Heart to Heart
Return of spontaneous circulation, or the return of a regular heart rhythm capable of sustaining adequate blood flow throughout the body.
What is ROSC?
A written document that guides the action of lifeguards and other staff members in an emergency.
What is an emergency action plan (EAP)?
1. You witnessed an activity that was high-impact or high-risk. 2. The person has signs or symptoms of a head, neck or spinal injury.
When should you suspect a head, neck or spinal injury?
Give sets of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts to clear the airway.
What care is provided to a responsive adult or child who is choking?
(1) Focused history
(2) Focused examination
What are the two parts of the secondary assessment?
1. Make sure the person is on a firm, flat surface. 2. Provide compressions at the correct rate and proper depth. 3. Allow the chest to return to its normal position after each compression. 4. Minimize interruptions to chest compressions. 5. Avoid excessive ventilations.
What are the five key principles of high-quality CPR?
Safety measures you should take with every person to protect yourself and others from pathogens that are transmitted in blood, body fluids or other potentially infectious materials.
What are standard precautions?
To rescue and remove a person from the water when you suspect a head, neck or spinal injury but the person appears to be breathing.
When should you use in-line stabilization and spinal motion restriction techniques?
Give sets of 5 back blows and 5 chest thrusts to clear the airway.
What is the care provided to a responsive infant who is choking?
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Care provided to a responsive adult or child who is pregnant, known to be pregnant, in a wheelchair with features that prevent abdominal thrusts, you cannot reach far enough around the person to perform abdominal thrusts, or back blows and abdominal thrusts are not effective in dislodging the object.
To obtain additional information about injuries or conditions that might require care and could become life-threatening if not addressed
What is the purpose of the secondary assessment?
1. You see signs of ROSC, such as movement, breathing or coughing. 2. An AED is ready to analyze the heart rhythm. 3. Other trained providers take over and relieve you from giving compressions or ventilations. 4. You are too exhausted to continue. 5. The situation becomes unsafe.
Under what conditions is it acceptable to stop CPR, once you start?
1. To ensure your own safety and the safety of others in the area.
2. To identify life-threatening conditions that need to be addressed right away
Why do you perform a rapid assessment?
This pool design requires both rescuers to get in the water when rescuing someone with a suspected Head, Neck, or Back injury.
Activate the EAP, enter the water, and support the person with their head above water until the seizure ends.
What care would you provide to someone having a seizure in the water?
A term used to describe reasons why a drowning may occur while a lifeguard is on surveillance duty.
What is the RID Factor?
This technique is used for giving compressions while giving CPR to an infant.
What is the encircling thumbs technique?
1)Perform a scene size-up, including checking the scene for safety and forming an initial impression of the injured or ill person. 2) Check for responsiveness. 3) Open the airway and simultaneously check for breathing, a pulse and life-threatening bleeding. 4) Give 2 ventilations if the person is not breathing as a result of drowning. 5) Provide care based on the conditions found
What are the five main parts of the rapid assessment?
This technique is used most of the time to rescue someone with a suspected Head, Neck or Back injury.
What is the Head Splint technique?
These are signs & symptoms of which condition:
Stomach & Leg cramps
Dizziness
Nausea
Pale, cool, clammy skin
Hint: They are still sweating.
What is Heat Exhaustion?
These last three steps should be done after care is provided in an emergency.
What is report, advise & release?
Compress the chest to a depth of about 2 inches.
Check for a brachial pulse.
Where do you check for a pulse on an infant?
Bruising of the head around the eyes or behind the ears
Blood or other fluids in the ears or nose
Severe back pain or pressure in the neck, back or head
Dizziness, Weakness, loss of coordination or numbness
What are signs and symptoms of a Head, Neck or Back injury?
1. Remove them from the source
2. Flush the area thoroughly with large amounts of cool running water for at least 15 minutes.
What is the general care steps for a burn?
You are the second lifeguard to arrive on the scene. The rescuing lifeguard has completed the rapid assessment and is giving chest compressions. What is your best next action?
Confirm that EMS has been called.