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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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1. Job Description
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
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.
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.

2. CPR child
Reliable
The quivering of the ventricles.
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2

3. Life-jackets: Type V
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
Special Use Device
The two upper chambers of the heart.

4. Life-Threatening Injuries
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
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. Life-jackets: Type IV
Throwable devices
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.

6. The three Emergency Prevention Strategies
Cut bleeds freely - bad.
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.

7. Distressed swimmer
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!
Pain in the chest.
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing

8. RID Factors
High Arm in Endangered Spine
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Courteous and Consistent

9. Life-jackets: Type II
Mature
Near Shore Buoyant Vest
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.

10. Rescue breathing - adult
High Arm in Endangered Spine
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.

11. Avulsion
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
A limb may fall or be torn off
Decide which solution is best

12. Duty to act
High Arm in Endangered Spine
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency

13. When choking perform this...
The two bottom chambers of the heart.
Positive
High Arm in Endangered Spine
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows

14. H.A.I.N.E.S.
Pain in the chest.
Preventing injuries - enforcing rules - recognizing and responding quickly to emergencies - administering first aid and CPR - and informing others when help is needed.
Professional
High Arm in Endangered Spine

15. V-Tach
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.
Offshore use
Preventing injuries - enforcing rules - recognizing and responding quickly to emergencies - administering first aid and CPR - and informing others when help is needed.
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check

16. Fibrillation
The quivering of the ventricles.
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
The two bottom chambers 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!

17. CPR infant
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
Pain in the chest.
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!

18. Active drowning
Identify possible solutions
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact

19. CPR adult
Identify possible solutions
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
Flotation Aid

20. RID Factors
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.

21. 3rd good trait of a life guard.
Identify possible solutions
Mature
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
Pain in the chest.

22. ABC's
Flotation Aid
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Throwable devices
airway - breathing - circulation

23. Emphysema
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
Throwable devices
Identify possible solutions
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.

24. Atherosclerosis
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!
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check

25. Life-jackets: Type III
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Flotation Aid
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing

26. Hypoxi
The two upper chambers of the heart.
airway - breathing - circulation
condition in which insufficient oxygen reaches the cells (results in cardiac arrest/breathing emergency)
Pain in the chest.

27. 4th good trait of a life guard.
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
Courteous and Consistent
Name the pros and cons for each solution

28. 2nd good trait of a life guard.
Reliable
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!
Preventing injuries - enforcing rules - recognizing and responding quickly to emergencies - administering first aid and CPR - and informing others when help is needed.
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.

29. FIND - F
Figure out the problem
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
not moving - head underwater
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.

30. Laceration
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Cut bleeds freely - bad.

31. V-Fib
Reliable
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check

32. Primary Responsibilities
Positive
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Preventing injuries - enforcing rules - recognizing and responding quickly to emergencies - administering first aid and CPR - and informing others when help is needed.

33. Standard of care
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency

34. Facts about drownings
Identify possible solutions
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 - head underwater
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2

35. Defibrillation
An electrical shock to the heart.
Positive
Identify possible solutions
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.

36. FIND - N
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
Name the pros and cons for each solution
Minor cut or scrape.
Figure out the problem

37. When is the FIND model used?
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
Flotation Aid
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2

38. How to stay healthy and fit
Professional
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.
Name the pros and cons for each solution

39. F.A.S.T.
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
not moving - head underwater
Offshore use
Face - Arm - Speech - Time

40. BVM
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
Name the pros and cons for each solution
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency

41. Abrasion
Minor cut or scrape.
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.

42. Good Samaritan Laws
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
Special Use Device
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!
Near Shore Buoyant Vest

43. Submerged
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
The two bottom chambers of the heart.
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check
not moving - completely underwater

44. Rescue Equipment

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45. Ventricles
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Decide which solution is best
The two bottom chambers of the heart.
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.

46. 6th good trait of a life guard.
Offshore use
Professional
High Arm in Endangered Spine
Reliable

47. Rescue breathing - child
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
not moving - completely underwater
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check

48. FIND - D
Mature
Courteous and Consistent
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
Decide which solution is best

49. Dehydration
Flotation Aid
High Arm in Endangered Spine
The two upper chambers of the heart.
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.

50. Negligence
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
Figure out the problem
Pain in the chest.
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.