EMD Prioritization and Dispatch 2

Question 1

In the Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS), which determinant level indicates the highest priority requiring an immediate life-threatening response?

Accepted Answer

Delta

Answer

Delta is the highest MPDS priority level, indicating a life-threatening situation requiring the fastest possible response.

Question 2

A caller reports a 45-year-old male who is unresponsive and not breathing. Which MPDS determinant suffix would most likely apply?

Accepted Answer

D – Delta

Answer

Cardiac and respiratory arrest cases default to a Delta-level determinant because they represent immediately life-threatening emergencies.

Question 3

What does the Omega determinant level signify in MPDS?

Accepted Answer

Non-emergency referral or self-care

Answer

Omega indicates a non-emergency situation where the caller can be referred to self-care or a non-emergency resource without an ambulance response.

Question 4

When a caller cannot confirm whether the patient is conscious and breathing, the dispatcher should initially assign which response level?

Accepted Answer

The highest possible level until information is confirmed

Answer

EMD protocol requires dispatching at the highest defensible priority when life-threatening status cannot be ruled out, then downgrading if warranted.

Question 5

A Bravo-level MPDS determinant typically requires which type of response?

Accepted Answer

Potentially serious but non-life-threatening response

Answer

Bravo-level calls are serious but not immediately life-threatening, so a prompt but not necessarily code-3 response is appropriate per local protocol.

(EMD) Emergency Medical Dispatch Practice Test

(EMD) Emergency Medical Dispatch Practice Test

EMD Prioritization and Dispatch 2