APCO EMD EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
ASTM standards recommend which percentages of calls are reviewed? - ANS 7-10%
Patients who can be aroused when spoken to are considered which level of consciousness? -
ANS Verbal
EMD's take calls for situations they can't see. What is the word we used to describe this? -
ANS Blind Environment
Which body system controls all of your functions? - ANS Nervous
Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 categories of Chief Complaint Guidecards?
a. All callers Card
b. trauma
c. medical
d. time/ life critical - ANS All Callers Card
When the caller describes possible conditions like pleurisy or hiatal hernias, you will use the
_________ glide card - ANS Chest Pain
How often should an EMD receive continuing education? - ANS Monthly
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, Which of the following is NOT a type of diabetes?
a. Type one
b. type two
c. Gestational
d. sugar - ANS Sugar
___ is the official diagnosis when individuals experience very intense arousal subsequent to the
traumatic stressor - ANS Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Dispatching a call would fall under which phase of dispatch? - ANS 2
______ is a cumulative state of mental and physical exhaustion - ANS Burnout
______ Is a failure to act or perform in a particular situation as any other reasonable prudent
telecommunicator would. - ANS Negligence
Who shouldn't be involved in dispatch feedback? - ANS Citizens
Fire personnel are part of the EMS system because they have specialised media training. What
type of resource are they? - ANS Local
____ present grave danger where chemicals or gases may be present - ANS Enclosed Spaces
Which of the call types would be used when a patient has informed you they are experiencing
chest pain? - ANS Individual Chief Complainant
Which of the call types would be used when giving CPR instructions - ANS Time/Life critical
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ANSWERS
ASTM standards recommend which percentages of calls are reviewed? - ANS 7-10%
Patients who can be aroused when spoken to are considered which level of consciousness? -
ANS Verbal
EMD's take calls for situations they can't see. What is the word we used to describe this? -
ANS Blind Environment
Which body system controls all of your functions? - ANS Nervous
Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 categories of Chief Complaint Guidecards?
a. All callers Card
b. trauma
c. medical
d. time/ life critical - ANS All Callers Card
When the caller describes possible conditions like pleurisy or hiatal hernias, you will use the
_________ glide card - ANS Chest Pain
How often should an EMD receive continuing education? - ANS Monthly
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, Which of the following is NOT a type of diabetes?
a. Type one
b. type two
c. Gestational
d. sugar - ANS Sugar
___ is the official diagnosis when individuals experience very intense arousal subsequent to the
traumatic stressor - ANS Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Dispatching a call would fall under which phase of dispatch? - ANS 2
______ is a cumulative state of mental and physical exhaustion - ANS Burnout
______ Is a failure to act or perform in a particular situation as any other reasonable prudent
telecommunicator would. - ANS Negligence
Who shouldn't be involved in dispatch feedback? - ANS Citizens
Fire personnel are part of the EMS system because they have specialised media training. What
type of resource are they? - ANS Local
____ present grave danger where chemicals or gases may be present - ANS Enclosed Spaces
Which of the call types would be used when a patient has informed you they are experiencing
chest pain? - ANS Individual Chief Complainant
Which of the call types would be used when giving CPR instructions - ANS Time/Life critical
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