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Lifeguard Training

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When is the FIND model used?
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
Identify possible solutions
Near Shore Buoyant Vest

2. Rescue breathing - adult
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water
Knowledgeable
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Failure in following standard of care by failing to provide care - providing too much care (outside of your scope of training) - providing innapropriate care - or failing to prevent problems.

3. 3rd good trait of a life guard.
Mature
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Failure in following standard of care by failing to provide care - providing too much care (outside of your scope of training) - providing innapropriate care - or failing to prevent problems.

4. Emphysema
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
Decide which solution is best

5. Laceration
Identify possible solutions
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
not moving - completely underwater
Cut bleeds freely - bad.

6. Dehydration
Professional
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
A limb may fall or be torn off

7. Job Description
Reliable
Courteous and Consistent
Identify possible solutions
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.

8. Negligence
Flotation Aid
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
Failure in following standard of care by failing to provide care - providing too much care (outside of your scope of training) - providing innapropriate care - or failing to prevent problems.
High Arm in Endangered Spine

9. Submerged
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!
A limb may fall or be torn off
not moving - completely underwater

10. Angina Pectoris
Pain in the chest.
Throwable devices
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
Cut bleeds freely - bad.

11. BVM
Failure in following standard of care by failing to provide care - providing too much care (outside of your scope of training) - providing innapropriate care - or failing to prevent problems.
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Name the pros and cons for each solution
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators

12. ABC's
airway - breathing - circulation
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
Offshore use
Positive

13. FIND - I
Identify possible solutions
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
Knowledgeable
Cut bleeds freely - bad.

14. Characterisitcs of a Professional Lifeguard. Lifeguards must be...
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
The quivering of the ventricles.
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.

15. The three Emergency Prevention Strategies
Name the pros and cons for each solution
Offshore use
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.

16. Life-jackets: Type V
Special Use Device
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency

17. Rescue Equipment

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18. FIND - N
Pain in the chest.
Throwable devices
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Name the pros and cons for each solution

19. Life-jackets: Type I
Professional
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Offshore use
Knowledgeable

20. CPR infant
High Arm in Endangered Spine
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.

21. Atherosclerosis
Near Shore Buoyant Vest
airway - breathing - circulation
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
High Arm in Endangered Spine

22. CPR child
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
not moving - completely underwater
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water
Figure out the problem

23. Passive drowning
Positive
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
not moving - head underwater
Pain in the chest.

24. Anaphylactic Shock
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.
Knowledgeable
Failure in following standard of care by failing to provide care - providing too much care (outside of your scope of training) - providing innapropriate care - or failing to prevent problems.

25. F.A.S.T.
Mature
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators

26. 1st good trait of a life guard.
Knowledgeable
Failure in following standard of care by failing to provide care - providing too much care (outside of your scope of training) - providing innapropriate care - or failing to prevent problems.
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.

27. Distressed swimmer
The quivering of the ventricles.
not moving - completely underwater
Figure out the problem
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing

28. When choking perform this...
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
An electrical shock to the heart.
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
Identify possible solutions

29. Fibrillation
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
The quivering of the ventricles.

30. Hypoxi
condition in which insufficient oxygen reaches the cells (results in cardiac arrest/breathing emergency)
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
Failure in following standard of care by failing to provide care - providing too much care (outside of your scope of training) - providing innapropriate care - or failing to prevent problems.
Positive

31. Avulsion
Decide which solution is best
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
A limb may fall or be torn off

32. How to stay healthy and fit
The quivering of the ventricles.
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
Courteous and Consistent

33. 4th good trait of a life guard.
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Flotation Aid
Courteous and Consistent
not moving - completely underwater

34. Active drowning
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
Decide which solution is best
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube

35. Rescue breathing - child
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Figure out the problem
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.

36. RID Factors
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water
Pain in the chest.
Throwable devices
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.

37. RID Factors
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
A limb may fall or be torn off
The quivering of the ventricles.
Throwable devices

38. Abrasion
condition in which insufficient oxygen reaches the cells (results in cardiac arrest/breathing emergency)
Minor cut or scrape.
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.

39. Atria
Pain in the chest.
The two upper chambers of the heart.
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.

40. Standard of care
The two upper chambers of the heart.
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
airway - breathing - circulation

41. 5th good trait of a life guard.
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
Positive
Preventing injuries - enforcing rules - recognizing and responding quickly to emergencies - administering first aid and CPR - and informing others when help is needed.
Near Shore Buoyant Vest

42. Nonlife-Threatening
not moving - completely underwater
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency

43. Duty to act
Cut bleeds freely - bad.
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
Failure in following standard of care by failing to provide care - providing too much care (outside of your scope of training) - providing innapropriate care - or failing to prevent problems.
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency

44. FIND - D
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
Positive
Decide which solution is best

45. 6th good trait of a life guard.
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
The two upper chambers of the heart.
Professional

46. Life-jackets: Type II
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Near Shore Buoyant Vest
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.

47. Good Samaritan Laws
High Arm in Endangered Spine
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2

48. V-Fib
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.

49. Life-Threatening Injuries
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
Special Use Device
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.

50. CPR adult
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.