MPDS Exam Prep Latest Update 2025-2026 Exam 160 Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+
5 Primary components of MPDS - CORRECT ANSWER: 1. Case Entry Protocol
- Chief Complaint Protocol
- Diagnostic and Instructional Tools
- Pre-Arrival Instructions
- Case Exit Protocols
6 Primary components of Chief Complaint Protocols - CORRECT ANSWER: 1. Key
Questions
- Determinant Descriptors
- Post Dispatch Instructions (PDI)
- Critical EMD Info
- DLS Links
- 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
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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.
CB - CORRECT ANSWER: Conscious and breathing but also CALL BACK
CVA - CORRECT ANSWER: Cerebral vascular accident
Define a SERIOUS Haemmorrhage - CORRECT ANSWER: Spurting/pouring
Define agonal breathing - CORRECT ANSWER: each breath greater than 8 seconds. It is abnormal breathing - deteriorating. 2 / 3
Define an extreme fall - CORRECT ANSWER: Greater than 10m or 3 floors
Define the 3 Acuity - CORRECT ANSWER: Acuity 1 - within 30 min 2A
Acuity 2 - within 60 2B Acuity 3 - greater than 60 R3 URGENT- Emergency response - 1C
Difference between 1B or 1C - CORRECT ANSWER: 1B - highest clinical level available 1C - any vehicle in the vicinity
Dispatch Life Support (DLS) - CORRECT ANSWER: Providing care and Links to
appropriate PAI or exit instructions.
ETA - CORRECT ANSWER: expected time of arrival
Explain a re-freak event - CORRECT ANSWER: After a situation has been resolved
(patient attended to), the relative can relive the emotion of the event.
Explain difference between uncertain and unknown breathing. - CORRECT ANSWER:
Uncertain is from 2nd party. They are unsure. Unknown is from 3-4th party and can't be verified.
Explain one reason for not giving aspirin - CORRECT ANSWER: Active stroke; not alert, under 16; allergy to aspirin; bleeding in stools
Four Call Processing Objectives - CORRECT ANSWER: 1. Safety
- System Response
- Patient Care
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