PREVENT
The YMCA Lifeguard decision-making model that helps you make important preventive decisions.
PACA
The technique used by YMCA lifeguards to ensure that systematic visual sweeps are conducted of the facility and patrons.
Scanning
The entry used when entering the water from a heightened position.
Compact jump.
The device used to analyze a victim’s heart rhythm and provide an electrical shock to the heart.
AED.
When a team of lifeguards is guarding the area near a play structure or any floating structure water attraction, they require sight lines that allow them a __ degree view.
The YMCA Accident Prevention System
Q-1-2
A person can slip below the surface in as quickly as:
20 seconds.
Two types of assists that may be used for distressed swimmers who are near enough to be reached from the side of the pool or dock.
Reaching and extension assists.
The procedures outlined to protect emergency responders, including lifeguards, from contact with victims’ body fluids in an emergency are known as:
Standard precautions.
If you are caught in a rip current, you should:
Remain calm and swim out of the current in a direction following the shoreline and then to shore.
The YMCA Lifeguard recommends that lifeguard zones be designed so that it takes no longer than ____ seconds for lifeguards to reach the farthest area of their zones.
20 seconds
Inattentional blindness is a term that refers to:
Failing to notice something happening right in front of you because you are focused intently on something else.
Another name for a resting position
Survival float.
The type of emergency care device allows you to remove foreign material from a person’s airway.
Manual suction device (or "vom vac.")
Two search methods that lifeguards use during search–and-rescue operations
Shallow-water and deep-water search methods.
A common physical condition that can quickly affect a person’s ability to swim.
Muscle cramp.
What swimmers at risk of becoming distressed may display.
Early warning signs.
When a distressed swimmer grabs the lifeguard during a rescue and the lifeguard takes a breath, and submerges, pushing the rescue tube or buoy up and toward the victim.
Submerge defense.
A chronic condition of the nervous system in which electrical activity in the brain causes a seizure.
Epilepsy
To perform spinal injury management in moving water, the lifeguard places the victim with:
The victim’s head upstream.
The one thing that should always be conducted when guarding day camp, childcare, rental groups, and special events in the pool.
A safety swim test.
How long after the drowning process cardiac arrest may begin because the heart ceases to pump blood when deprived of oxygen.
3 to 5 minutes.
The technique used to perform rescue breathing on an unconscious suspected spinal injury victim.
Jaw–thrust without head tilt.
When a victim a lifeguard is caring for has puncture with an embedded object in the wound, the lifeguard should:
Not remove the impaled object from the victim.
The type of search pattern beneficial to use when there are areas where strong currents are likely to have influenced the search.
Diagonal