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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. Ventricles
The two bottom chambers of the heart.
Minor cut or scrape.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Offshore use

2. Life-Threatening Injuries
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
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
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2

3. Duty to act
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.

4. FIND - F
High Arm in Endangered Spine
Figure out the problem
A limb may fall or be torn off
Knowledgeable

5. Primary Responsibilities
Preventing injuries - enforcing rules - recognizing and responding quickly to emergencies - administering first aid and CPR - and informing others when help is needed.
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
Name the pros and cons for each solution

6. BVM
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 total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators

7. The three Emergency Prevention Strategies
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
Near Shore Buoyant Vest
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!

8. Emphysema
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators

9. Life-jackets: Type IV
Name the pros and cons for each solution
Special Use Device
Throwable devices
Near Shore Buoyant Vest

10. Fibrillation
The quivering of the ventricles.
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
Cut bleeds freely - bad.

11. Rescue breathing - adult
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
take one breath every 5 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.
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube

12. Atherosclerosis
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
Flotation Aid
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.

13. 4th good trait of a life guard.
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Courteous and Consistent
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.

14. When choking perform this...
A limb may fall or be torn off
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
Mature

15. 3rd good trait of a life guard.
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.
Mature

16. 1st good trait of a life guard.
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube
The quivering of the ventricles.
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Knowledgeable

17. CPR adult
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
Mature

18. Rescue breathing - child
Minor cut or scrape.
Throwable devices
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.

19. When is the FIND model used?
The quivering of the ventricles.
Professional
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.

20. Overexposure to the sun can cause...
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.

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

22. Good Samaritan Laws
The quivering of the ventricles.
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
Throwable devices

23. F.A.S.T.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
Knowledgeable
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact

24. Standard of care
airway - breathing - circulation
A limb may fall or be torn off
Flotation Aid
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.

25. 5th good trait of a life guard.
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Positive
The two bottom chambers of the heart.
High Arm in Endangered Spine

26. Life-jackets: Type V
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube
Special Use Device
condition in which insufficient oxygen reaches the cells (results in cardiac arrest/breathing emergency)

27. Laceration
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
Cut bleeds freely - bad.
Professional
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.

28. V-Fib
Throwable devices
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.
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.

29. ABC's
Positive
airway - breathing - circulation
Minor cut or scrape.
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows

30. 6th good trait of a life guard.
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Professional
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2

31. CPR child
High Arm in Endangered Spine
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Special Use Device

32. Passive drowning
not moving - head underwater
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!
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators

33. Distressed swimmer
Mature
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
High Arm in Endangered Spine

34. Life-jackets: Type III
Throwable devices
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
The two bottom chambers of the heart.
Flotation Aid

35. CPR infant
Flotation Aid
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Knowledgeable
The quivering of the ventricles.

36. Hypoxi
condition in which insufficient oxygen reaches the cells (results in cardiac arrest/breathing emergency)
Flotation Aid
Reliable
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube

37. Atria
Special Use Device
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
The two upper chambers of the heart.

38. Active drowning
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
Minor cut or scrape.
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.

39. V-Tach
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
condition in which insufficient oxygen reaches the cells (results in cardiac arrest/breathing emergency)
Name the pros and cons for each solution
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.

40. FIND - I
Decide which solution is best
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
Identify possible solutions
Offshore use

41. Defibrillation
An electrical shock to 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!
Minor cut or scrape.
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.

42. Life-jackets: Type I
Name the pros and cons for each solution
Offshore use
Mature
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.

43. Submerged
Mature
Courteous and Consistent
Reliable
not moving - completely underwater

44. RID Factors
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Decide which solution is best
Minor cut or scrape.
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.

45. Rescue Equipment

46. How to stay healthy and fit
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Knowledgeable
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows

47. Characterisitcs of a Professional Lifeguard. Lifeguards must be...
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.
Mature
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.

48. Abrasion
not moving - head underwater
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Minor cut or scrape.
High Arm in Endangered Spine

49. FIND - D
Decide which solution is best
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.
The two upper chambers of the heart.
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency

50. Secondary Responsibilities
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Decide which solution is best
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.