MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF ACTS OF TERRORISM AND DISASTER: A NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE, 2ND EDITION Final Examination Questions Select the best answer for each question complete your test online at EliteLearning.com/Book
170. There are many types of emergencies. One type that is a manmade event intended to cause as much psychological damage as physical damage is a: a. Terrorism attack. b. Local disaster. c. Regional emergency. d. Natural disaster. 171. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Alert Network was developed to share information about public health incidents with: a. The US Public Health Department and other federal agencies. b. All federal and state public health agencies. c. National, state, US territorial governments, tribal governments, and local public health practitioners, along with healthcare clinicians and public health laboratories. d. Any state emergency preparedness association, all disaster volunteer organizations, and the National American Red Cross. 172. Chemical terrorist attacks use chemical agents that may be absorbed by: a. Clothing and transmitted to the skin. b. The skin, lungs, or gastrointestinal track. c. Soles of the feet and hands. d. Prolonged contact with the internal organs. 173. Radiological dispersal devices are designed to spread: a. Alpha radiation over a wide geographic area. b. Any type of radiation through contact vectors. c. Powdered forms of gamma radiation with an explosive device. d. Radiological materials via explosive detonation. 174. The purpose of a weapon of mass destruction is to: a. Spread mass panic over as large an audience as possible with actual physical damage being of secondary intent. b. Injure or kill significant numbers of bystanders, first responders, military personnel, or other victims. c. Destroy architecture to cause falling debris that inflicts a larger geographic area and kills first responders. d. Cause physical injury to as many people as possible in as wide a geographical area as possible. 175. In caring for the victim of a terrorist attack, the first priority is to: a. Provide CPR to the victim until emergency medical personnel transports the victim to a hospital. b. Identify the number of victims needing triage and relay the information to incident command to ensure proper planning for the response. c. Ensure the first responders are safe so that more victims do not result. d. Triage the victims into those who can be saved from those who cannot to ensure the most victims possible are saved.
176. A terrorist is someone who: a. Intentionally commits, causes, aids, furthers, or conceals an act of terrorism or attempts to commit, cause, aid, further or conceal an act of terrorism. b. With any means of oral, written or electronic communication, knowingly make[s] any threat or convey[s] any false information concerning an act of terrorism. c. Provides material support, be it financial, logistical, informational, or other forms, to anyone attempting to disrupt or destroy physical property or harm another human being for political purposes. d. Attempts to use a substance that appears to a reasonable person to be a weapon of mass destruction, biological agent, chemical agent, radioactive agent or other lethal agents, any toxin, or any delivery system for use as a weapon. 177. The purpose of syndromic surveillance is to: a. Provide information that will allow local, county, and state officials in Nevada the ability to respond to a disaster or terrorist event with the appropriate personnel and equipment needed to respond to the event. b. Monitor emerging trends for reporting to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and US Public Health Department. c. Alert all healthcare providers to emerging disease trends and predictions of local area epidemic possibilities. d. Detect outbreaks, monitor disease trends, and provide analysis and feedback of the outbreak and trend to allow public health agencies to monitor real-time statuses of an event. 178. Personal protective equipment is primarily intended to: a. Protect anyone who responds to any type of emergency, disaster, or terrorist attack from respiratory, dermal, or oral absorption of specific agents. b. Protect the nurse or other healthcare responder from c. Protect the responder to an emergency, disaster, or terrorist event from all possible forms of biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, or explosive mass casualty events. d. Protect the responder to a radiological explosion from inhaling, absorbing, or ingesting radioactive alpha, beta, or gamma radiation. 179. In January 2017, the US Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), established rules that: a. Quarantine anyone who acts with gross negligence in a disaster. b. Allow the CDC to quarantine individuals for up to 12 days. c. Establish the CDC as the primary agency to provide disaster relief in a national emergency. d. Suspend due process related to individuals who may be suspected of carrying a communicable disease. airborne, dermal, radiological, or other forms of transmission of biological, chemical, or radiological contamination and exposure.
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