StarGuard Written Test Study Guide
Exam Questions and Answers
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
- Is AGANOL BREATHING effective? - -No real Breathing
- PRIMARY GOAL of IN-SERVICE Training? - -Be a competent and confident
lifeguard
- When might an ANIMAL be ALLOWED on pool deck? - -Provided Assitance
for patron
- Threat from child predators high at aquatic facilities. WHY? - -...
- MOST IMPORTANT GOAL of extricating an UNRESPONSIVE drowning victim
FROM the WATER? - -Provide oxyen with AR
- When making rescue in the river SHOULD YOU ENTER UPSTREAM and LET
THE CURRENT MOVE YOU TO THE PERSON? or ENTER DOWNTREAM and LET
THE CURRENT MOVE THE PERSON TO YOU? - -ENTER UPSTREAM and LET
THE CURRENT MOVE YOU TO THE PERSON
- How do you stop the waves or current of an attraction? - -Emergecy Stop
- In order to GUARD a CURVED ZONE, lifeguard DOES what? - -Checked the
corner
Exam Questions and Answers
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
- Is AGANOL BREATHING effective? - -No real Breathing
- PRIMARY GOAL of IN-SERVICE Training? - -Be a competent and confident
lifeguard
- When might an ANIMAL be ALLOWED on pool deck? - -Provided Assitance
for patron
- Threat from child predators high at aquatic facilities. WHY? - -...
- MOST IMPORTANT GOAL of extricating an UNRESPONSIVE drowning victim
FROM the WATER? - -Provide oxyen with AR
- When making rescue in the river SHOULD YOU ENTER UPSTREAM and LET
THE CURRENT MOVE YOU TO THE PERSON? or ENTER DOWNTREAM and LET
THE CURRENT MOVE THE PERSON TO YOU? - -ENTER UPSTREAM and LET
THE CURRENT MOVE YOU TO THE PERSON
- How do you stop the waves or current of an attraction? - -Emergecy Stop
- In order to GUARD a CURVED ZONE, lifeguard DOES what? - -Checked the
corner
