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You: The Ambulance Driver Trivia Quiz

C'mon, admit it. You've always wanted to drive an ambulance. Flashy lights, playing with the siren, lots of fun, right? It can be, but there is much more to it than simply "driving fast." Do you have what it takes to operate an ambulance?

A multiple-choice quiz by Pangea250. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Pangea250

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
312,108

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
9 / 10

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1708

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

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? Hint

Check that your mirrors are adjusted to provide you with maximum field of vision.

Adjust your seat and steering wheel to a comfortable position that allows you to reach the controls on your dashboard and center console as well as the gas and brake pedals.

Make sure that you and your crew are all wearing seatbelts.

All of these.

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Question 2 of 10

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? Hint

Turn on your sirens and approach the turn. Stop completely, looking both ways for oncoming traffic before turning.

Completely lose your cool and start babbling that you just can't handle the pressure.

Approach the turn. Knowing that it is illegal for drivers to ignore an emergency vehicle with lights and sirens on, take the turn as fast as you can without flipping the rig.

Turn lights and sirens off. Stop at the stop sign and allow other traffic to go through.

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Question 3 of 10

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? Hint

As fast as possible - around 90 mph (145 km/hr).

Twice the speed limit.

As fast as you feel comfortably driving up to 10 to 15 mph (16 to 24 km/hr) over the posted speed limit.

As fast as you want, as long as you have lights and sirens in use.

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Question 4 of 10

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? Hint

Pull up to the intersection and stop, allowing your car to block other traffic.

Speed up to make it through the intersection before the ambulance reaches it.

Put on your right blinker and pull off to the right, coming to a complete stop.

Stopping is the most important thing: right where you are in the middle of the road.

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Question 5 of 10

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.

True

False

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Question 6 of 10

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? Hint

Drive very *very* fast, as the patient is probably critical.

Nothing.

Turn off your overhead flashing lights.

Use your air horn when you arrive on scene to try to "snap" the patient out of their seizure.

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Question 7 of 10

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? Hint

Use roads you are familiar with, if possible, and try to avoid bumps, sharp turns and sudden stops.

Take turns slowly and widely.

All of these.

Verbally notify your crew before turning.

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Question 8 of 10

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? Hint

Use your PA (public address) system to verbally tell the drivers to pull over and stop.

Ask someone else in your crew to write down license plates numbers so that you can call the police later and have them ticketed.

Call 911.

Keep focused on the road ahead of you. Slow down if necessary.

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Question 9 of 10

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? Hint

Call to dispatch via radio to give them the location and severity of the accident, as well as to have a different ambulance dispatched to the original call and to have police and another ambulance dispatched to your location. If you can, check the driver

Don't move from where you are, as it is imperative for your eventual lawsuit that you look and act as injured as possible.

Call to dispatch via radio to give them the location and severity of the accident and to have police and an ambulance dispatched to your location. Continue on to your initial call, which takes priority over your accident.

Start taking names of witnesses to the accident.

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Question 10 of 10

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: Hint

Speed

Lookin' good

Playing with lights and sirens

Safety

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: All of these.

An ambulance may have many people driving it in any given period. The time to adjust mirrors, the seat and the steering wheel to your preferences is *not* while you are en route to an emergency. It is also important that driver and passengers wear seatbelts. You are just starting out in emergency medical services, and you will soon see for yourself what happens to unbelted people.

Answer: Turn on your sirens and approach the turn. Stop completely, looking both ways for oncoming traffic before turning.

As an emergency vehicle operator, you must operate your vehicle safely and be aware of all traffic laws. You are not permitted to drive recklessly. While it is the law that other drivers must yield to an emergency vehicles with lights and sirens, many frequently do not. You must remain calm and in control while driving an emergency, and must be willing to operate the vehicle within the constraints with which it was manufactured.

Answer: As fast as you feel comfortably driving up to 10 to 15 mph (16 to 24 km/hr) over the posted speed limit.

Exceeding the speed limit without legal ramifications is a courtesy only. While it is largely standard practice for police entities to allow emergency vehicles to exceed the speed limit, they can (and do) give ambulance drivers speeding tickets. As a general rule, however, emergency vehicle operators are not bothered if they have lights and sirens on and are going no more than 10 to 15 mph (16 to 24 km/hr) over the speed limit. If conditions permit, travelling this fast is acceptable *only* if you are comfortable doing so. No driver should ever operate their emergency vehicle beyond their scope of ability, training and comfort level.

Answer: Put on your right blinker and pull off to the right, coming to a complete stop.

The only vehicle you have control over is your own. Obey traffic laws and safely pull over to the side of the road, coming to a complete stop.

Answer: False

Blue lights permit some privileges, but they are very limited. It is the law that other vehicles yield to a driver with a blue light, but typical drivers rarely obey that law. A blue light does not permit you to go through red lights nor does it allow you to drive recklessly or pass improperly.

Answer: Turn off your overhead flashing lights.

Flashing lights and strobe lights can bring on a seizure. Common courtesy dictates that you turn off such lights when approaching a seizure patient. The air horn is not a therapeutic intervention for seizures. You should never drive faster in response to a patient's critical condition. The only factors for the speed you drive at are the law, driving conditions and your comfort level.

Answer: All of these.

While your crew should ideally remained seatbelted at all times, the reality is that they will have to provide patient care that may necessitate them to be standing, leaning over or otherwise moving around in the back of the ambulance. Additionally, every bump, turn and stop is magnified in the back of an ambulance. If your patient has any type of pain, it is helpful if you can minimize anything that might make it worse.

Answer: Keep focused on the road ahead of you. Slow down if necessary.

The most important thing you can do is to maintain control of the 5 ton ambulance that is under your command. You must stay focused on the road ahead of you, slowing down if that is what it takes to maintain proper control. It is not proper to use a PA system to yell at drivers. You should not call 911 unless there is something immediate and unsafe happening (like a tailgaiting car on a highway, a frequent and *very* dangerous occurrence). Writing down license plate numbers for cars that do not yield to you is simply not practical: you'd be writing all day.

Answer: Call to dispatch via radio to give them the location and severity of the accident, as well as to have a different ambulance dispatched to the original call and to have police and another ambulance dispatched to your location. If you can, check the driver

Ambulance or not, you are obligated by law and cannot leave the scene of an accident. If you are able, you should contact your dispatch so that emergency personnel can be sent to your scene as well as your initial call. You cannot leave this scene, no matter what the condition of the patient of your initial call! While you may have a lawsuit eventually, this should not be anywhere in your thoughts at this time. Also, it is not your responsibility to begin an accident investigation: that is the job of the police. I was involved in this exact type of accident 8 months ago.

The teenagers driving the car had the music turned up and didn't hear my siren. The driver of the car (17 years old) didn't look before he turned. Unbelievably and fortunately, there were no serious injuries to anyone in the ambulance or the car. One car passenger received a few stitches to her head, but nothing more than that.

Answer: Safety

If you are safe, everything else will follow in due course.

Source: Author Pangea250

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