MPDS COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Symptoms of a stroke - ✔✔Paralysis, localized weakness, headache, numbness,
slurred speech, inability to speak (aphasia), memory loss, dizziness, blindness to one
eye, confusion, loss of consciousness, double vision, .
✔✔If a person rings for pain in shoulder/neck, which protocol do you go to? - ✔✔10
(chest pain)
✔✔What is the difference between the domestic and specialised water rescue? -
✔✔Domestic (pool etc
Specialised (river, ocean, dam)
✔✔What are some signs or words offered to identify ineffective breathing? - ✔✔Barely
breathing, can't breathe, fighting for air, gasping for air, just a little, making funny noises,
not breathing, turning blue or purple
✔✔When would you use a protocol 33? - ✔✔Assessed by doc/RN, community based
setting, Going to Hospital ED
✔✔What is priority response in Protocol F9? - ✔✔Whatever is the highest between
system and docs recommendations
✔✔Define the 3 Acuity - ✔✔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 - ✔✔1B - highest clinical level available
1C - any vehicle in the vicinity
✔✔All command list in A4 - ✔✔PHELP
✔✔Questions to ask in F9 and record in comments and notes - ✔✔Infection (/NI -
MRSA - VRE) Also Why, how, are they, what, who else
✔✔What gives an R3 responses? - ✔✔Hospital to hospital
Psychiatric
Person Ill (protocol 33)
✔✔Strategies for managing difficult callers - ✔✔Maintain professionalism, advise you
need this info, explain the process, acknowledge their fear or anxiety, if their behaviour
is uncontrollable tell them that their behaviour is unacceptable, escalate to supervisor
, ✔✔What are codes /STR and /NI mean? - ✔✔Stretcher and non infectious
✔✔Shortcut for a walking patient and what does it decode to? - ✔✔/AMB - patient is
ambulant
✔✔How do you identify a scene safety question? - ✔✔Written in red
✔✔What do grey block ranges in Geo- Locator signify? - ✔✔Vanity addresses - Street
name and numbering a correct for a bordering suburb
✔✔What icon in ProQA use to fin a specific PAI - ✔✔Target
✔✔What nature problem do you select for a patient from a minor hospital to a major ED
within 1hr for CVA? - ✔✔0 Hosp to Hosp (R3 response)
✔✔What priority for a PT being sent home from the hospital ED, back to nursing home?
0 STR after treatment (R6) - ✔✔
✔✔If an address does not appear in Geo Locate after using the search function, what is
the sequence of steps? - ✔✔Bloc range, soundex, no match
✔✔List some of the conditions that would lead to ventilations first CPR - ✔✔Allergic
reaction, asthma, drowning, hanging, lightning strikes, OD/poisoning, severe Trauma,
strangulation, toxic inhalation
✔✔Give an example of ineffective breathing - ✔✔Barely breathing, can't breathe,
fighting for air, gasping for air, just a little bit, making funny noises, not breathing, turning
blue or purple
✔✔How is a job verified? - ✔✔After sending it to queue
✔✔Why would you notify instead of saving a note - ✔✔When it relates to scene safety
or an urgent message
✔✔SOB - ✔✔Shortness of breath
✔✔ETA - ✔✔expected time of arrival
✔✔Q - ✔✔Query
✔✔CVA - ✔✔Cerebral vascular accident
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Symptoms of a stroke - ✔✔Paralysis, localized weakness, headache, numbness,
slurred speech, inability to speak (aphasia), memory loss, dizziness, blindness to one
eye, confusion, loss of consciousness, double vision, .
✔✔If a person rings for pain in shoulder/neck, which protocol do you go to? - ✔✔10
(chest pain)
✔✔What is the difference between the domestic and specialised water rescue? -
✔✔Domestic (pool etc
Specialised (river, ocean, dam)
✔✔What are some signs or words offered to identify ineffective breathing? - ✔✔Barely
breathing, can't breathe, fighting for air, gasping for air, just a little, making funny noises,
not breathing, turning blue or purple
✔✔When would you use a protocol 33? - ✔✔Assessed by doc/RN, community based
setting, Going to Hospital ED
✔✔What is priority response in Protocol F9? - ✔✔Whatever is the highest between
system and docs recommendations
✔✔Define the 3 Acuity - ✔✔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 - ✔✔1B - highest clinical level available
1C - any vehicle in the vicinity
✔✔All command list in A4 - ✔✔PHELP
✔✔Questions to ask in F9 and record in comments and notes - ✔✔Infection (/NI -
MRSA - VRE) Also Why, how, are they, what, who else
✔✔What gives an R3 responses? - ✔✔Hospital to hospital
Psychiatric
Person Ill (protocol 33)
✔✔Strategies for managing difficult callers - ✔✔Maintain professionalism, advise you
need this info, explain the process, acknowledge their fear or anxiety, if their behaviour
is uncontrollable tell them that their behaviour is unacceptable, escalate to supervisor
, ✔✔What are codes /STR and /NI mean? - ✔✔Stretcher and non infectious
✔✔Shortcut for a walking patient and what does it decode to? - ✔✔/AMB - patient is
ambulant
✔✔How do you identify a scene safety question? - ✔✔Written in red
✔✔What do grey block ranges in Geo- Locator signify? - ✔✔Vanity addresses - Street
name and numbering a correct for a bordering suburb
✔✔What icon in ProQA use to fin a specific PAI - ✔✔Target
✔✔What nature problem do you select for a patient from a minor hospital to a major ED
within 1hr for CVA? - ✔✔0 Hosp to Hosp (R3 response)
✔✔What priority for a PT being sent home from the hospital ED, back to nursing home?
0 STR after treatment (R6) - ✔✔
✔✔If an address does not appear in Geo Locate after using the search function, what is
the sequence of steps? - ✔✔Bloc range, soundex, no match
✔✔List some of the conditions that would lead to ventilations first CPR - ✔✔Allergic
reaction, asthma, drowning, hanging, lightning strikes, OD/poisoning, severe Trauma,
strangulation, toxic inhalation
✔✔Give an example of ineffective breathing - ✔✔Barely breathing, can't breathe,
fighting for air, gasping for air, just a little bit, making funny noises, not breathing, turning
blue or purple
✔✔How is a job verified? - ✔✔After sending it to queue
✔✔Why would you notify instead of saving a note - ✔✔When it relates to scene safety
or an urgent message
✔✔SOB - ✔✔Shortness of breath
✔✔ETA - ✔✔expected time of arrival
✔✔Q - ✔✔Query
✔✔CVA - ✔✔Cerebral vascular accident
