Lifeguard course
You are performing CPR on a victim and an assisting responder arrives. Which of the following is most appropriate for the assisting responder to do first?
Check to see whether EMS personnel have called
Your initial impression reveals life-threatening bleeding in an adult victim who appears to be unresponsive. Your next step should be:
Control the bleeding with any available resources
To ensure high-quality CPR and high quality chest compressions, you should:
Expose the victims chest to ensure proper hand placement and for chest recoil.
You and another lifeguard find an unresponsive adult on the locker room floor. The other lifeguard goes to summon EMS personnel. You form an initial impression, complete a primary assessment and find that the victim has a pulse but is not breathing. Which of the following should you do next?
Give ventilations at the ratio of 1 about every 5-6 seconds
When giving compressions to an adult, how would you position your hands?
Heal of one hand on the center of the chest with the other hand on top
When giving abdominal thrusts to an adult who is choking, where should you position your fist?
In the middle of the abdomen, just above the naval
A person has been injured and is responsive. You obtain consent to check the victim for life-threatening conditions. What life-threatening condition would require you to immediately summon EMS personnel.
Persistent chest pain
An injured patron is responsive and is bleeding. After summoning EMS personnel, obtaining consent and putting on disposable gloves, what is your next care step?
Press firmly against the wound with a sterile dressing and bandage
You are giving ventilations to a 5 year old child using a resuscitation mask. You should give 1 ventilation about every:
3 seconds
A patron has slurred speech, is unable to lift their right arm level with their left arm and is unable to smile without one side of their face drooping. You make note of the symptoms started. These are symptoms of:
A stroke
You are providing care to an adult who is unresponsive and not breathing as a result of a drowning. You give the first ventilation before performing CPR and noticed that the chest does not rise. Which of the following should you do next?
Re-tilt the victims head and then attempt another ventilation
A way to remember the questions to ask when taking a brief history to use the acronym SAMPLE. What does the S in SAMPLE stand for?
Signs and symptoms
Which of the following should you do first when approaching the scene of an emergency?
Size-up the scene while forming an initial impression
A 12-year-old child at a swim meet grabs their chest and begins to make wheezing noises. After you obtain consent to provide care, the child's parent informs you that the child has a history of asthma, but does not have an inhaler nearby. What care should you provide?
Summon more advanced medical personnel and place the victim into a position that helps breathing
If a victim is having a seizure in the water:
Support the victim with their head above the water until the seizure ends
You and a patron enter the locker room and find an unresponsive person lying on the floor. You size up the scene and perform an initial impression, and you begin performing a primary assessment. The patron asks, "should we move them to the first aid room?" What should you do next?
Tell the patron the victim should not be moved since there is no immediate danger.
Which of the following statements about performing CPR with two or more rescuers is true?
To reduce rescuer fatigue, rescuers should change positions about every two minutes or when the AED is analyzing.
How can you best protect yourself from bloodborne pathogen transmission when providing care?
Use protective equipment, such as disposable gloves and a breathing barrier, when providing care.
Which of the following statements about bag-valve-mask resuscitators (BVMs) is most accurate?
Ventilations are more effective when two rescuers operate the BVM.