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Starguard Elite Lifeguard Practice Questions
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How deep the water is - Answers✔depends on your height
Drowning chain of survival - Answers✔1. Prevent drowning
2. Recognize distress and give 5 breaths ventilation
3. Provide flotation
4. Remove from water
5. Provide care as needed
What makes a good emergency reaction plan? - Answers✔it can be used in realistic situations
Drowning without brain damage what symptoms should the person look for when the return
home? - Answers✔Breathing issues, cough, fever
The red floaty is for... - Answers✔keeping the lifeguard safe/away from the guest. Used as a
protective barrier
The length of time that passes when someone is drowning is crucial to survival - Answers✔1.
survival without brain damage when drowning
2. survival with damage
3. Death
RID (reasons for lifeguard not seeing drowning) - Answers✔R - Recognition (lifeguard did not
recognize something bad was happening)
I - Intrusion (lifeguard was not attentive to pool)
D - distraction (lifeguard was distracted)
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Pool zone - Answers✔10 - 20
- 10 seconds to see emergency 20 seconds to get there (if not, zone is too big)
Zone assignments change every... - Answers✔20 minutes
Rescue (STAR) - Answers✔Scan, Target, Access, Alert, Rescue
Laryngospasm - Answers✔larynx closes as you're drowning and you start swallowing water
INPUT - Answers✔1. Intoxication
2. Numbness
3. Pain in the neck/back
4. Unusual mental status
5. Trauma around the body
SAMPLE (first aid scenario) - Answers✔1. Signs (you can see) and symptoms (they tell you)
2. Allergies
3. Medications
4. Past pertinent medical history
5. Last oral intake
6. Events leading up to the situation
Passive spinal motion restriction - Answers✔helping someone by not touching them and just
verbally walking them through what to do
Active spinal motion restriction - Answers✔Hold the persons head to stop pain if they can't do it
themselves. thumbs on shoulders, fingers on back, guests head between forearms
HID - Answers✔Head Immobilization Device, backboard, not an evidence based practice
Walking onto emergency scene - Answers✔1. Survey the scene
2. Visually check for bleeding
3. Approach person and do SHOUT TAP SHOUT
4. Call for EMS and AED for "Unresponsive Adult at Address"
4. If they don't answer grab forehead and push it back, put ear at mouth, read pulse, count to 10
Check zone extremes - Answers✔before and after changing lifeguard on lifeguard post
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Starguard Elite Lifeguard Practice Questions
With Verified Answers
How deep the water is - Answers✔depends on your height
Drowning chain of survival - Answers✔1. Prevent drowning
2. Recognize distress and give 5 breaths ventilation
3. Provide flotation
4. Remove from water
5. Provide care as needed
What makes a good emergency reaction plan? - Answers✔it can be used in realistic situations
Drowning without brain damage what symptoms should the person look for when the return
home? - Answers✔Breathing issues, cough, fever
The red floaty is for... - Answers✔keeping the lifeguard safe/away from the guest. Used as a
protective barrier
The length of time that passes when someone is drowning is crucial to survival - Answers✔1.
survival without brain damage when drowning
2. survival with damage
3. Death
RID (reasons for lifeguard not seeing drowning) - Answers✔R - Recognition (lifeguard did not
recognize something bad was happening)
I - Intrusion (lifeguard was not attentive to pool)
D - distraction (lifeguard was distracted)
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Pool zone - Answers✔10 - 20
- 10 seconds to see emergency 20 seconds to get there (if not, zone is too big)
Zone assignments change every... - Answers✔20 minutes
Rescue (STAR) - Answers✔Scan, Target, Access, Alert, Rescue
Laryngospasm - Answers✔larynx closes as you're drowning and you start swallowing water
INPUT - Answers✔1. Intoxication
2. Numbness
3. Pain in the neck/back
4. Unusual mental status
5. Trauma around the body
SAMPLE (first aid scenario) - Answers✔1. Signs (you can see) and symptoms (they tell you)
2. Allergies
3. Medications
4. Past pertinent medical history
5. Last oral intake
6. Events leading up to the situation
Passive spinal motion restriction - Answers✔helping someone by not touching them and just
verbally walking them through what to do
Active spinal motion restriction - Answers✔Hold the persons head to stop pain if they can't do it
themselves. thumbs on shoulders, fingers on back, guests head between forearms
HID - Answers✔Head Immobilization Device, backboard, not an evidence based practice
Walking onto emergency scene - Answers✔1. Survey the scene
2. Visually check for bleeding
3. Approach person and do SHOUT TAP SHOUT
4. Call for EMS and AED for "Unresponsive Adult at Address"
4. If they don't answer grab forehead and push it back, put ear at mouth, read pulse, count to 10
Check zone extremes - Answers✔before and after changing lifeguard on lifeguard post
