Sudden Illness
Trauma
Water Rescues
Land Skills
Childbirth
100

Signs and Symptoms of an Asthma Attack

Wheezing, Hyperventilating, tightness in the chest, fatigue, sweating, weak cry (infants)

100

Types of Bleeding

Capillary: Ooze, dark red, clots with pressure or spontaneously

Venous: steady flow (could be severe), dark red, can be easier to stop than arterial

Arterial: bright red, spurts from the wound, will not clot or stop easily, decreases depending on blood pressure

100

The amount of time it should take you to scan your entire zone

30 seconds

100

Normal range for all baseline vitals

BP: 120/80

Pulse: 60-100

Respiratory: 12-20

100

SIDS

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

200

Types of and providing care for Diabetes

Type 1: Produces insufficient amount of insulin, insulin dependent

Type 2: Produces insufficient amount of insulin but not dependent, can regulate through diet or medication (oral)

Gestational: caused by hormones during pregnancy/shortage of insulin, goes away after childbirth but likely to develop type 2


200

Where and when you place a tourniquet

2 inches above wound, never over a joint


Severe bleeding that is life-threatening and cannot be stopped with direct pressure, scene unsafe, multiple severe victims, cannot apply direct pressure

200

Rescue: A child is bouncing, not realizing he is heading towards deeper waters. He is now barely unable to get his footing to the floor and is struggling. 

Simple Assist

200

Ventilation rate and head tilt position for all individuals

Adult: 1:6, past neutral

Child: 1:2-3, slight past neutral

Infant: 1:2-3, neutral

200

Irregular contractions, related to a false labor

Braxton Hicks Contractions

300

Phases of and types of seizures

Phases: Aura, tonic, clonic, post-ictal

Types: Generalized (tonic-clonic) Partial (simple/complex), Absence (Petit Mal), Febrile

300

Identify Injury: An individual was in a motorcycle accident without protective equipment. He was dragged across the ground causing his skin to be partially torn away.

Avulsion

300

There is an individual in the deep end performing a simulation of a submerged rescue. The rescuer attempted to do a head-first surface dive, but the victim had not submerged enough yet. The rescuer and victim collided heads, one went unconscious and the other didn't but is struggling to stay above water.

EAP and announce multiple victims with spinal, scene/ppe, approach the nearest person

300

Name the mnemonics used in secondary assessment

SAMPLE, OPQRST, DOTS, DCAP-BTLS, AVPU, CMS

300

When an infant is born feet first and how you can create an airway for them

What is Breech birth and 3 minutes?

400

Heart Attack: Term, Cause, and Caring

Myocardial Infarction, Obstruction of blood flow to the heart, 

400

Identify Injury and Extent: An individual was pouring hot water for tea and unfortunately spilled it on herself. The spill covers the front portion of her right thigh. Her quad muscle is now exposed but she is not in pain. 

Full-Thickness Burn, 9%

400

You have just rapidly extricated an individual who you have determined does not have a pulse and is not breathing. You need to apply the AED pads, but they are in a wet rash guard and have a lot of chest hair.

Cut rash guard where necessary, wipe chest with rag, and use razor to remove hair

400

Which delivery device should you use: Your injured persons pulse oximeter is reading 85 and is struggling to stay conscious

BVM

400

Where you clamp the umbilical cord after the infant is born

What is 6 inches above the navel, then 3 inches above that?

500

Differences between heat stroke and heat exhaustion

Stroke: Changes in mental status, could be confused or unresponsive, could lead to seizures, vomiting; less common, more severe; rapidly cool individual for 20 minutes 

Exhaustion: fatigue/loss of appetite, heat cramps, elevated heart & breathing rate; more common, less severe; move to cool environment, cool individual, can provide liquids to hydrate

500

Provide care: You and your manager were completing hourly chems. They needed to check inside the vats but when they opened the lid, chorine shot out and into their eye. 

EAP, Scene size/PPE, move them to the rinse station and flush eye for at least 15 minutes, direct another lifeguard to call 911 upon arrival

500

You're on walk when two adult patrons start to argue but they break away from each other. #1 leaves to the locker room but later returns and approaches the same individual (#2). You hear a loud bang and screams to find #2 bleeding from his abdomen while #1 is running out of the facility but left the weapon.

EAP, scene unsafe, announce for the patrons to leave pool deck
500

EAP, scene/ppe already completed - A mother gives you consent to care for her infant that she states is choking on Cheez-its, but the baby is limp when given to you

Lay on firm, flat surface, begin CPR with obstructed airway

500

What APGAR stands for and the normal range for it

What is Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiratory and 7-10?