MPDS questions with verified answers
Case Entry Rule 10 Ans✓✓✓ When the complaint description is
BREATHING RELATED TRACHEOSTOMY problems for an unconscious
patient go to Protocol 6
How check for Agonal Breathing? Ans✓✓✓ Check 4 breaths. Time
between breaths is >8 seconds
(A time between breaths of 8 seconds or more is considered Ineffective
breathing)
How would a code be formatted? Ans✓✓✓ 13 - C - 2 - C
13 = CC
C = Determinant level
2 = Determinant descriptor
C = Suffix
Name the 4 categories of patient Ans✓✓✓ 1st Party - Patient
2nd Party - Caller with patient
3rd Party - Not with patient but can provide information
4th Party - Only select when receiving calls from other emergency
services
, (if it's safe a 3rd party caller can be converted to 2nd party)
Protocol 1 - Axiom 2 Ans✓✓✓ Severity of pain is not related to the
seriousness of the problem.
Protocol 1 - Rule 1 Ans✓✓✓ Epigastric pain (above naval)in cardiac age
range patients (female >45, male> 35)is considered a heart attack until
proven otherwise
Stages of MPDS Ans✓✓✓ - Case Entry (key questions)
- Chief Complaint (choose protocol 1 - 32)
- Work out code
- Send Response
- Post Dispatch instructions (PDI)
- Case Exit
What are Case Entry Rules 1 , 2 & 5 Ans✓✓✓ 1. SCENE SAFETY
If the complaint description includes SCENE SAFETY issues choose the
chief complaint protocol that best addresses those issues
2. TRAUMA
If the complaint description involves TRAUMA choose the chief
complaint protocol that best addresses the mechanism of injury
3. MEDICAL
Case Entry Rule 10 Ans✓✓✓ When the complaint description is
BREATHING RELATED TRACHEOSTOMY problems for an unconscious
patient go to Protocol 6
How check for Agonal Breathing? Ans✓✓✓ Check 4 breaths. Time
between breaths is >8 seconds
(A time between breaths of 8 seconds or more is considered Ineffective
breathing)
How would a code be formatted? Ans✓✓✓ 13 - C - 2 - C
13 = CC
C = Determinant level
2 = Determinant descriptor
C = Suffix
Name the 4 categories of patient Ans✓✓✓ 1st Party - Patient
2nd Party - Caller with patient
3rd Party - Not with patient but can provide information
4th Party - Only select when receiving calls from other emergency
services
, (if it's safe a 3rd party caller can be converted to 2nd party)
Protocol 1 - Axiom 2 Ans✓✓✓ Severity of pain is not related to the
seriousness of the problem.
Protocol 1 - Rule 1 Ans✓✓✓ Epigastric pain (above naval)in cardiac age
range patients (female >45, male> 35)is considered a heart attack until
proven otherwise
Stages of MPDS Ans✓✓✓ - Case Entry (key questions)
- Chief Complaint (choose protocol 1 - 32)
- Work out code
- Send Response
- Post Dispatch instructions (PDI)
- Case Exit
What are Case Entry Rules 1 , 2 & 5 Ans✓✓✓ 1. SCENE SAFETY
If the complaint description includes SCENE SAFETY issues choose the
chief complaint protocol that best addresses those issues
2. TRAUMA
If the complaint description involves TRAUMA choose the chief
complaint protocol that best addresses the mechanism of injury
3. MEDICAL
