Scene Size-Up and Safety
Your ambulance arrives at a large mass-casualty incident that is already under way. What should you do first?
- ADrive into the scene and treat the nearest patient
- BTransport the first patient who flags you down
- CSet up your own triage area away from the others
- DReport to staging or command and wait for an assignment
Not A. Self-assigning to the nearest patient disrupts the incident plan and triage priorities.
D is right. Arriving units check in with staging or incident command and accept an assignment. Freelancing creates confusion, duplicates effort and can put responders in danger.