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✔✔Overexposure to the sun can cause... - ✔✔sunburn, skin cancer, dehydration, heat
exaustion, and heat stroke.
✔✔Dehydration - ✔✔When a person loses more fluids than he/she consumes.
✔✔Primary Responsibilities - ✔✔Preventing injuries, enforcing rules, recognizing and
responding quickly to emergencies, administering first aid and CPR, and informing
others when help is needed.
✔✔Secondary Responsibilities - ✔✔Filling out records and reports, maintenance, and
inspecting the facility.
✔✔Job Description - ✔✔Responsible for ensuring the safety of facility patrons by
preventing and responding to emergencies.
✔✔FIND - F - ✔✔Figure out the problem
✔✔FIND - I - ✔✔Identify possible solutions
✔✔FIND - N - ✔✔Name the pros and cons for each solution
✔✔FIND - D - ✔✔Decide which solution is best
✔✔When is the FIND model used? - ✔✔When making a desicion, but never in
emergencies.
✔✔Duty to act - ✔✔Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an
emergency
✔✔Standard of care - ✔✔Communication to help prevent injuries, victim recognition,
rescue attempts, and emergency care according to level of training.
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔Failure in following standard of care by failing to provide care,
providing too much care (outside of your scope of training), providing innapropriate
care, or failing to prevent problems.
✔✔Good Samaritan Laws - ✔✔Protection for people who help someone within their
scope of training and w/o negligence while not being paid. Good people, do good
things!
, ✔✔What are 4 signals that would help you recognize an emergency? - ✔✔Unusual
sighs, unusual odors, unusual behaviors, and unusual noises
✔✔If someone does not give consent, what do you do? - ✔✔Call 9-1-1
✔✔What are situations in which you would call 9-1-1? - ✔✔No signs of life, no
breathing, unconsciousness, seizures, apparent poisoning, injured arm with bone
showing through the skin, deep burn on face, trouble breathing, and severe bleeding
that does not stop.
✔✔What are situations in which you would move a victim? - ✔✔When the scene is
unsafe, and when someone else is more injured and you need to get to that other
person
✔✔What are ways you could minimize disease transmission? - ✔✔Avoid touching,
breathing, and biting the person
✔✔What are steps you would talk in checking a conscious person? - ✔✔Check the
scene, obtain consent, call 911, as the person what's their name, what happened, any
allergies, where is the pain, any medical conditions, and is there any medications they
take?
✔✔What would you do if someone was in shock? - ✔✔Call 911, have the person lie
down, and control and external bleeding
✔✔What is the best way to check to see if a person is unconscious? - ✔✔Ask them,
"Are you okay, are you okay?"
✔✔What is the most important step to take in an emergency situation? - ✔✔Call 911
✔✔What are the signs of troubled breathing? - ✔✔Slow or rapid breathing,, usually
deep or shallow breathing, gasping for breath, unusually moist or cool skin, shortness of
breath, dizziness or lightheadedness, and apprehensive or fearful feelings.
✔✔What care should you give to a conscious adult who is choking and cannot cough,
speak, or breathe? - ✔✔Abdominal back thrusts and back blows
✔✔What are the signs of a heart attack? - ✔✔Trouble breathing, chest pain, loss of
consciousness, discomfort, and nausea
✔✔Why is early CPR an important link in the cardiac chain of survival? - ✔✔It helps
circulate blood that contains oxygen to the vital organs until an AED is ready to use or
emergency medical personnel arrives.