3 Patient Triage and Transport Priority Online Quiz Questions

Check scene safety and the overall situation, including hazards, patient count, available help, and whether a mass-casualty plan is active.

Begin a detailed assessment of the first patient before checking for hazards or identifying other patients.

Choose a destination for the first patient before determining what help or resources are available.

Treat the most vocal patient first, then decide whether the scene is safe.

True

False

Prioritize the wrist injury because pain is easier to assess than breathing changes.

Prioritize the patient with worsening breathing and new confusion for immediate assessment and stabilization.

Treat both patients as equally urgent because one patient has an obvious injury.

Wait to prioritize either patient until additional resources arrive.

Check mental status, airway and breathing, and circulation and bleeding.

Repeat only the patient’s original complaint and omit other findings if it has not changed.

Review vital signs and symptoms.

Use the patient’s initial appearance as the sole basis for the current priority.

Check whether interventions are working.

Compare the findings with the patient’s earlier condition.

Direct ambulatory patients to a safe area and complete their individual assessments before evaluating anyone else.

Assess patients in the order they called for help, regardless of their condition.

Assess the motionless patient with an obvious life threat before directing ambulatory patients to a safe area for later individual assessment.

Apply ordinary one-patient priorities to the entire scene without using the incident’s triage plan.

The patient’s physiology.

The patient’s injuries.

The mechanism of injury.

Patient-specific factors.

Distance to the facility as the only deciding factor.

Whether the patient can speak, regardless of other findings.

True

False

Always transport to the closest facility, regardless of its capabilities.

Match the patient’s likely needs with facility capability, considering transport time, system capacity, and local rules.

Choose a destination based only on which facility has the shortest waiting time.

Avoid considering local destination rules if another facility seems more suitable.

True

False

Transport the stable patient first because the patient currently has no urgent findings.

Prioritize the unstable patient for transport, while continuing to monitor and reassess the stable patient.

Delay both patients until the stable patient develops symptoms.

Choose the destination based only on which patient is closer to a facility.

Always choose the geographically closest facility.

Choose a trauma center regardless of the patient’s needs.

Use a stroke-capable destination when criteria and local protocols indicate it.

Delay transport until the patient’s symptoms have completely resolved.

Provide essential care while preparing to move, and continue appropriate assessment and treatment en route.

Complete every possible treatment before beginning transport.

Transport immediately without providing any essential care.

Wait to decide on transport until reassessment shows whether the patient deteriorates.

Categorize every patient first, then globally sort them and provide lifesaving interventions.

Provide selected lifesaving interventions, categorize patients, and then begin global sorting.

Globally sort patients, provide selected lifesaving interventions, and then categorize them.

Assign routine individual acuity labels before deciding whether the mass-casualty method applies.