ELLIS AND ASSOCIATES LIFEGUARDUPDATED FINAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Musculoskeletal - ✔✔Muscles, bones and joints
✔✔Fainting - ✔✔A sudden loss of consciousness
✔✔Seizures - ✔✔Convulsions
✔✔Anaphylactic Shock - ✔✔Severe allergic reactions
✔✔Asthma - ✔✔Problems with breathing
✔✔Heimlich Maneuver - ✔✔Abdominal Thrusts
✔✔When Conscious Choking occurs: - ✔✔1. Glove up and activate EAP
2. Abdominal thrusts (Back blows/chest thrusts for infants)
3. FBAO
4. Check pulse and breathing to determine whether AR or CPR is necessary
✔✔Rapid Extrications before the backboard - ✔✔1. Whistle, Point, OA, Compact jump
2. Execute the appropriate rescue
3. Activate EAP (3 whistles, clear pool)
4. Spontaneous breath check
5. 2 initial breaths
6. Age appropriate rescue breathing (1:5 adults, 1:3 children/infants)
✔✔Rapid Extrication once at the backboard - ✔✔1. Support the head (onto the black
felt).... Control the board with your outside foot
2. Pass an arm up to the secondary guard
3. Remove the tube off of yourself and from under the guest
4. Clear the secondary's fingers
, 5. Get out and clear the area
6. Each guars grabs an arm and the backboard
7. Safely and carefully extricate the guest 6 feet away
✔✔Secondary guard during a Rapid Extrication - ✔✔2 whistles, calls 911 and clears
pool
✔✔Spinal Extrication (Primary lifeguard pre backboard) - ✔✔1. Whistle, point, OA
2. Ask "Without shaking your head, can you safely get out"
3. Blow whistle 3 times and call for 911 and cleared pool
4. Ease in entry
5. Clasp the guests hands by the ears and lay guest on back while keeping their head
above the water
✔✔Spinal Extrication (Secondary lifeguard pre backboard) - ✔✔1. 2 whistles, clear pool
"there is an aquatic emergency, please clear the pool"
2. Retrieve backboard
✔✔Spinal Extrication (backboard) - ✔✔1. Secondary lifeguard gets guests head to the
black felt and then takes over vise grip
2. Primary straps the guest tightly and re checks straps to make sure they are tight
enough
3. Primary then takes over grip by making C at the cheek bones while holding them
down with the forearm and other hand under backboard
4. Secondary lifeguard puts the blue blocks at the same time
5. Strap is then placed around the head (move out from middle)
6. Primary lifeguard hops out and makes sure area is clear and secondary's fingers are
clear before extrication
✔✔The standard of care expected of lifeguards includes: - ✔✔1. Providing swimmer
protection consistent with the 10/20 Protection Standard
2. Maintaining a professional image
3. Maintaining lifeguard skills including rescues performed at a test-ready level
✔✔Standard precautions - ✔✔measures put in place to reduce the risk of catching
diseases
✔✔When providing emergency medical care to an injured/ill guest - ✔✔Use Personal
Protective Equipment,
Dispose of infected materials properly,
Wash you hands and other areas that may have been exposed to bodily fluids
✔✔A typical audit may evaluate what 5 things? - ✔✔1. Your professionalism and on-
stand performance
2. Your ability to remain vigilant
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Musculoskeletal - ✔✔Muscles, bones and joints
✔✔Fainting - ✔✔A sudden loss of consciousness
✔✔Seizures - ✔✔Convulsions
✔✔Anaphylactic Shock - ✔✔Severe allergic reactions
✔✔Asthma - ✔✔Problems with breathing
✔✔Heimlich Maneuver - ✔✔Abdominal Thrusts
✔✔When Conscious Choking occurs: - ✔✔1. Glove up and activate EAP
2. Abdominal thrusts (Back blows/chest thrusts for infants)
3. FBAO
4. Check pulse and breathing to determine whether AR or CPR is necessary
✔✔Rapid Extrications before the backboard - ✔✔1. Whistle, Point, OA, Compact jump
2. Execute the appropriate rescue
3. Activate EAP (3 whistles, clear pool)
4. Spontaneous breath check
5. 2 initial breaths
6. Age appropriate rescue breathing (1:5 adults, 1:3 children/infants)
✔✔Rapid Extrication once at the backboard - ✔✔1. Support the head (onto the black
felt).... Control the board with your outside foot
2. Pass an arm up to the secondary guard
3. Remove the tube off of yourself and from under the guest
4. Clear the secondary's fingers
, 5. Get out and clear the area
6. Each guars grabs an arm and the backboard
7. Safely and carefully extricate the guest 6 feet away
✔✔Secondary guard during a Rapid Extrication - ✔✔2 whistles, calls 911 and clears
pool
✔✔Spinal Extrication (Primary lifeguard pre backboard) - ✔✔1. Whistle, point, OA
2. Ask "Without shaking your head, can you safely get out"
3. Blow whistle 3 times and call for 911 and cleared pool
4. Ease in entry
5. Clasp the guests hands by the ears and lay guest on back while keeping their head
above the water
✔✔Spinal Extrication (Secondary lifeguard pre backboard) - ✔✔1. 2 whistles, clear pool
"there is an aquatic emergency, please clear the pool"
2. Retrieve backboard
✔✔Spinal Extrication (backboard) - ✔✔1. Secondary lifeguard gets guests head to the
black felt and then takes over vise grip
2. Primary straps the guest tightly and re checks straps to make sure they are tight
enough
3. Primary then takes over grip by making C at the cheek bones while holding them
down with the forearm and other hand under backboard
4. Secondary lifeguard puts the blue blocks at the same time
5. Strap is then placed around the head (move out from middle)
6. Primary lifeguard hops out and makes sure area is clear and secondary's fingers are
clear before extrication
✔✔The standard of care expected of lifeguards includes: - ✔✔1. Providing swimmer
protection consistent with the 10/20 Protection Standard
2. Maintaining a professional image
3. Maintaining lifeguard skills including rescues performed at a test-ready level
✔✔Standard precautions - ✔✔measures put in place to reduce the risk of catching
diseases
✔✔When providing emergency medical care to an injured/ill guest - ✔✔Use Personal
Protective Equipment,
Dispose of infected materials properly,
Wash you hands and other areas that may have been exposed to bodily fluids
✔✔A typical audit may evaluate what 5 things? - ✔✔1. Your professionalism and on-
stand performance
2. Your ability to remain vigilant
