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Difference between DISTRESS and DROWNING? - ✔✔DISTRESSED- nose and mouth AREN'T covered CAN breathe DROWN- nose and mouth COVERED with water CAN'T breathe 3 - D Scanning, Most urgent risk area of the zone you should look first? - ✔✔Bottom then mid-depth close to surface Knowing appropiate zone size? - ✔✔Possible to scan whole area in 10 sec. and swim in 20 seconds Legal Principle DUTY to ACT mean for a lifeguard? - ✔✔On DUTY, lifeguard is obligated to provied emergency care including CPR. OFF DUTY is a Good Samaritan STAAR? - ✔✔Scan, Target, Asess, Alert, Rescue Best approach for protecting agaist SUN EXPOSURE? - ✔✔At least one shade, and sunscreen MSDS? - ✔✔Material Safety Data Sheet RID? What does it mean? - ✔✔Recogition, Intrusion, Distraction - Identify Need for constant and dedicated survaillance RWI? - ✔✔Recreational Water Illness Objective of MANUAL IN-LINE STABILIZATION? - ✔✔Prevent motion of the the head and neck, and spine
BEST techinizue for Manual in-line stablizaton of a person floating FACE UP on the surface? - ✔✔Vise- Grip WHEN SHOULD you APPPLY backboard CHEST STRAP during a spinal backboarding? - ✔✔FIRST; Right when patient is on backboard 5 components of StarGuard rick management model? - ✔✔1) Prevention 2)Survaillance 3.)Response and Rescue 4.)Emergency Care 5.)Work Place Expectations Observing Universal Precautions means to treat all blood and bodily fluid as infectious, even if you think they do not look infectious. TRUE/FALSE? - ✔✔True EAP? - ✔✔Emergency Action Plan Should an EAP use standard language copied out of a lifeguard textbook? YES/NO? - ✔✔... Guest having SEIZURE IN WATER? What do you do? - ✔✔Head out of water to breathe BEST way to first try to get a STRUGGLING SWIMMER to RELEASE you if she has GRABBED YOU? - ✔✔Submerge them with you and they'll let go Benefit of the LEG-WRAP rescue? - ✔✔No upper body contact PRIMARY OBJECTIVE in managing the rescue of an UNRESPONSIVE DROWNING VICTIM? - ✔✔Providing Artificial Rescusation (oxygen) with Seal-EZ AGANOL BREATHING? - ✔✔Moving tounge and lips,no effective breaths
etc. TYPE OF EVENT suspect possible spinal injury? - ✔✔1)Collision with another patron
- Hit against Wall or floor Find a GUEST who is SWEATY, and PALE, COMPLAINS of TROUBLE BREATHING and the FEELING of a WEIGHT ON HIS CHEST. What is he experiencing? Treatment? - ✔✔Asthma Treatment: 1)Find them combfortable position to breathe 2)Loosen any tight clothing 3.)Assist witht their medication 4.)Alert EMS 5.) Calm them down 'till EMS Find a GUEST who is INJURED AFTER A FALL. SHARP PAIN and SWELLING in her RIGHT LEG and LOOKS BROKE. Treatment? - ✔✔Treatment:
- DON't MOVE ANYTHING 2.) Call EMS find GUEST whose LIPS and FACE are SWELLING quickly from an ALLERGIC REACTION to a BEE STING. Treatment? - ✔✔Allegic Reaction Treatment: 1)Take card and take-out stinger opposite way it went in 2.)Wash stinged area 3.) Ice and Towel
- Anti-itch lotion, considered SEVERe: 5.) Activate EMS
6.)HELP with EPIPEN Find GUEST who is SHIVERING, PALE, and PLEADING for a DRINK OF WATER. What do you do? - ✔✔Hypothermia;DO NOT GIVE DRINK Treatment: 1)Warmer place
- Replace wet clothes with dry ones 3.)Warm Blankets 4.)try to retain body heat 5)Near heat source 6.)Comfort till EMS arrives GUEST COLLAPSED in HOT SUN. He is CONFUSED, and his SKIN is HOT and SWEATY? what is he EXPERIENCING? TREATMENT? - ✔✔HeatExhaustion Treatment: 1)Move to cooler place 2.)Loosen or remove excess clothing 3.)Person lie down 6 to 12 inches. 4.)Apply cool wet clothes 5.)Cold Drink 6.)Get Worse? Call EMS CPR compression rate for all groups? - ✔✔30 compressions BEST WAY to perform CHEST COMPRESSIONS during CPR? - ✔✔1) elbows locked 2.) knee in armpit 3.)hard and fast, minimul interruptions
What FLOW RATE should a REGULATOR be SET AT? - ✔✔ 15 What does the REGULATOR on the OXYGEN TANK CONTROL DO? - ✔✔Control flow of oxygen out of the tank When HANDELING an OXYGEN TANK should you use oil, grease, or adhesive tape near the system? - ✔✔NO EMERGENCY OXYGEN is a ________ gas. - ✔✔Compressed, store away from heat/explosives Is a PRESCRIPTION REQUIRED for EMERGENCY OXYGEN SYSTEMS? - ✔✔No In order for an EMERGENCY OXYGEN SYSTEM to Connect to a BVM or CPR MASK, it MUST have what part? - ✔✔Kink-free, Oxygen Tube Why SHOULD the VALVE on the OXYGEN SYSTEM be CRACKED (slightly opened) BEFORE ATTATCHING the REGULATOR? - ✔✔To assure, oxygen will be released WHY do we want to use the OXYGEN system with a DROWNING VICTIM as SOON as it is AVAILABLE? - ✔✔More oxygen is given than what lifeguards can provide themselves What does the INDICATOR GAUGE on the regulator TELL you? - ✔✔amount of oxygen left in the tank When STORING OXYGEN, what CONDITION should be AVOIDED? - ✔✔Away from explosives and heat SLIDE HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS are usually set by WHO? - ✔✔The waterpark In an attraction with a current, a SPINAL INJURY VICTIM SHOULD be PLACED, SO that the WATER FLOWS from the VICTIM'S ________? - ✔✔Head to Toes, so it supports head and body
When JUMPING INTO a WAVEPOOL should you ENTER at the HEIGHT or TROUGH of the wave? - ✔✔Enter @ Heighth of WAVEPOOL When WAVES are on IN a WAVEPOOL should you SIT or STAND? - ✔✔Stand CONTROL of RIDERS at the TOP of the TOWER is USUALLY CALLED WHAT? - ✔✔Slide Dispatch COMMUNICATION between LIFEGUARDS at the TOP and BOTTM of the slides usually ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH what MEANS? - ✔✔Hand or Flag Signals You should BE AWARE of the SPECIFIC _______ for each attraction. - ✔✔guidelines
