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Emergency Medical Dispatch Questions
and Correct Answers/ Latest Update /
Already Graded
All Callers Interrogation
Ans: used to determine dispatch and pre-arrival instructions
Individual Chief Complaint Guidecard
Ans: used to determine the type and severity of the medical
emergency
Scripted Medical Instructions
Ans: provided when patients need immediate care to save their
lives
Individual Chief Complaints
Ans: medical problem; an illness, acute or chronic
Traumatic Incident
Ans: physical injury caused by accident or violence
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Time/Life Critical
Ans: highly dangerous events such as heart
attack/choking/childbirth
hysteria threshold
Ans: emotional state that prevents callers from being focused
breach of duty
Ans: failure to act according to the standard of care
established by the community
proximate cause
Ans: direct relationship between action/inaction and injury
simple negligence
Ans: didn't mean for it to happen!
gross negligence
Ans: didn't care if it did happen!
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criminal negligence
Ans: planned for it to happen!
compensatory damages
Ans: repay plaintiffs for actual losses
punitive damages
Ans: awarded to punish a defendant
BLS Cold
Ans: resource with basic life support capability, dispatched and
told to respond in a normal response mode
BLS Hot
Ans: resource with basic life support capability dispatched and
told to respond in an emergency response mode
ALS Hot
Ans: resource with advanced life support capability dispatched
and told to respond in an emergency response mode
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Emergency Medical Dispatch Questions
and Correct Answers/ Latest Update /
Already Graded
All Callers Interrogation
Ans: used to determine dispatch and pre-arrival instructions
Individual Chief Complaint Guidecard
Ans: used to determine the type and severity of the medical
emergency
Scripted Medical Instructions
Ans: provided when patients need immediate care to save their
lives
Individual Chief Complaints
Ans: medical problem; an illness, acute or chronic
Traumatic Incident
Ans: physical injury caused by accident or violence
All rights reserved © 2025/ 2026 |
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Time/Life Critical
Ans: highly dangerous events such as heart
attack/choking/childbirth
hysteria threshold
Ans: emotional state that prevents callers from being focused
breach of duty
Ans: failure to act according to the standard of care
established by the community
proximate cause
Ans: direct relationship between action/inaction and injury
simple negligence
Ans: didn't mean for it to happen!
gross negligence
Ans: didn't care if it did happen!
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criminal negligence
Ans: planned for it to happen!
compensatory damages
Ans: repay plaintiffs for actual losses
punitive damages
Ans: awarded to punish a defendant
BLS Cold
Ans: resource with basic life support capability, dispatched and
told to respond in a normal response mode
BLS Hot
Ans: resource with basic life support capability dispatched and
told to respond in an emergency response mode
ALS Hot
Ans: resource with advanced life support capability dispatched
and told to respond in an emergency response mode
All rights reserved © 2025/ 2026 |