First Aid
Occurs when a bone moves out of its normal position within a joint.
What is dislocation?
Entering the pool from the side of the pool, setting your tube in the water, making sure to make as little turbulence as possible.
What is the slide-in entry?
20 patrons
What is the maximum number of patrons in a zone for one guard to survey?
Obtain this from a parent/guardian before giving care.
What is consent?
The first thing you do when a person or child has a complete airway obstruction, and you have activated the EAP.
What is consent?
The technique for applying direct pressure to stop life threatening external bleeding.
What is locking your elbows, positioning shoulders directly over your hands, using both hands to push down as hard as you can?
Minimizing movement of the person's head and neck.
What is in-line stabilization?
Under the lifeguard chair, glare in the water, behind the rec pool pillars.
What are a lifeguard's blind spots?
The rates of compressions to breaths for an infant for a single rescuer and multiple rescuer situation.
What is 30:2 and 15:2?
The first technique used to assist a choking person.
What are 5 back blows?
The mnemonic for a person showing signs of a stroke.
What is FAST? (Face, Arms, Speech, Time)
The first thing you do during a spinal rescue when the person is face-up in the water and in the stabilization technique.
What is checking for breathing?
Recognition, Intrusion, and Distraction.
What is the RID Factor?
The proper rate of ventilations for an infant/child that is not breathing and has a pulse.
What is one breath every 2-3 seconds?
open the mouth, look for an object, and if seen, remove it with a finger sweep.
What do you do before giving ventilations to an unresponsive choking person (after compressions).
Decreased breathing effort, gasping or gurgling, bluish or grayish skin, a decreased LOC/unresponsiveness, pinpoint pupils.
What are signs of an opioid overdose?
You can use your rescue tube to support a person with a head, neck or spinal injury when they are in this position in deep water.
What is "at or near the surface" in deep water?
Approximately 10 seconds.
What is the amount of time a lifeguard should recognize a drowning person?
Use pediatric AED pads or the pediatric setting on the AED.
What do you do when a child is 8 years old or younger, or less than 55 pounds?
Placing your abdominal thrust hand placement in the center of the person's chest on the lower half of the sternum instead of the upper abdomen.
What is aspirin?
Bleeding from the head, difficulty breathing, loss of balance, nausea, vision changes.
What are signs of a brain injury?
Skills for a professional lifeguard (besides having a CPR/First Aid, Lifeguarding certification).
What is communication, leadership, decision making, and customer service?
The first step in the pediatric cardiac chain of survival.
What is prevention?
Never do this more than two times even if the chest does not rise.
What are the correct number of ventilations for a choking person during CPR?