SURVEILLANCE
A person who appears unresponsive in the water at the surface, sinking or on the bottom.
What is a passive drowning person?
This entry is used when jumping off of an elevated stand into deep water.
What is compact jump?
To thrust the rescue tube into the person's chest to provide support.
What is an active front rescue?
When approaching a victim with a suspected head/neck/back injury at the surface of the water, you should approach from this side of the victim.
What is the feet?
Wearing the lifeguard uniform properly is an example of this.
What is a professional lifeguard?
Surveillance is a _____ responsibility of a lifeguard.
What is primary?
This entry should only be used when the water is a depth of at least 5 ft and you are no more than 3 ft above the water.
What is stride jump?
This rescue is completed by reaching out, grabbing the victims opposite arm, pulling down in a 'J' motion, rolling the victim over, and pulling them onto the rescue tube.
What is an passive front rescue.
The technique used when in-line stabilization is provided by firmly squeezing the victim's arms against the head.
What is the head splint technique?
Examples of attire that is appropriate for outdoor lifeguarding include these.
What are sunglasses?
What is a hat/visor?
How often a lifeguard should scan the entire area of their zone.
What is 30 seconds?
This type of rescue does not require an entry.
What is a reaching assist?
This approach is used to rescue a passive drowning person who is submerged in deep water.
What is a surface dive?
(feet-first or head-first)
True or False:
You should only suspect a head/neck/back injury if you saw what happened?
What is true?
These are three items that should be worn at all times.
What is rescue tube, hip pack & whistle?
An action that indicates that a lifeguard is using an effective scanning technique?
What is moving head and/or eyes?
What is looking directly at each patron in the zone?
What is scanning the top, middle, & bottom of the water?
A lifeguard is conducting surveillance from a ground-level station. The water depth in their zone is 4 feet. A person at the far end of their zone starts to display active drowning behaviors. The water in front of their zone is crowded with patrons.
What is slide-in entry?
During the rapid extrication of a passive drowning person from the edge of the water, once the person is centered on the backboard, the rescuing and assisting lifeguards should move the backboard to this position.
What is near horizontal?
When placing a victim with a suspected spinal injury onto a backboard, the strap should be placed in this position.
What is high across the victim's chest?
PPE that should be carried in a hip pack at all times.
What are disposable gloves & a resuscitation mask?
A patron in the water is vertical, struggling to keep their face above the water, has their arms extended to their sides, is pressing down for support and is not making any forward progress in the water.
What is an active drowning person?
A lifeguard should be able to reach any area of their zone and remove a victim from the water in this amount of time.
What is 1.5 to 2 minutes?
When towing a passive drowning person to an exit point, this is the technique that should be used.
What is one-arm-over, one-arm-pulling?
What is lay the drowning person's head back in an open airway position?
True or False:
A child at a waterpark is knocked over by a wave and hits their head on the bottom of the wave pool. When turned face-up, they do not appear to be breathing.
The head splint technique should be used in this situation.
What is false?
This is the correct way to remove disposable gloves.
(Please demonstrate.)
What is pinching the center of the first glove, removing and balling up in the still gloved hand. Then, placing two fingers under the wrist of the second glove, and removing by turning inside out with the first glove inside of the second glove?