MPDS and Patient Assessment

[Guest guest]

I'd like to pose this question particularly to the EMS educators and QA/QI/QC

folks...

Do you believe (anecdotally or empirically) that receiving MPDS/EMD call

information has any bearing on the field crews' patient assessment? For

example, if the dispatcher tells the crew that the call is a " Priority 3

respiratory, " that the crew will, perhaps subconsciously, focus on a respiratory

emergency and exclude other possibilities?

Thanks,

Wes Ogilvie, MPA, JD, EMT-B

Austin, Texas