If you approach an accident with downed power lines, you should do all of the following except:

Use backboards only if you are trained to do so.

If the vehicle is overturned, place ________ between the roof and the roadway.

To stabilize a standard transmission vehicle, put the transmission in first gear.

To gain access at a car accident, the first route to try is through the car trunk.

You should consider any vehicle unstable until:

During a long extrication procedure, shock combined with temperature extremes can be fatal.

If you approach an accident with downed power lines, you should:

To gain access to a victim means: