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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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