Conscious Rescues
This rescue utilizes a buoyant object that is thrown to the patron to avoid entering the water?
What is a throwing assist?
This is the correct CPR ratio for a lone provider.
What is 30 to 2?
This is the first but most important part in the Safe in Six, which focuses on stopping emergencies before they happen.
What is prevention?
If an unconscious person starts to breathe on their own after being moved to the deck, they should be placed in this position.
What is recovery?
These are the 4 YMCA core values that lifeguards should demonstrate during every interaction with members and guests
What are Caring, Honesty, Respect and Responsibility?
When a spinal injury is suspected in the deep end, the lifeguard should move the patron to this area.
What is the shallow end?
A lifeguard may use this acronym to collect important information about the person having a medical emergency.
What is SAMPLE?
A lifeguard following the 10/20 scanning standard falls into this link in the Safe in Six
What is Recognition?
This equipment should be applied to an unconscious non-breathing patient as soon as it arrives on scene.
What is an AED?
What is eye contact, smiling, saying hello, asking how their day went/how they're doing?
These are ways you can treat shock. You must get 3/3 to gain the points.
What is giving them oxygen?
What is drying them off?
What is calming them down?
Important thing for a lifeguard to do at the start of a seizure emergency
What is noting the time?
A lifeguard who fails to report an incident after it has occurred breaks this link in Safe in Six.
What is report?
True or False: You must attempt to move a patron having a seizure to the pool deck even if the seizure is still actively happening.
Name ways you can ask a member to get out the lane when you are closing it.
We will choose whether your answer gets you the point or not.
This is the part of the body that you don't put the straps over during a spinal.
What is the joints?
This is the name of a device that is only used as a last resort to help control life threatening bleeding.
What is a Tourniquet?
In the Report link, this is only information that a lifeguard should include in the documentation to ensure it can stand in court.
What are facts?
This is the stage of drowning where the patron recognizes that they are in trouble and instinctively holds their breath
What is Initial Apnea?
Greetings you can say to a member when they come in.
(All members of your team must say one thing to get the full point)
What is hello, good morning/afternoon, how are you doing?
True or False: If a suspected spinal patron is unconscious, and not breathing, you should remain back boarding instead of prioritizing immediate extraction
What is False?
To protect yourself from bloodborne pathogens while providing first aid, you should always use this universal precaution.
What is PPE?
This term describes a lifeguard's failure to meet the "standard of care" during Prevention, specifically if they are distracted by social interaction instead of scanning.
What is negligence?
This condition, which is often caused by hyperventilating before a long underwater swim, can cause a swimmer to pass out underwater without any warning signs.
What is Shallow Water Blackout?
Everyone on your team must name one member or guest to get full points.
What is (Blank name)?