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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. Abrasion
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
Near Shore Buoyant Vest
Throwable devices
Minor cut or scrape.

2. Submerged
not moving - completely underwater
Professional
A limb may fall or be torn off
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.

3. When is the FIND model used?
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
The two upper chambers of the heart.
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.

4. Life-jackets: Type III
The two bottom chambers of the heart.
Figure out the problem
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
Flotation Aid

5. Life-Threatening Injuries
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
Name the pros and cons for each solution
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.

6. Passive drowning
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
not moving - head underwater

7. 5th good trait of a life guard.
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Positive
Pain in the chest.

8. Secondary Responsibilities
Professional
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.

9. Defibrillation
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
An electrical shock to 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.
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.

10. Job Description
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by preventing and responding to emergencies.
Face - Arm - Speech - Time

11. 2nd good trait of a life guard.
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
Reliable
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency

12. Fibrillation
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
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

13. Atherosclerosis
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
Reliable
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
Mature

14. How to stay healthy and fit
Near Shore Buoyant Vest
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.

15. Overexposure to the sun can cause...
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water
reaching pole - shepherd's pole - ring buoy - rescue board - rescue tube
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.

16. FIND - D
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
Offshore use
Decide which solution is best

17. FIND - I
Identify possible solutions
Near Shore Buoyant Vest
The two upper chambers of the heart.
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.

18. Rescue breathing - child
Special Use Device
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
Minor cut or scrape.

19. Emphysema
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
Minor cut or scrape.
not moving - head underwater
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.

20. FIND - F
not moving - completely underwater
Figure out the problem
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.

21. Facts about drownings
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
Throwable devices
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water

22. CPR adult
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
Minor cut or scrape.
Courteous and Consistent

23. Laceration
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.
Face - Arm - Speech - Time
Cut bleeds freely - bad.

24. Dehydration
When making a desicion - but never in emergencies.
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
Arteries are clogged by cholesterol.
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.

25. 3rd good trait of a life guard.
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Name the pros and cons for each solution
Mature
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.

26. Rescue breathing - adult
Protection for people who help someone within their scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people - do good things!
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water
Name the pros and cons for each solution
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check

27. H.A.I.N.E.S.
High Arm in Endangered Spine
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
take one breath every 5 seconds - 10 second pulse check
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2

28. FIND - N
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
Name the pros and cons for each solution
Special Use Device

29. Atria
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
The two upper chambers of the heart.
Minor cut or scrape.
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.

30. Active drowning
not moving - head underwater
breathing/head back - vert. body - no leg power - arms flailing -> short struggle at surfact
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
airway - breathing - circulation

31. Primary Responsibilities
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.
The total disorganized electrical currents of the heart.
Positive

32. 6th good trait of a life guard.
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.
Professional
not moving - head underwater
Face - Arm - Speech - Time

33. Anaphylactic Shock
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
A severe allergic reaction where the air passage ways may swell and restrict breathing.
Mature
A limb may fall or be torn off

34. Standard of care
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
2 fingers - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2

35. Duty to act
Offshore use
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
Mature

36. V-Fib
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
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.

37. Life-jackets: Type IV
The two bottom chambers of the heart.
take one breath every 3 seconds - 10 second pulse check
Throwable devices
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.

38. Characterisitcs of a Professional Lifeguard. Lifeguards must be...
The two bottom chambers of the heart.
not moving - head underwater
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)

39. V-Tach
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.
Submersion - Spinal - Unconsciousness - Breathing Emergencies - Cardiac Emergencies - and Severe Bleeding.
The quivering of the ventricles.
High Arm in Endangered Spine

40. CPR child
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 15&2
When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
A disease in which lungs lose their ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen efficiently - causing a shortness of breath.
Name the pros and cons for each solution

41. 4th good trait of a life guard.
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
High Arm in Endangered Spine
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
Courteous and Consistent

42. BVM
An electrical shock to the heart.
Bag Valve Mask resuscitators
active drownings have 20-60seconds before submerging - active drownings can be submerged or at surfact - distressed and active drownings look alike in water
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.

43. Life-jackets: Type V
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
exercise - eat and hydrate properly - rest adequately - use sun protection - and refrain from using alcohol and other drugs.
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.
Special Use Device

44. The three Emergency Prevention Strategies
Communication with Patrons - Facility Safety Checks - and Patron Surveillance.
Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an emergency
Positive
knowledgable with appropriate skills - reliable - mature - couteous and consistent - positive - and professional.

45. ABC's
airway - breathing - circulation
sunburn - skin cancer - dehydration - heat exaustion - and heat stroke.
Pain in the chest.
Reliable

46. RID Factors
Figure out the problem
The two upper chambers of the heart.
Recognizing that someone needs help - Intrusion of secondary duties - and Distractions to the life guard.
Knowledgeable

47. Angina Pectoris
Pain in the chest.
Courteous and Consistent
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Fractures - dislocations - Abrasions - Sunburns(Superficial burns) - Muscle cramps - sprains - and strains.

48. When choking perform this...
2 hands - 30 compressions 2 breaths - 30&2
heimlich maneuver or baby back blows
Near Shore Buoyant Vest
Courteous and Consistent

49. Rescue Equipment

50. Distressed swimmer
little/no foreward progress - no longer has ability to make it to safety - yelling & arms flailing
Communication to help prevent injuries - victim recognition - rescue attempts - and emergency care according to level of training.
The rapid concentration of the ventricles.
Filling out records and reports - maintenance - and inspecting the facility.