APCO EMD CORE MAIN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔False - ✔✔T/F: If a caller reports a tourniquet has been applied, the
telecommunicator should always direct the caller to remove it.
✔✔Patient's - ✔✔For medical calls, the terms "left" and "right" refer to the __________
left and right side.
✔✔AVPU - ✔✔What is the acronym used to remember the levels of consciousness?
✔✔- Ectopic Pregnancy - ✔✔Which of the following "abdominal pain" complaint is
defined as being most critical?
- Gastritis
- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
- Flu Type Maladies
- Ectopic Pregnancy
✔✔Suddenly - ✔✔Anaphylactic shock is the most critical allergic reaction and typically
manifests __________.
✔✔Internal & External - ✔✔The two main sites for concern when dealing with bleeding
are?
✔✔- All Callers - ✔✔Which of the following is not one of the three categories of Chief
Complaint types, presented in Module 5?
- Medical
- Trauma
- Time Life Critical
- All Callers
✔✔Repetitive head movement - ✔✔What is not a common cause of headaches?
, ✔✔Chest Pain - ✔✔When the caller describes possible conditions like pleurisy or hiatal
hernias, you will use the __________ guidecard.
✔✔- Sugar - ✔✔Diabetes is a disorder where the body does not produce insulin or does
not use it efficiently. Which is not a type of diabetes?
- One
- Gestational
- Sugar
- Two
✔✔Enclosed spaces - ✔✔__________ present grave danger where chemicals or gases
may be present.
✔✔Individual Chief Complaint - ✔✔Which of the guidecard types would be used when a
patient has informed you they are experiencing chest pains?
✔✔Time/Life Critical - ✔✔Which of the guidecard types would be used when giving
CPR instructions?
✔✔Time/Life Critical - ✔✔Which of the guidecard types would be used for a person with
an obstructed airway?
✔✔Traumatic Incidents - ✔✔Which of the guidecard types would be used for a person
injured in a motor vehicle collision?
✔✔Caustic ingestion of acid or lye - ✔✔With poisonings, do not give the patient
anything to eat or drink in case of?
✔✔Children generally suffer more severe injuries in comparison to adults - ✔✔Choose
any special consideration for animal bites.
✔✔- Completely alert - ✔✔Stroke/CVAs have several symptoms commonly relayed by
the caller, which is not one?
- Sudden confusion
- Completely alert
- Trouble speaking numbers
- Weakness on one side of the body
✔✔Traumatic incidents - ✔✔Heat/cold exposure falls under which guidecard type?
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F: When receiving a call for assault it sexual assault, patient safety and
evidence preservation is key.
SURE A+
✔✔False - ✔✔T/F: If a caller reports a tourniquet has been applied, the
telecommunicator should always direct the caller to remove it.
✔✔Patient's - ✔✔For medical calls, the terms "left" and "right" refer to the __________
left and right side.
✔✔AVPU - ✔✔What is the acronym used to remember the levels of consciousness?
✔✔- Ectopic Pregnancy - ✔✔Which of the following "abdominal pain" complaint is
defined as being most critical?
- Gastritis
- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
- Flu Type Maladies
- Ectopic Pregnancy
✔✔Suddenly - ✔✔Anaphylactic shock is the most critical allergic reaction and typically
manifests __________.
✔✔Internal & External - ✔✔The two main sites for concern when dealing with bleeding
are?
✔✔- All Callers - ✔✔Which of the following is not one of the three categories of Chief
Complaint types, presented in Module 5?
- Medical
- Trauma
- Time Life Critical
- All Callers
✔✔Repetitive head movement - ✔✔What is not a common cause of headaches?
, ✔✔Chest Pain - ✔✔When the caller describes possible conditions like pleurisy or hiatal
hernias, you will use the __________ guidecard.
✔✔- Sugar - ✔✔Diabetes is a disorder where the body does not produce insulin or does
not use it efficiently. Which is not a type of diabetes?
- One
- Gestational
- Sugar
- Two
✔✔Enclosed spaces - ✔✔__________ present grave danger where chemicals or gases
may be present.
✔✔Individual Chief Complaint - ✔✔Which of the guidecard types would be used when a
patient has informed you they are experiencing chest pains?
✔✔Time/Life Critical - ✔✔Which of the guidecard types would be used when giving
CPR instructions?
✔✔Time/Life Critical - ✔✔Which of the guidecard types would be used for a person with
an obstructed airway?
✔✔Traumatic Incidents - ✔✔Which of the guidecard types would be used for a person
injured in a motor vehicle collision?
✔✔Caustic ingestion of acid or lye - ✔✔With poisonings, do not give the patient
anything to eat or drink in case of?
✔✔Children generally suffer more severe injuries in comparison to adults - ✔✔Choose
any special consideration for animal bites.
✔✔- Completely alert - ✔✔Stroke/CVAs have several symptoms commonly relayed by
the caller, which is not one?
- Sudden confusion
- Completely alert
- Trouble speaking numbers
- Weakness on one side of the body
✔✔Traumatic incidents - ✔✔Heat/cold exposure falls under which guidecard type?
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F: When receiving a call for assault it sexual assault, patient safety and
evidence preservation is key.
