MPDS Exam Prep questions with verified answers
5 Primary components of MPDS Ans✓✓✓ 1. Case Entry Protocol
2. Chief Complaint Protocol
3. Diagnostic and Instructional Tools
4. Pre-Arrival Instructions
5. Case Exit Protocols
6 Primary components of Chief Complaint Protocols Ans✓✓✓ 1. Key
Questions
2. Determinant Descriptors
3. Post Dispatch Instructions (PDI)
4. Critical EMD Info
5. DLS Links
6. Additional Info
6 Roles of EMD Ans✓✓✓ Life Support Instruction provider
Field Communications
Logistics Coordinator
Life Impactor
Triage
Telephone Interrogator
,Abdominal pain radiating into the chest? Ans✓✓✓ 10 chest pain
After a patient stops fitting, what does MPDS require the caller to do?
Ans✓✓✓ Launch Agonal Breathing Defector Tool
Agonal Breathing Ans✓✓✓ Ineffective, deteriorating breathing pattern
that lingers after the heart has stopped. irregular, gasping breaths that
precedes death.
All command list in A4 Ans✓✓✓ PHELP
AMI Ans✓✓✓ acute myocardial infarction (heart attack)
At Case Entry, when would you use Agonal Breathing Tool Ans✓✓✓
Protocol 12 and 9 - also when it is uncertain (2nd party) or unknown
(3rd party)
Axioms Ans✓✓✓ Important features that are the basis of many
decision-making processes prior to dispatching
Back pain after having a fall Ans✓✓✓ Fall 17
Before an ambulance arrives what could happen to a patient?
Ans✓✓✓ They get worse, they get better or they stay the same.
, CB Ans✓✓✓ Conscious and breathing but also CALL BACK
CVA Ans✓✓✓ Cerebral vascular accident
Define a SERIOUS Haemmorrhage Ans✓✓✓ Spurting/pouring
Define agonal breathing Ans✓✓✓ each breath greater than 8 seconds.
It is abnormal breathing - deteriorating.
Define an extreme fall Ans✓✓✓ Greater than 10m or 3 floors
Define the 3 Acuity Ans✓✓✓ Acuity 1 - within 30 min 2A
Acuity 2 - within 60 2B
Acuity 3 - greater than 60 R3
URGENT- Emergency response - 1C
Difference between 1B or 1C Ans✓✓✓ 1B - highest clinical level
available
1C - any vehicle in the vicinity
Dispatch Life Support (DLS) Ans✓✓✓ Providing care and Links to
appropriate PAI or exit instructions.
5 Primary components of MPDS Ans✓✓✓ 1. Case Entry Protocol
2. Chief Complaint Protocol
3. Diagnostic and Instructional Tools
4. Pre-Arrival Instructions
5. Case Exit Protocols
6 Primary components of Chief Complaint Protocols Ans✓✓✓ 1. Key
Questions
2. Determinant Descriptors
3. Post Dispatch Instructions (PDI)
4. Critical EMD Info
5. DLS Links
6. Additional Info
6 Roles of EMD Ans✓✓✓ Life Support Instruction provider
Field Communications
Logistics Coordinator
Life Impactor
Triage
Telephone Interrogator
,Abdominal pain radiating into the chest? Ans✓✓✓ 10 chest pain
After a patient stops fitting, what does MPDS require the caller to do?
Ans✓✓✓ Launch Agonal Breathing Defector Tool
Agonal Breathing Ans✓✓✓ Ineffective, deteriorating breathing pattern
that lingers after the heart has stopped. irregular, gasping breaths that
precedes death.
All command list in A4 Ans✓✓✓ PHELP
AMI Ans✓✓✓ acute myocardial infarction (heart attack)
At Case Entry, when would you use Agonal Breathing Tool Ans✓✓✓
Protocol 12 and 9 - also when it is uncertain (2nd party) or unknown
(3rd party)
Axioms Ans✓✓✓ Important features that are the basis of many
decision-making processes prior to dispatching
Back pain after having a fall Ans✓✓✓ Fall 17
Before an ambulance arrives what could happen to a patient?
Ans✓✓✓ They get worse, they get better or they stay the same.
, CB Ans✓✓✓ Conscious and breathing but also CALL BACK
CVA Ans✓✓✓ Cerebral vascular accident
Define a SERIOUS Haemmorrhage Ans✓✓✓ Spurting/pouring
Define agonal breathing Ans✓✓✓ each breath greater than 8 seconds.
It is abnormal breathing - deteriorating.
Define an extreme fall Ans✓✓✓ Greater than 10m or 3 floors
Define the 3 Acuity Ans✓✓✓ Acuity 1 - within 30 min 2A
Acuity 2 - within 60 2B
Acuity 3 - greater than 60 R3
URGENT- Emergency response - 1C
Difference between 1B or 1C Ans✓✓✓ 1B - highest clinical level
available
1C - any vehicle in the vicinity
Dispatch Life Support (DLS) Ans✓✓✓ Providing care and Links to
appropriate PAI or exit instructions.
