Rescues
The technique used to minimize movement of a patient's head and neck.
What is in-line stabilization? OR What is the head splint?
The amount of time it should take you to complete a full scan of your zone.
What is 10 seconds?
The ratio of compressions to breaths with one rescuer on any age patient.
What is 30:2?
The main technique or way bleeding is stopped.
What is pressure?
The city and country in which the YMCA was founded.
What is London, England
The entry used if the lifeguard is at water level, the depth of the water is at least 5 feet, and the guard must maintain eye contact with the drowning person.
What is the stride jump (entry)?
A visual technique used to properly observe and monitor patrons in the pool.
What is scanning?
The compression depth when performing CPR on an adult.
What is at least two inches?
What the acronym FAST stands for when determining a possible stroke.
What is Face, Arms, Speech, Time?
A sport invented at a YMCA in Springfield, Mass in 1891 that originally used peach baskets as goals.
What is basketball?
Rescuing guard brings drowning person to side, guard on deck places backboard vertically in water, rescuing guard raises one of the drowning person's arm so guard on deck can grab it and slides tube from under person, rescuing lifeguard positions drowning person on board, guards pull and push board out of water
How do you extricate (remove) a person from the water?
Testing the pool water chemistry, performing minor maintenance, completing records and reports, opening and closing duties.
What are secondary responsibilities of a lifeguard?
The ratio of compressions to breaths on a child or infant with two rescuers.
What is 15:2?
A condition in which breathing is difficult.
What is respiratory distress?
The four core values of the YMCA.
What are Caring, Honesty, Respect and Responsibility?
The rescue which has the "J" or "U" hook technique used on an unconscious person as the guard approaches the head of the person.
What is the passive victim front rescue?
A written plan detailing how facility staff should respond in an emergency.
What is an EAP or Emergency Action Plan?
Where AED pads are normally placed on an adult.
What is upper right and lower left?
Make sure EMS has been called, Have patient lie flat on their back, Cover patient with a blanket to prevent loss of body heat, comfort and reassure the patient, DO NOT give anything to eat or drink.
What is the method to treat shock?
A sport invented at the YMCA in Holyoke, Mass in 1895 because the inventor, William Morgan, wanted a sport that was not as strenuous as basketball.
What is volleyball
The rescue used when the drowning person is unconscious, below the surface of the water.
What is the passive submerged rescue?
Head tilted back with face looking up, struggling to keep head above surface, struggling to breath, arms flailing at sides, cannot call for help
What are the behaviors or characteristics of an active drowning person?
The rate of compressions when giving CPR.
What is 100-120 compressions per minute?
What the acronym SAMPLE stands for.
What is Signs and Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Past medical history, Last oral intake, Events leading up to the incident?
What the acronym YMCA stands for.
What is Young Men's Christian Association?