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1. Congratulations! You have been accepted as a member of your local first aid squad. You have been trained in CEVO (Coaching the Emergency Vehicle Operator) and you anxiously await your first assignment. Soon enough, dispatch transmits the location of your first patient. You hop in the rig with the rest of your crew. What do you do before you release the brake and get underway?
2. You turn on your overhead emergency lights and hit the road. Your fellow crew member is navigating for you. He tells you that you must turn right at the next stop sign 100 feet up ahead. How do you handle this?
3. Your navigator tells you that you must travel several miles on the road you are now on. Traffic is minimal. Weather conditions are good, as are road conditions. The speed limit is 50 mph (80 kmh). How fast will you go?
4. Congratulations: you made it through your first day as an emergency vehicle operator! You leave work and are driving home for some much needed rest. As you approach a green light, you see and hear your coworkers from the next shift approaching the intersection perpendicularly. What should you do?
5. You are "on call" overnight at your home. In the middle of the night, your pager goes off, beckoning you for an emergency call. Thankfully, you applied for and obtained the appropriate permit for a "blue light" for your personal call. True or False: the blue light provides you and your personal vehicle the same privileges that red and white lights provide for an ambulance.
6. After a few days off, you are back at work when dispatch notifies you that you are needed to provide emergency care to a person who broke their leg following a fall from a ladder. The patient has a known seizure disorder and is actively having a seizure. What special care do you use when approaching the scene?
7. While en route to the hospital with your patient, you are acutely aware that A) your patient is in pain and B) your crew is tending to the patient and may not be belted in with their seatbelts. What adjustments do you make to the operation of the ambulance?
8. You are en route to another call later in the day. Most of the cars on the road do not pull over and stop in response to your lights and sirens, which is a usual occurrence. When they do not, you have to maintain a piece of your attention on their vehicle, because you cannot be sure if they see and hear you or not. What should you do?
9. You never know how far you might have to drive at a moment's notice or how long you may be on a scene (with your engine running), so the ambulance you drive must never go below 1/2 on the gas gauge. You stop for gas and fill her up. Shortly after, you are dispatched to a reportedly unconscious elderly male. While en route, the unthinkable happens: a driver of a car thinks they can beat you across the road before you pass and you T-bone the car at 40 mph (65 km/hr). You were seatbelted, as were the other members of your crew, and a verbal check with your crew shows that you all feel you are okay. Your ambulance is only lightly damaged and is drivable. The car you hit has considerable driver's side damage. What do you do next?
10. After a few weeks on the job, you realize that you love your work and wouldn't give it up for anything. You have learned, through training and through experience, that the most important concern you have while driving an emergency vehicle is:
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