Red Cross Lifeguarding Practice Test Questions
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When caring for musculoskeletal injuries, what does RICE stand for? ✔️✔️Rest, Immobilize,
Cold, Elevate
A victim is having a seizure in the water. What should you do? ✔️✔️Support the victim with
his or her head above water until the seizure ends.
How can you protect yourself from possible bloodborne pathogens when treating a victim?
✔️✔️Use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as disposable gloves and a breathing
barrier.
Sudden illness can be identified by many things, including... ✔️✔️Loss of vision or blurred
vision, changes in skin condition, or nausea/vomiting.
What is the universal sign that a person is choking? ✔️✔️Clutching the throat.
You are performing CPR when a second lifeguard arrives. What is most appropriate for the
second lifeguard to do first? ✔️✔️Check to see whether EMS personell have been called.
What is the first step in the Cardiac Chain of Survival? ✔️✔️Early recognition and access to
emergency medical services (EMS) system.
You must keep checking a victim's LOC in a secondary assessment. What does the "C" in LOC
stand for? ✔️✔️Consciousness.
, When providing care to a conscious infant who is choking, what part of the hand would you use
to give chest thrusts? ✔️✔️Two or Three fingers.
When immobilizing an injured patron's arm... ✔️✔️Leave the arm in the position you find it or
in the position the patron is holding it.
You are performing CPR on a victim when you notice the chest begins to rise and fall. What do
you do first? ✔️✔️Stop CPR and reassess the victim's breathing and pulse. If the breathing is
not regular, continue CPR as though no breathing were present.
What is the first step you should take in treating a victim with burns? ✔️✔️Remove the victim
from the source of the burn.
A boy clutches at his chest and has problems breathing. After obtaining consent for care, his
mom informs you that he has asthma, but he does not have his inhaler nearby. What care
should you provide? ✔️✔️Call EMS and place the victim in a position that helps breathing.
A patron cuts her leg on the bleachers and is bleeding severely. You can tell she may be in shock
because she may... ✔️✔️Becomes restless and irritable
What should you do when first approaching the scene of an emergency? ✔️✔️Size up the
scene, make sure it is safe for you to interact.
You and another lifeguard are preparing for CPR on an adult. You find no pulse and no
breathing and state "Victim has no pulse. Begin CPR." What should the second lifeguard do
next? ✔️✔️Begin chest compressions.
and Answers| Latest Update
When caring for musculoskeletal injuries, what does RICE stand for? ✔️✔️Rest, Immobilize,
Cold, Elevate
A victim is having a seizure in the water. What should you do? ✔️✔️Support the victim with
his or her head above water until the seizure ends.
How can you protect yourself from possible bloodborne pathogens when treating a victim?
✔️✔️Use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as disposable gloves and a breathing
barrier.
Sudden illness can be identified by many things, including... ✔️✔️Loss of vision or blurred
vision, changes in skin condition, or nausea/vomiting.
What is the universal sign that a person is choking? ✔️✔️Clutching the throat.
You are performing CPR when a second lifeguard arrives. What is most appropriate for the
second lifeguard to do first? ✔️✔️Check to see whether EMS personell have been called.
What is the first step in the Cardiac Chain of Survival? ✔️✔️Early recognition and access to
emergency medical services (EMS) system.
You must keep checking a victim's LOC in a secondary assessment. What does the "C" in LOC
stand for? ✔️✔️Consciousness.
, When providing care to a conscious infant who is choking, what part of the hand would you use
to give chest thrusts? ✔️✔️Two or Three fingers.
When immobilizing an injured patron's arm... ✔️✔️Leave the arm in the position you find it or
in the position the patron is holding it.
You are performing CPR on a victim when you notice the chest begins to rise and fall. What do
you do first? ✔️✔️Stop CPR and reassess the victim's breathing and pulse. If the breathing is
not regular, continue CPR as though no breathing were present.
What is the first step you should take in treating a victim with burns? ✔️✔️Remove the victim
from the source of the burn.
A boy clutches at his chest and has problems breathing. After obtaining consent for care, his
mom informs you that he has asthma, but he does not have his inhaler nearby. What care
should you provide? ✔️✔️Call EMS and place the victim in a position that helps breathing.
A patron cuts her leg on the bleachers and is bleeding severely. You can tell she may be in shock
because she may... ✔️✔️Becomes restless and irritable
What should you do when first approaching the scene of an emergency? ✔️✔️Size up the
scene, make sure it is safe for you to interact.
You and another lifeguard are preparing for CPR on an adult. You find no pulse and no
breathing and state "Victim has no pulse. Begin CPR." What should the second lifeguard do
next? ✔️✔️Begin chest compressions.
