EMD COMPREHENSIVE EXAM STUDY
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
●● Both ECHO- and DELTA-level Determinant Codes imply potentially
critical, time-sensitive situations.
A.) True
B.) False
Answer: A.) True
●● ECHO Determinant Codes were created to encourage agencies to
send:
A.) The most cost-efficient response
B.) All available responders
C.) The absolute closest response of any trained crew
D.) Their most highly trained paramedic
,Answer: C.) The absolute closest response of any trained crew
●● ECHO codes only exist on Chief Complaint Protocols without
DELTA codes.
A.) True
B.) False
Answer: B.) False
●● As a general rule, ECHO Codes are included on Chief Complaint
Protocols that involve significant scene safety risks.
A.) True
B.) False
Answer: B.) False
●● You will sometimes have enough information after hearing the
caller's response to, "Okay, tell me exactly what happened," to
immediately initiate an ECHO response for the patient.
A.) True
,B.) False
Answer: A.) True
●● Which of the following complaints represents a situation that,
without obtaining any further information, could be properly categorized
by an EMD into one of the MPDS Chief Complaint Protocols?
A.) "He's just laying on the couch looking miserable. I think he's dying.
Come quick!
B.) "Something's wrong with my Mom. She needs an ambulance right
away."
C.) "My baby just swallowed a marble and it's stuck in her throat. She
can't breathe at all!"
D.) "He's been acting really sick since yesterday, and now he's getting
even worse."
Answer: C.) "My baby just swallowed a marble and it's stuck in her
throat. She can't breathe at all!"
●● Immediately after initiating an ECHO response, you should:
, A.) Provide applicable Case Entry Post-Dispatch instructions.
B.) Provide applicable Post-Dispatch Instructions from the
corresponding Chief Complaint Protocol.
C.) Return to the questioning sequence.
Answer: A.) Provide applicable Case Entry Post-Dispatch instructions.
●● It is clearly a waste of time to ask additional Case Entry Questions
and Chief Complaint Key Questions after initiating a 7-ECHO-1
response and providing PDI-a and PDI-f for person on fire.
A.) True
B.) False
Answer: B.) False
●● The ECHO send point under Case Entry Question 3 for 9-E-1,
"Obviously NOT BREATHING and Unconscious (non-traumatic),"
applies only to:
A.) non-traumatic situations when a caller reports that a patient is
OBVIOUSLY dead.
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
●● Both ECHO- and DELTA-level Determinant Codes imply potentially
critical, time-sensitive situations.
A.) True
B.) False
Answer: A.) True
●● ECHO Determinant Codes were created to encourage agencies to
send:
A.) The most cost-efficient response
B.) All available responders
C.) The absolute closest response of any trained crew
D.) Their most highly trained paramedic
,Answer: C.) The absolute closest response of any trained crew
●● ECHO codes only exist on Chief Complaint Protocols without
DELTA codes.
A.) True
B.) False
Answer: B.) False
●● As a general rule, ECHO Codes are included on Chief Complaint
Protocols that involve significant scene safety risks.
A.) True
B.) False
Answer: B.) False
●● You will sometimes have enough information after hearing the
caller's response to, "Okay, tell me exactly what happened," to
immediately initiate an ECHO response for the patient.
A.) True
,B.) False
Answer: A.) True
●● Which of the following complaints represents a situation that,
without obtaining any further information, could be properly categorized
by an EMD into one of the MPDS Chief Complaint Protocols?
A.) "He's just laying on the couch looking miserable. I think he's dying.
Come quick!
B.) "Something's wrong with my Mom. She needs an ambulance right
away."
C.) "My baby just swallowed a marble and it's stuck in her throat. She
can't breathe at all!"
D.) "He's been acting really sick since yesterday, and now he's getting
even worse."
Answer: C.) "My baby just swallowed a marble and it's stuck in her
throat. She can't breathe at all!"
●● Immediately after initiating an ECHO response, you should:
, A.) Provide applicable Case Entry Post-Dispatch instructions.
B.) Provide applicable Post-Dispatch Instructions from the
corresponding Chief Complaint Protocol.
C.) Return to the questioning sequence.
Answer: A.) Provide applicable Case Entry Post-Dispatch instructions.
●● It is clearly a waste of time to ask additional Case Entry Questions
and Chief Complaint Key Questions after initiating a 7-ECHO-1
response and providing PDI-a and PDI-f for person on fire.
A.) True
B.) False
Answer: B.) False
●● The ECHO send point under Case Entry Question 3 for 9-E-1,
"Obviously NOT BREATHING and Unconscious (non-traumatic),"
applies only to:
A.) non-traumatic situations when a caller reports that a patient is
OBVIOUSLY dead.
