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Lifeguard Training

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. Distressed swimmer
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
Name the pros and cons for each solution
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check

2. Fibrillation
Courteous and Consistent
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.
The quivering of the ventricles.

3. Life-Threatening Injuries
High Arm in Endangered Spine
Name the pros and cons for each solution
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
Offshore use

4. Negligence
Courteous and Consistent
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
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.

5. Good Samaritan Laws
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
Knowledgeable
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube

6. Rescue breathing - child
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Positive
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube
Minor cut or scrape.

7. When choking perform this...
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Knowledgeable
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube
Cut bleeds freely - bad.

8. ABC's
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
airway - breathing - circulation
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.

9. 1st good trait of a life guard.
Positive
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube
Knowledgeable
The two bottom chambers of the heart.

10. H.A.I.N.E.S.
High Arm in Endangered Spine
Decide which solution is best
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.

11. Angina Pectoris
Pain in the chest.
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
Cut bleeds freely - bad.

12. RID Factors
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Professional
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2

13. FIND - N
Name the pros and cons for each solution
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
Throwable devices
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.

14. Job Description
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
Throwable devices
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.

15. FIND - I
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
Mature
Identify possible solutions
Offshore use

16. Rescue Equipment

17. Facts about drownings
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water
Decide which solution is best
Special Use Device
not moving - completely underwater

18. RID Factors
Figure out the problem
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
High Arm in Endangered Spine
Decide which solution is best

19. FIND - D
Decide which solution is best
Near Shore Buoyant Vest
Cut bleeds freely - bad.
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube

20. Dehydration
Name the pros and cons for each solution
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
A limb may fall or be torn off

21. Rescue breathing - adult
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
airway - breathing - circulation
Positive

22. How to stay healthy and fit
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
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
Identify possible solutions

23. Defibrillation
An electrical shock to the heart.
Flotation Aid
A limb may fall or be torn off
Mature

24. BVM
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Offshore use
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.

25. Standard of care
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.
The two upper chambers of the heart.

26. Atria
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
The two upper chambers of the heart.
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2

27. Avulsion
A limb may fall or be torn off
Throwable devices
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact

28. Life-jackets: Type V
airway - breathing - circulation
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
Special Use Device
not moving - completely underwater

29. Anaphylactic Shock
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.
Reliable
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.

30. Atherosclerosis
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
The quivering of the ventricles.
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
Identify possible solutions

31. 2nd good trait of a life guard.
Reliable
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
not moving - head underwater

32. Abrasion
Minor cut or scrape.
Identify possible solutions
Mature
A limb may fall or be torn off

33. The three Emergency Prevention Strategies
Professional
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.

34. Hypoxi
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
condition in which insufficient oxygen reaches the cells (results in cardiac arrest/breathing emergency)
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.
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators

35. V-Fib
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.

36. Laceration
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
Cut bleeds freely - bad.
The two upper chambers of the heart.

37. 4th good trait of a life guard.
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
Courteous and Consistent

38. Active drowning
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact

39. Primary Responsibilities
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
The two upper chambers of the heart.
Preventing injuries - enforcing rules - recognizing and responding quickly to emergencies - administering first aid and CPR - and informing others when help is needed.
Identify possible solutions

40. Life-jackets: Type III
Flotation Aid
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
An electrical shock to the heart.
Identify possible solutions

41. Duty to act
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
Professional
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2

42. Life-jackets: Type I
Mature
Offshore use
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.

43. F.A.S.T.
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.

44. Emphysema
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
not moving - completely underwater
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
The two upper chambers of the heart.

45. Overexposure to the sun can cause...
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.
Throwable devices
The quivering of the ventricles.
Near Shore Buoyant Vest

46. Submerged
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
not moving - completely underwater
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.
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. V-Tach
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.
Minor cut or scrape.
airway - breathing - circulation

48. 6th good trait of a life guard.
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube
Professional
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact

49. Life-jackets: Type IV
Throwable devices
Pain in the chest.
The two bottom chambers of the heart.
Decide which solution is best

50. Ventricles
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
The two bottom chambers of the heart.
Throwable devices
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.