First Aid Acronyms
L.O.C.
What is level of consciousness?
10:20
What is the amount of time you should scan your entire area, and the amount of time you should be able to get to the victim?
30:2
What is the ratio for compressions to breaths for and adult when performing CPR?
This swimmer is beginning to struggle at the surface of the water, they may be able to wave or call out for help.
What is a distressed swimmer?
100-120 beat per minute
What is the rate for compressions while performing CPR?
F.A.S.T.
What is face, arms, speech, and time?
Things such as performing opening/closing duties, slide checks, chem checks, chores, etc.
What are some of a lifeguard's secondary duties?
1:5-6
What is the ratio for rescue breathing for an adult?
These are the three types of entries a lifeguard can use to enter a swimming pool.
What are slide-in, stride jump, and compact jump?
15:2
What is the ratio of compressions to breaths during CPR for a child or infant when you have 2 or more rescuers?
R.I.C.E.
What is rest, immobilize, cold, and elevate?
This is the in-line stabilization technique you should use when placing a responsive victim on the backboard with a suspected spinal injury.
What is the over-arm head splint?
2-2.4 inches
What is the depth of a compression for an adult?
A condition in which you would support the person's head above water until the convulsions have stopped then you would remove them from the water and care for any conditions found.
What is a seizure in the water?
This is where you would place AED pads if they risked touching each other on an infant or small child, with typical placement.
What is the middle of the chest and the back?
S.A.M.P.L.E.
What is signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past medical history, last oral intake, and events leading up to the incident?
Ask drills, live recognition drills, lifeguard station response time testing.
What are the three types of zone evaluations?
This device should be used to give ventilations when you have two or more rescuers performing CPR.
What is a BVM or bag valve mask?
1. ensure the safety of the victim and yourself 2. use a rescue technique that is appropriate/effective 3. provide an appropriate assessment, caring for life-threatening conditions first 4. handle the rescue with a sense of urgency
What are the four core objectives in any rescue situation?
This is when you can use an encircling thumbs hand placement.
What is the hand placement technique when you are performing CPR on an infant with two or more rescuers?
What is the difference between signs and symptoms in the S in the acronym SAMPLE?
What is a sign is something you can see and symptom is something that they are feeling?
The swimmer must submerge, return to the surface of the water, then tread or float for about 1 minute.
What is the water competency sequence?
The first link in the _______ is recognition of a cardiac emergency and activation of the emergency action plan (EAP).
What is the cardiac chain of survival for adults?
This is the text book term for taking someone out of the pool quickly using a backboard, when you do not suspect a spinal injury.
What is an extrication using a backboard at the pool edge?
The name of the artery where you check a pulse on an infant.
What is the brachial artery?