Table 3 Overview of the answers on the theory/case mix questions
From: Dutch senior medical students and disaster medicine: a national survey
Q1/ Chain collision, possible cotaminated patients: | |
Isolate in distal corner | 5 % |
In waiting room | 49 % |
In garage | 1 % |
Wait separately outside | 45 % |
No action, hide | 0 % |
Q2/ Iodine tablets protect against: | |
External radiation | 28 % |
Internal radiation | 15 % |
Both external and internal | 24 % |
No radiation protection | 20 % |
Don’t know | 13 % |
Q3/Tthe CGV means: | |
Operational leader of overall disaster management | 26 % |
Controlling arriving ambulances | 4 % |
Field hospital supplies | 2 % |
Deciding which patients go where | 14 % |
Don’t know | 55 % |
Q4/ Postman with necrotic lesions: | |
Frostbite | 10 % |
New chemical product | 22 % |
Possible anthrax | 47 % |
Use of new kind of black ink | 1 % |
Don’t know | 20 % |
Q5/ Chemical decontamination: | |
Oral antidote | 5 % |
Antidote body smear | 3 % |
Antidote spray special miltary cabin | 57 % |
Wash with water and soap | 15 % |
Don’t know | 20 % |
Q6/ What limits radiation damage the most? | |
Protective clothing | 3 % |
Fast decontamination | 1 % |
Oral iodine tablets | 41 % |
Limit time of exposure, increase distance and shielding | 54 % |
Don’t know | 1 % |
Q7/ 2 most important objects to take along in evacuation: | |
Smartphone | 57 % |
Laptop | 2 % |
ID/health insurance cards | 46 % |
Syllabus/handbook | 1 % |
Sixpack of beer | 4 % |
Normally used medication | 79 % |
Photo of loved one | 1 % |
None of the above | 6 % |
Don’t know | 0 % |
Q8/ Superficial cuts and first degree burns, go to | |
Nearest hospital | 47 % |
Closest hospital with burn unit | 5 % |
Home (recover and sleep) | 6 % |
Hospital ED further away | 41 % |
Don’t know | 1 % |
Q9/ First step in nuclear decontamination | |
Shower patient | 8 % |
Administer iodine tablets | 53 % |
Take off clothes and shoes | 23 % |
Put on lead apron | 4 % |
Don’t know | 12 % |
Q10/ Traffic accident with 2 trucks and 2 victims, what to do? | |
Stop, call 112 and help lying victim | 40 % |
Stop, call 112 and help limping victim | 2 % |
Stop at safe distance and wait for clearance fire brigade | 54 % |
Drive by and call 112 at hospital | 4 % |
Do as if nothing happened | 0 % |