Rules, Laws, Axioms-True/False Quiz

A red question mark (?) indicates it is optional to use the AGONAL breathing tool.

A time between breaths of 8 seconds or more is considered INEFFECTIVE breathing.

If the complaint description involves trauma, choose the CC protocol that addresses the safety issues.

Use of the AGONAL BREATHING detector tool is not necessary when UNCERTAIN or INEFFECTIVE BREATHING is associated with unconsciousness.

When the complaint description is fitting, go to protocol 12 regardless of consciousness and breathing status.

If the caller asks whether the pt should be given their medication now, the EMD can give the instructions to do so if they know how.

In some cases where arrest is due to extremely serious haemorrhage, controlling bleeding before initiating CPR may increase patient survival.

Head tilt is not the only method of airway control in the PAI dispatch environment.

Ripping & tearing pain is not the usual description of a dissecting aneurysm.

Severity of the pain is often related to the seriousness of the problem.

Hurts to breathe is considered difficulty or abnormal breathing.

Colours of clinical significance include; blue , purple, grey, mottled.

Advising a pt to breathe into a paper bag is considered EMD best practice.

NON-RECENT is defined as 6 hours or more since the incident or injury occurred.

All electrical burns are considered worse than they look externally.

A caller can be advised to re-enter a hazardous environment only if they are able to do so safely.

Recreational inhalations of harmful substances (chroming) should be handled on Protocol 8.

A healthy child found in cardiac arrest should be considered to have a heart problem until proven otherwise.

"Funny noises" reported by the caller generally means the pt is unconscious with an uncontrolled airway and may indicate agonal breathing.

The presence of an AED does not ensure it's use - the EMD does.

Chest pain due to trauma should be handled on Protocol 30.

True heart attacks are uncommon in females <35 and males <45.

Only when a pt with a partial airway obstruction begins to lose consciousness should you instruct the caller to do an obstructed airway manoeuvre.

A FOCAL fit involves localised twitching of a part of the body such as the hand, arm, leg or face in an unconscious patient.

Use of the AGONAL BREATHING DETECTOR tool is mandatory after a fit has stopped for all generalised fitting patients.

The airway of an unconscious patient must be constantly maintained.

Sudden traumatic vision problems should be handled on Protocol 28.

Ground level falls caused by fainting should be handled on the falls protocol (17).

A hypothermic pt isn't considered dead until they are warm and dead.

Abdominal and thoracic eviscerations should be handled on Protocol 27.