You are teaching an EMT class about the role of an EMS response to a terror attack involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD). A student asks you what constitutes a WMD. You would inform him that a WMD is any:
A) agent used to cause indiscriminate death and destruction.
B) weapon used to create fear and panic among the general population.
C) agent that is intended to kill a specific segment of the population.
D) biological agent that kills people and animals but does not destroy property.
A
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The AEMT showed that he understands the difference between a pneumothorax and a tension pneumothorax when he made which one of the following statements?
A) "A tension pneumothorax causes blood to accumulate around the lung; a pneumothorax involves the accumulation of air only around the lung." B) "A tension pneumothorax causes cardiac output to decrease; a simple pneumothorax does not affect cardiac output." C) "A pneumothorax is caused by a closed chest injury; a tension pneumothorax is caused by an open chest injury." D) "A pneumothorax describes a collapsed lung; a tension pneumothorax involves both a collapsed lung and blood loss."
The fourth character of the Medical and Surgical section of ICD-10-PCs represents the _____
a. approach b. root operation c. body part d. qualifier