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Lifeguard Training

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. FIND - D
Decide which solution is best
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
A limb may fall or be torn off

2. How to stay healthy and fit
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water

3. CPR adult
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Preventing injuries - enforcing rules - recognizing and responding quickly to emergencies - administering first aid and CPR - and informing others when help is needed.
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2

4. Life-jackets: Type IV
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
Figure out the problem
Offshore use
Throwable devices

5. V-Fib
Knowledgeable
A limb may fall or be torn off
Flotation Aid
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.

6. Atria
Special Use Device
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
The two upper chambers of the heart.

7. Life-jackets: Type V
Special Use Device
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.

8. Life-jackets: Type III
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
Special Use Device
Flotation Aid
Name the pros and cons for each solution

9. ABC's
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
airway - breathing - circulation
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.

10. Passive drowning
Reliable
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
not moving - head underwater

11. Dehydration
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
Minor cut or scrape.
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact

12. Laceration
Cut bleeds freely - bad.
Flotation Aid
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
airway - breathing - circulation

13. Fibrillation
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
The quivering of the ventricles.
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.

14. BVM
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
Decide which solution is best
Flotation Aid
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.

15. FIND - I
Near Shore Buoyant Vest
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
Identify possible solutions

16. Characterisitcs of a Professional Lifeguard. Lifeguards must be...
Decide which solution is best
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.

17. Distressed swimmer
condition in which insufficient oxygen reaches the cells (results in cardiac arrest/breathing emergency)
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing

18. Life-jackets: Type I
Offshore use
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water
Throwable devices
Professional

19. Life-Threatening Injuries
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
High Arm in Endangered Spine
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency

20. When is the FIND model used?
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
Figure out the problem
The quivering of the ventricles.

21. Duty to act
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
Mature
The quivering of the ventricles.
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.

22. 2nd good trait of a life guard.
Reliable
High Arm in Endangered Spine
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.

23. Anaphylactic Shock
airway - breathing - circulation
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
A limb may fall or be torn off

24. Primary Responsibilities
Preventing injuries - enforcing rules - recognizing and responding quickly to emergencies - administering first aid and CPR - and informing others when help is needed.
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
Throwable devices
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows

25. Angina Pectoris
Figure out the problem
Pain in the chest.
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.

26. Active drowning
Courteous and Consistent
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
Mature

27. Secondary Responsibilities
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
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.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.

28. 4th good trait of a life guard.
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
An electrical shock to the heart.
Courteous and Consistent

29. Atherosclerosis
Positive
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water
not moving - completely underwater
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.

30. Avulsion
A limb may fall or be torn off
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
airway - breathing - circulation
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water

31. Hypoxi
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
Mature
condition in which insufficient oxygen reaches the cells (results in cardiac arrest/breathing emergency)

32. Rescue Equipment

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33. Overexposure to the sun can cause...
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!
Identify possible solutions
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.

34. Ventricles
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
The two bottom chambers of the heart.
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
Knowledgeable

35. Abrasion
Near Shore Buoyant Vest
High Arm in Endangered Spine
Minor cut or scrape.
Identify possible solutions

36. When choking perform this...
Knowledgeable
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
A limb may fall or be torn off

37. Nonlife-Threatening
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
Flotation Aid
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!

38. V-Tach
A limb may fall or be torn off
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.

39. Negligence
The two upper chambers of the heart.
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.
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
Throwable devices

40. Submerged
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
Knowledgeable
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
not moving - completely underwater

41. RID Factors
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Minor cut or scrape.
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.

42. RID Factors
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
A limb may fall or be torn off
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Pain in the chest.

43. Emphysema
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
Preventing injuries - enforcing rules - recognizing and responding quickly to emergencies - administering first aid and CPR - and informing others when help is needed.
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.
The two upper chambers of the heart.

44. Defibrillation
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.
An electrical shock to the heart.
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
Pain in the chest.

45. Rescue breathing - adult
Figure out the problem
The quivering of the ventricles.
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Reliable

46. Good Samaritan Laws
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
Near Shore Buoyant Vest
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!

47. 1st good trait of a life guard.
Courteous and Consistent
Knowledgeable
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.

48. 3rd good trait of a life guard.
Mature
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
Pain in the chest.
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact

49. Standard of care
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.

50. FIND - F
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.
The two upper chambers of the heart.
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