APCO EMD UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY RESOURCE

APCO EMD UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY RESOURCE

◉ What are the prerequisites for APCO EMD
Answer: APCO Public Safety Telecommunicators course and CPR
Certification


◉ What information should agencies know about all resources
Answer: capabilities, location + status, and procedures for request
+ activation


◉ What guidecard is used on every call ( & first)
Answer: All Callers Interrogation


◉ 3 guidecard types
Answer: 1. All Callers' Interrogation
2. Individual Chief Complaint
3. Scripted Medical


◉ Individual Chief Complaint Card Color
Answer: Green

, ◉ Scripted Medical Instruction Card Color
Answer: Red


◉ What is Standard of Care
Answer: the recognized, evidence-based, and legally defensible
procedures and practices that EMDs are expected to follow


◉ 4 elements of negligence
Answer: 1. duty
2. breech of duty
3. injury/damages
4. proximate cause


◉ Simple Negligence definition
Answer: EMD didn't mean for it to happen (without intent)


◉ Gross Negligence definition
Answer: EMD didn't care if it happened (malicious/willful)


◉ Foreseeability definition
Answer: you must solely rely on the information you get from the
caller, because you are not there and can't SEE it


◉ 3 phases of dispatch