Professional Lifeguard
Maintain your skills at a test-ready level.
What is rescue ready?
To get a guest's attention.
What is one short whistle blast used for?
A hold that positions the GID's arms above their head in a tight grip.
What is the Vise Grip?
Wear gloves during cleaning and when coming into contact with a GID.
Is a team effort using the
backboard to rapidly remove an unresponsive guest
from the water with a zero-depth entry area such as a
beach or wave pool.
What is a Carry-Out Technique?
Always keep your eyes on your
assigned Zone of Protection area and avoid
distractions.
What is vigilance?
Provide your name, name of the facility, where the GID is located and other details.
A minimum of two lifeguards can maintain SMR and
use a backboard to remove a guest at the pool edge.
What is Pool Edge Backboarding?
This occurs when any substance interferes with normal body functions after it enters the body.
What is poisoning?
Is for extrication requires a
backboard and at least one other responder. The rapid
extrication is used in facilities with a perimeter edge
or gutter near the waterline.
What is a Pool Edge Technique?
Permission to render appropriate first aid emergency care.
What is consent for care?
This rescue can be used when a small responsive GID is on the surface of deep water and facing you as an approach.
When more than two lifeguards are available, they can work as a team to enter the water, secure the guest to
the backboard, and carry the guest out of shallow water such as a zero-depth facility.
What is a Team Carry Out Backboarding?
This is a warning that the body is getting too warm and its’ ability to cool itself is starting to fail.
This often results from loss of salt and water from heavy sweating.
What is Heat Exhaustion?
Use this tool to clear the substance from GID's airway when vomiting.
What is a V-Vac?
Using mobile devices while on duty and not actively watching the water.
What is unprofessional behavior?
This rescue is used with a responsive child is shallow water and does not require the use of a rescue tube.
What is a Grab and Lift Rescue?
If a guest with a possible spinal injury is standing in shallow water or on land.
When do you to apply SMR?
Is uncontrolled electrical activity in the brain,
which may produce convulsions (shaking), muscle rigidity,
altered levels of consciousness, or thought disturbances.
What is a seizure?
A portable electronic device applied to a guest in cardiac arrest.
What is an AED?
Protects lifeguards from outdoor elements and helps to prevent cancer.
What is sunblock?
The GID needs to be positioned face-up on the rescue tube.
What is the In-Water Rescue Breathing positioning?
Retrieving a GID from the deeper part of the pool using Vise Grip and swimming them to the surface at a 45-degree angle.
What is Deep Water Spinal Rescue?
Is a type of shock associated with a sudden, temporary loss of consciousness resulting from reduced blood flow and oxygen to the brain.
What is fainting?
2. If the guest has a pulse but is not showing signs of normal breathing, begin rescue breathing using a
resuscitation mask or a bag-valve-mask (BVM) attached to supplemental oxygen
What is one of the steps for Care After Extrication?