The Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS)

question 7

Multiple Choice

The Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) :

• A) is totally financed by the federal government national disaster fund.
• B) consists of responders who have obtained specialized training and equipment to deal with mass casualty events.
• C) has a storehouse of medications and antidotes to be used during response in times of national emergencies.
• D) arranges for patient admissions to federal hospitals.

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Definitions:

Ambulance

A vehicle equipped for transporting emergency personnel and patients in need of urgent medical care to and from healthcare facilities.

Serious Illness

Health conditions that have a significant impact on a person’s daily life, potentially life-threatening and requiring complex care.

Recency Effect

The tendency to remember the most recently presented information best.

Recall

The cognitive process of retrieving information from memory without much external cues.