MPDS EXAM PREP QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) A GRADE
5 Primary components of MPDS - correct answer-
1. Case Entry Protocol
2. Chief Complaint Protocol
3. Diagnostic and Instructional Tools
4. Pre-Arrival Instructions
5. Case Exit Protocols
6 Primary components of Chief Complaint Protocols -
correct answer- 1. Key Questions
2. Determinant Descriptors
3. Post Dispatch Instructions (PDI)
4. Critical EMD Info
5. DLS Links
6. Additional Info
,6 Roles of EMD - correct answer- Life Support
Instruction provider
Field Communications
Logistics Coordinator
Life Impactor
Triage
Telephone Interrogator
Abdominal pain radiating into the chest? - correct
answer- 10 chest pain
After a patient stops fitting, what does MPDS require the
caller to do? - correct answer- Launch Agonal
Breathing Defector Tool
Agonal Breathing - correct answer- Ineffective,
deteriorating breathing pattern that lingers after the heart
has stopped. irregular, gasping breaths that precedes
death.
, All command list in A4 - correct answer- PHELP
AMI - correct answer- acute myocardial
infarction (heart attack)
At Case Entry, when would you use Agonal Breathing Tool
- correct answer- Protocol 12 and 9 - also when
it is uncertain (2nd party) or unknown (3rd party)
Axioms - correct answer- Important features
that are the basis of many decision-making processes
prior to dispatching
Back pain after having a fall - correct answer-
Fall 17
Before an ambulance arrives what could happen to a
patient? - correct answer- They get worse, they
get better or they stay the same.
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) A GRADE
5 Primary components of MPDS - correct answer-
1. Case Entry Protocol
2. Chief Complaint Protocol
3. Diagnostic and Instructional Tools
4. Pre-Arrival Instructions
5. Case Exit Protocols
6 Primary components of Chief Complaint Protocols -
correct answer- 1. Key Questions
2. Determinant Descriptors
3. Post Dispatch Instructions (PDI)
4. Critical EMD Info
5. DLS Links
6. Additional Info
,6 Roles of EMD - correct answer- Life Support
Instruction provider
Field Communications
Logistics Coordinator
Life Impactor
Triage
Telephone Interrogator
Abdominal pain radiating into the chest? - correct
answer- 10 chest pain
After a patient stops fitting, what does MPDS require the
caller to do? - correct answer- Launch Agonal
Breathing Defector Tool
Agonal Breathing - correct answer- Ineffective,
deteriorating breathing pattern that lingers after the heart
has stopped. irregular, gasping breaths that precedes
death.
, All command list in A4 - correct answer- PHELP
AMI - correct answer- acute myocardial
infarction (heart attack)
At Case Entry, when would you use Agonal Breathing Tool
- correct answer- Protocol 12 and 9 - also when
it is uncertain (2nd party) or unknown (3rd party)
Axioms - correct answer- Important features
that are the basis of many decision-making processes
prior to dispatching
Back pain after having a fall - correct answer-
Fall 17
Before an ambulance arrives what could happen to a
patient? - correct answer- They get worse, they
get better or they stay the same.
