EMD COURSE V14 UPDATED COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VERIFIED
PREPARATION RESOURCE
●● responsibilities of the EMD
Answer: 1. receives and processes calls for EMS assistance
2.determines the nature and severity of medical incidents
3.coordinates and dispatches EMS resources
●● Differences between EMD and EMS
Answer: 1. EMD = advanced form of dispatch
EMS= a system
2.EMD requires specific medical training
EMS=includes all aspects of medical services to the community
3.EMD serves as part of EMS system
EMS= includes call takers through rehabilitation of the patient
●● Resources of the EMS system
Answer: -local police department
,-fire department
-hospitals
-BLS
-ALS
-medevac
●● Tiers of the EMS system (4)
Answer: 1. First responders
2. Basic Life Support
3. Advanced life support
4. aeromedical services
●● difference between BLS and ALS
Answer: BLS covers basic life saving skills, ALS addresses advanced
life support techniques
●● Response modes (2)
Answer: 1. "cold response"- no lights no sirens
2. "hot response"- lights and sirens
●● Liability
,Answer: you are ultimately responsible for your actions
●● Standard of Care
Answer: reasonable behavior under the circumstances
●● Negligence
Answer: failure to act or perform in a particular situation as any other
reasonable prudent dispatcher would under the same or similar
circumstances
●● To prove negligence, you must determine:
Answer: 1. duty
2. breach of duty
3. injury/damage
4. proximate cause/ causation
●● Simple negligence
Answer: not due to "malicious intent"
●● Gross negligence
Answer: negligent action that was undertaken with malicious intent and
with willful disregard for the safety and or/ property
, ●● abandonment
Answer: disconnecting from a caller who is reporting a medical
emergency, especially a life threatening condition
●● Sovereign immunity
Answer: aka: governmental immunity- when government employees are
immune from simple negligence (does NOT apply to and EMD officer
who works for a private non-government agency or is found guilty of
gross negligence)
●● Good Samaritan Law
Answer: intended to reduce bystanders hesitation
●● detrimental reliance
Answer: a person expects that a certain action will be taken based on the
fact that has been reported in the media
●● dangerous EMD practices
Answer: -failing to send EMS when requested
-personal judgement of caller credibility
-being argumentative with the caller
-allowing prejudices to affect objective decision making
-subjective judgement of chief complaint
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VERIFIED
PREPARATION RESOURCE
●● responsibilities of the EMD
Answer: 1. receives and processes calls for EMS assistance
2.determines the nature and severity of medical incidents
3.coordinates and dispatches EMS resources
●● Differences between EMD and EMS
Answer: 1. EMD = advanced form of dispatch
EMS= a system
2.EMD requires specific medical training
EMS=includes all aspects of medical services to the community
3.EMD serves as part of EMS system
EMS= includes call takers through rehabilitation of the patient
●● Resources of the EMS system
Answer: -local police department
,-fire department
-hospitals
-BLS
-ALS
-medevac
●● Tiers of the EMS system (4)
Answer: 1. First responders
2. Basic Life Support
3. Advanced life support
4. aeromedical services
●● difference between BLS and ALS
Answer: BLS covers basic life saving skills, ALS addresses advanced
life support techniques
●● Response modes (2)
Answer: 1. "cold response"- no lights no sirens
2. "hot response"- lights and sirens
●● Liability
,Answer: you are ultimately responsible for your actions
●● Standard of Care
Answer: reasonable behavior under the circumstances
●● Negligence
Answer: failure to act or perform in a particular situation as any other
reasonable prudent dispatcher would under the same or similar
circumstances
●● To prove negligence, you must determine:
Answer: 1. duty
2. breach of duty
3. injury/damage
4. proximate cause/ causation
●● Simple negligence
Answer: not due to "malicious intent"
●● Gross negligence
Answer: negligent action that was undertaken with malicious intent and
with willful disregard for the safety and or/ property
, ●● abandonment
Answer: disconnecting from a caller who is reporting a medical
emergency, especially a life threatening condition
●● Sovereign immunity
Answer: aka: governmental immunity- when government employees are
immune from simple negligence (does NOT apply to and EMD officer
who works for a private non-government agency or is found guilty of
gross negligence)
●● Good Samaritan Law
Answer: intended to reduce bystanders hesitation
●● detrimental reliance
Answer: a person expects that a certain action will be taken based on the
fact that has been reported in the media
●● dangerous EMD practices
Answer: -failing to send EMS when requested
-personal judgement of caller credibility
-being argumentative with the caller
-allowing prejudices to affect objective decision making
-subjective judgement of chief complaint
