APCO EMD TEST Questions With Verified
Answers
What are the course objectives for an EMD? - answerUnderstanding the role of an EMD,
Obtaining enough information through vital point questions, and giving appropriate pre- arrival
instructions
What are prerequisites for an EMD? - answerCurrent/val...
What are the course objectives for an EMD? - answer✔Understanding the role of an EMD,
Obtaining enough information through vital point questions, and giving appropriate pre- arrival
instructions
What are prerequisites for an EMD? - answer✔Current/valid CPR Certification
The EMD plays a vita role in what? - answer✔The EMS system
Fire personnel often are a part of the _____ EMS systems because they have received specialized
medical training. - answer✔Local
Responding to the scene lights and sirens is considered a what call? - answer✔Hot
An EMD is responsible for _______ and _______ Ems resources based on the predetermined
response configurations found in the local medically approved EMD guidecards -
answer✔Coordinating and Dispatching
EMD course was designed to provide enough material except one of the following - answer✔1.
State and identify the roles and responsibilities of an EMD
2. Obtain sufficient and accurate information from callers to dispatch resources properly and
efficiently
3. Give appropriate pre-arrival instruction to callers as locally approved medical interrogation
guide-cards indicate.
(NOT... Diagnose the medical/Traumatic issues for responders)
A successful EMD maintains higher lever of - answer✔Confidentiality
A successful EMD is - answer✔Helpful, Compassionate, and polite
one of the most important functions of an EMD - answer✔Resource Allocation
A resource with basic life support capability, dispatched and told to respond in a normal response
mode. - answer✔BLS Cold
A resource with basic life support capability, dispatched and told to respond in an emergency
response mode. - answer✔BLS HOT
A resource with advanced life support with capability, dispatched and told to respond in an
emergency responde mode. - answer✔ALS HOT
When "everything rolls" using the emergency response mode - answer✔Full Response
EMD work in a _________ when relying on the patient self-reporting or third party. Field
medical personnel work on the patients directly - answer✔Blind Environment
What Guide-card can be used on all types of 911 calls - answer✔All Callers interrogation
A patient experiencing chest pains would fall under what call type? - answer✔Individual Chief
Complaint
A person involved in a motor vehicle collision would fall under what call type -
answer✔Traumatic Incident
What call type would be used for CPR instructions? - answer✔Time-life Critical
What call types would be used for obstructed airway - answer✔Time-life Critical
The all callers interrogation falls under what phase of dispatch - answer✔Phase 1
Dispatching a call falls under what phase of dispatch - answer✔Phase 2
Pre-Arrival instructions fall under what phase of dispatch - answer✔Phase 3
syndromes of hysteria are - answer✔Recurrent hysteria, its not working, telescoping of time,
secondary patient
What information is not needed from the caller for VAD - answer✔Heart Transplant
What supports the body, provides movement, and protects vital organs. -
answer✔Musculoskeletal System
Which of the following do patients sense of impending doom - answer✔Cardiac Arrest, Shock,
Respiratory distress, bleeding ( all of the above)
The two main sites of concern when dealing with bleeding are - answer✔internal and external
An abdominal pain complaint that is defined as being most critical - answer✔Ectopic Pregnancy
What guide-card must be used when dealing with pleurisy, pneumonia, hiatal hernias, rib
injuries, muscle strains & shingles - answer✔Chest Pain Guide-card
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