CPR
What is the ratio of compressions you should complete to breaths?
What is 30 compressions to 2 breaths?
What is the first thing you should check for in your rescuer's checklist and give an example?
What is hazards?
What is the ladder approach in rescues?
A progression of rescue methods from safest (Talk) to most risky (carry)
What are the aims of the lifesaving society?
What is prevention, education and leadership?
What is the compression rate per minute for high-quality CPR?
What is the rescue process?
What is, recognize, assess act?
From the lowest to highest risk, name each step of the rescue ladder
What are the pre-requisites to Bronze Medallion?
You should compress this diameter of a child's chest during chest compressions.
What is, 1/3 of the child's chest up to 2inches
What is it protects you from being grabbed and provides flotation for the victim.
In what type of enviorment might the "row" step not be possible, and what alternative would be safer to use?
What is in a pool or a body of confined water with no boat available- safer alternatives would be to talk, throw, reach or wade depending on distance and depth.
Why is fitness important for lifeguards?
What is, it improves rescue ability, endurance, victim and rescuer safety.
What is, one second?
What is the difference between being in distress and drowning?
What is, being able to still call for help/assist oneself, and unable to breathe/call for help.
What is:
An assistive carry provides you with the most safety but least control over the victim (ex: elbow, wrist, clothes, underarm, single-chin), weak, tired, injured below the waist
A control carry provides you with the least safety but most control over the victim. Unconscious, non-swimmers, DNS, injured above or below the waist
(Ex. head carry, double-chin, modified, cross-chest carry)
What is the lifesaving society's motto in latin?
What is quemcunque misery voiders hominemscias ?
On a boarded-spinal victim, if the application of an AED is needed, what are the steps needed before applying the chest pads?
What is, drying off the chest, cutting off clothes, shaving off the chest, taking off the chest straps?
You approach a conscious but panicking victim with a buoyant aid. They grab onto you instead of the aid. What specific defensive technique should you use, and why?
What is, use a block and turn or duck away?
These techniques allow you to free you from the victim's grasp while maintaining safety and allowing you to reattempt the rescue with control.
Why might a rescuer skip a step on the rescue ladder and what must they consider before doing so?
In what year was the first Bronze Medallion award awarded earned?
What is 1896?