First Things First
The legal principle required to treat a responsive adult or a minor with a parent present
What is consent?
What is 30 seconds?
The ratio of compressions to ventilations when giving multi-rescuer CPR to an adult
What is 30:2?
The entry that should be used when your zone is overly crowded, or you suspect a head, neck, or spinal injury
What is slide-in entry?
The whistle signal that tells everyone to stay where they are and listen for instructions from the lifeguard
What are 3 tweets and 1 blast?
The maximum amount of time it should take to conduct a rapid assessment
What is 10 seconds?
You are actively scanning your zone when a patron begins to display active drowning behaviors. This is the first thing you should do.
Activate the EAP
The depth to which compressions should reach for a child
The first step in completing a passive submerged rescue, which can be carried out in two different ways and always involves tucking the chin
What is a surface dive?
The minimum number of lifeguards that must be present at any swimming or boating session
What is 2?
The ratio of ventilations to seconds for an adult in respiratory arrest
What is 1:6?
The number of hours of inservice training the Red Cross recommends per month
What is 4?
The minimum number of rescuers required to effectively deliver CPR using a BVM
What is 3?
A swimmer dives into the shallow end of your zone and hits their head on the bottom. When you reach them, they are unconscious but appear to be breathing. This is the extrication method you should use to remove them from the water.
What is extrication with spinal motion restriction?
Name the item missing from the boating guard boat: airhorn, zip walkie, guard tube, throw bag, oars
What is type IV flotation device?
Name the 4 reasons why you might deliver chest thrusts to a choking person
the person is pregnant, the person is in a wheelchair, the person is too large to fit your arms around, back blows and abdominal thrusts have not been successful in dislodging the object
The natural mental and visual fatigue that causes a guard's attention to drop after scanning their zone for a long time
What is vigilance decrement?
The position to which the head should be tilted for a child
What is slightly past-neutral?
The depth required to enter the water with a stride jump
What is 5ft?
What is 550?
Name what 5 of the 6 letters in the acronym SAMPLE stand for
signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past medical history, last oral intake, events leading up to incident
The acronym RID stands for
recognition, intrusion, distraction
Name 4 of the 5 situations when it is okay to stop CPR once you have started
another trained provider takes over, an AED is ready to analyze, the scene becomes unsafe, you are too exhausted to continue, you see signs of ROSC
The amount of time in which you should be able to reach, extricate, and deliver the first rescue breaths to a drowning person
What is 1 minute and 30 seconds?
Not including a swim test, the two things a camper must complete before they can kayak at boating
What are tip test and endurance test?