MPDS EXAM PREP ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND

MPDS EXAM PREP (ACTUAL / ) QUESTIONS AND

VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS

Which protocols have an echo level? - ---Answers---2 (Allergies); 6 (breathing); 9 (cardiac); 11 (choking); 15 (electrocution/lightning); 31 (unconscious/fitting)

Where would you find PDIs? - ---Answers---Questions at CE; Within protocols, Case exit instructions

What are the four age groups for CPR - ---Answers---neo- natal care; less than 1; 1-7; 8-adult

How do we determine which protocol to use for a trauma? - -- -Answers---scene safety, mechanism of injury, priority symptoms

Which protocols have the most shunts? - ---Answers---falls (3) and sick person (2)

What is an avulsed tooth? - ---Answers---come out. put in milk

Explain one reason for not giving aspirin - ---Answers--- Active stroke; not alert, under 16; allergy to aspirin; bleeding in stools 1 / 3

Symptoms of a stroke - ---Answers---Paralysis, localized weakness, headache, numbness, slurred speech, inability to speak (aphasia), memory loss, dizziness, blindness to one eye, confusion, loss of consciousness, double vision, .

If a person rings for pain in shoulder/neck, which protocol do you go to? - ---Answers---10 (chest pain)

What is the difference between the domestic and specialised water rescue? - ---Answers---Domestic (pool etc Specialised (river, ocean, dam)

What are some signs or words offered to identify ineffective breathing? - ---Answers---Barely breathing, can't breathe, fighting for air, gasping for air, just a little, making funny noises, not breathing, turning blue or purple

When would you use a protocol 33? - ---Answers---Assessed by doc/RN, community based setting, Going to Hospital ED

What is priority response in Protocol F9? - ---Answers--- Whatever is the highest between system and docs recommendations

Define the 3 Acuity - ---Answers---Acuity 1 - within 30 min 2A Acuity 2 - within 60 2B 2 / 3

Acuity 3 - greater than 60 R3 URGENT- Emergency response - 1C

Difference between 1B or 1C - ---Answers---1B - highest clinical level available 1C - any vehicle in the vicinity

All command list in A4 - ---Answers---PHELP

Questions to ask in F9 and record in comments and notes - --- Answers---Infection (/NI - MRSA - VRE) Also Why, how, are they, what, who else

What gives an R3 responses? - ---Answers---Hospital to hospital Psychiatric Person Ill (protocol 33)

Strategies for managing difficult callers - ---Answers--- Maintain professionalism, advise you need this info, explain the process, acknowledge their fear or anxiety, if their behaviour is uncontrollable tell them that their behaviour is unacceptable, escalate to supervisor

What are codes /STR and /NI mean? - ---Answers---Stretcher and non infectious

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