MPDS ACTUAL FINAL PAPER UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What are pre arrival instructions (PAI)? - ✔✔Care and instructions for life
threatening situations
✔✔What are the parts that go into a Determinant code? - ✔✔Protocol - determinant
level - descriptor - suffix
✔✔What does wording blue in colour mean? - ✔✔Instructions just for you. Not to be
read aloud.
✔✔When is it okay to leave a question? - ✔✔When it has already been offered, when
the answer is obvious
✔✔What does it mean to reconfigure - ✔✔When you need to change a response to
something else to get a new determinant.
✔✔Before an ambulance arrives what could happen to a patient? - ✔✔They get worse,
they get better or they stay the same.
✔✔When do we assess if a patient is breathing? - ✔✔At case entry - Same with
unconscious.
✔✔What is the timeframe for a stroke? - ✔✔T= 1hr
✔✔Define agonal breathing - ✔✔each breath greater than 8 seconds. It is abnormal
breathing - deteriorating.
✔✔What protocol do you find ashma diagnostic? - ✔✔Chest pain / breathing difficulties
✔✔What is the difference between overdose and poisoning? - ✔✔Overdose is
intentional when you are greater than 8 years old. Poisoning is accidental
✔✔Why would you shunt from a suicide attempt? - ✔✔Overdose or poisoning
✔✔Why are certain instructions written in red? - ✔✔Relate to scene safety
✔✔Explain a re-freak event - ✔✔After a situation has been resolved (patient attended
to), the relative can relive the emotion of the event.
✔✔Name some of the Time Life priority protocols - ✔✔2 (allergies); 6 (breathing); 9
(cardiac); 11 (choking); 14 (Drowning/near); 24 (Pregnancy/Miscarriage); 31
(Unconscious/Fitting)
, ✔✔What are the guidelines when choosing PDI? - ✔✔Appropriate/relevant and
Possible
✔✔How do we minimise gaps? - ✔✔Tell them what you're doing, stay compliant to the
protocol
✔✔What are some ways to reassure - ✔✔repetition, tone, use their name, firm/caring,
repetitive persistence (action/reason)
✔✔Define a SERIOUS Haemmorrhage - ✔✔Spurting/pouring
✔✔What are some Peripheral body areas?
What about central? - ✔✔Hands and feet (Peripheral)
Everywhere else (Central)
✔✔Define an extreme fall - ✔✔Greater than 10m or 3 floors
✔✔What is non-traumatic back pain - ✔✔non-recent greater than 6 hours
✔✔With chest pain, what colours are significant? - ✔✔blue/purple/grey
✔✔When would you stay online? - ✔✔child/mental/breathing difficulties
✔✔What is the most important instruction you can give a 1st person caller? - ✔✔Can
you unlock the door
✔✔At Case Entry, when would you use Agonal Breathing Tool - ✔✔Protocol 12 and 9 -
also when it is uncertain (2nd party) or unknown (3rd party)
✔✔When do you go straight to a PAI? - ✔✔Cardiac Arrest
✔✔What is the difference between chest pain and cardiac arrest? - ✔✔Chest -
crushing/ripping, pain in arms, neck and jaw heart blockage
Cardiac - heart stops altogether
✔✔What is the first question asked at Case Entry? - ✔✔What is the exact address of
the emergency?
✔✔When is it okay to omit a question - ✔✔When the answer is obvious and has already
been answered
✔✔What are the protocol principals for dispatching - ✔✔scene safety, system response,
patient care, information to responders
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What are pre arrival instructions (PAI)? - ✔✔Care and instructions for life
threatening situations
✔✔What are the parts that go into a Determinant code? - ✔✔Protocol - determinant
level - descriptor - suffix
✔✔What does wording blue in colour mean? - ✔✔Instructions just for you. Not to be
read aloud.
✔✔When is it okay to leave a question? - ✔✔When it has already been offered, when
the answer is obvious
✔✔What does it mean to reconfigure - ✔✔When you need to change a response to
something else to get a new determinant.
✔✔Before an ambulance arrives what could happen to a patient? - ✔✔They get worse,
they get better or they stay the same.
✔✔When do we assess if a patient is breathing? - ✔✔At case entry - Same with
unconscious.
✔✔What is the timeframe for a stroke? - ✔✔T= 1hr
✔✔Define agonal breathing - ✔✔each breath greater than 8 seconds. It is abnormal
breathing - deteriorating.
✔✔What protocol do you find ashma diagnostic? - ✔✔Chest pain / breathing difficulties
✔✔What is the difference between overdose and poisoning? - ✔✔Overdose is
intentional when you are greater than 8 years old. Poisoning is accidental
✔✔Why would you shunt from a suicide attempt? - ✔✔Overdose or poisoning
✔✔Why are certain instructions written in red? - ✔✔Relate to scene safety
✔✔Explain a re-freak event - ✔✔After a situation has been resolved (patient attended
to), the relative can relive the emotion of the event.
✔✔Name some of the Time Life priority protocols - ✔✔2 (allergies); 6 (breathing); 9
(cardiac); 11 (choking); 14 (Drowning/near); 24 (Pregnancy/Miscarriage); 31
(Unconscious/Fitting)
, ✔✔What are the guidelines when choosing PDI? - ✔✔Appropriate/relevant and
Possible
✔✔How do we minimise gaps? - ✔✔Tell them what you're doing, stay compliant to the
protocol
✔✔What are some ways to reassure - ✔✔repetition, tone, use their name, firm/caring,
repetitive persistence (action/reason)
✔✔Define a SERIOUS Haemmorrhage - ✔✔Spurting/pouring
✔✔What are some Peripheral body areas?
What about central? - ✔✔Hands and feet (Peripheral)
Everywhere else (Central)
✔✔Define an extreme fall - ✔✔Greater than 10m or 3 floors
✔✔What is non-traumatic back pain - ✔✔non-recent greater than 6 hours
✔✔With chest pain, what colours are significant? - ✔✔blue/purple/grey
✔✔When would you stay online? - ✔✔child/mental/breathing difficulties
✔✔What is the most important instruction you can give a 1st person caller? - ✔✔Can
you unlock the door
✔✔At Case Entry, when would you use Agonal Breathing Tool - ✔✔Protocol 12 and 9 -
also when it is uncertain (2nd party) or unknown (3rd party)
✔✔When do you go straight to a PAI? - ✔✔Cardiac Arrest
✔✔What is the difference between chest pain and cardiac arrest? - ✔✔Chest -
crushing/ripping, pain in arms, neck and jaw heart blockage
Cardiac - heart stops altogether
✔✔What is the first question asked at Case Entry? - ✔✔What is the exact address of
the emergency?
✔✔When is it okay to omit a question - ✔✔When the answer is obvious and has already
been answered
✔✔What are the protocol principals for dispatching - ✔✔scene safety, system response,
patient care, information to responders
