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STARGUARD QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSRID - Answers- Recognition, Intrusion, Distraction
5 Components of the Starboard Risk Management - Answers- Prevention Strategy,
Workplace Expectations, Emergency Care, Respond and Rescue, Surveillance
RWI - Answers- Recreational Water Illness
STAAR - Answers- Scan, Target, Assess, Alert, Rescue
Distress - Answers- - Head above water
- Head back and body low in water
- Arms extended and moving up and down
- Minimal use of legs and little movement from kick
Drowning - Answers- - Head below water
- Distress can happen under water too if victim
Best Way to Stop Wave Pool - Answers- E-Stop button
Duty To Act - Answers- If you are a lifeguard expected to give emergency medical care,
including CPR but if you are off duty than you are a good samaritan
Benefits of Leg Wrap Rescue - Answers- - No body to body contact
- If the person is grabbing your leg you can easily get away by pushing them away with
leg strength
- Makes your hands free so you can use the floatation tube to hold you and the patron
up
Best Way To Make a Patron Let Go of You - Answers- Suck: Suck in a breath
Tuck: Tuck your chin
Duck: Duck under and push the tube under the patron and float away
How To Begin a Rescue for Seizure - Answers- - Hold their head up above water so
their won't be obstructed
- If you can treat like rear rescue
In-Line Stabilization - Answers- Vise Grip: Shallow or deep water and victim is face up
Vise Grip Rollover: The person is face down and suspected paralysis
Ease-Up to Vise Grip: The person is submerged and has a suspected spinal injury
Change-Up Vise Grip: Switch arms to backboard
3-D Triage Scanning - Answers- 1. Look for anything out of the ordinary on bottom and
under surface
2.Scan looking for other distress or drowning signs
, 3. Look for behavior situations that may require rule reinforcement
Appropriate Zone Sizes - Answers- 10 second to scan whole area and 20 to get to the
farthest point
Hyperthermia - Answers- Symptoms:
- Pale cold skin
- Incontrolable shivering
- Difficulty Speaking
- Loss of coordination
- Altered Mental Status
-Slow heartbeat
What to do:
- Get to warmer place
- Remove wet or restricting clothes with dry ones
- Cover with warm blankets
- Cover head and neck to retain body heat
- Give anything to eat or drink to expand energy
Allergic Reaction - Answers- What to do:
- Ask if they have an Epi Pen
- Call EMS
Help them of they need help administering it
Heart Attack - Answers- What to do:
- Call EMS
- Get person in comfortable position
- Loosen clothing
- Get AED
- Ask what happened from people around and what medication the person is taking
Broken Bone - Answers- What to do:
- If deformed, blue, swollen or extremely painful call EMS
- Splint if you can
- Put cold packs on
Adult Compression Rate - Answers- 30 Compressions: 2 Breaths // 2 hands for CPR
Child Compression Rate - Answers- 30 Compressions: 2 Breaths // 1 hand for CPR
Infant Compression Rate - Answers- 30 Compressions: 2 Breaths // 2 middle fingers for
CPR
Adult Breaths - Answers- 1 breath: 5 seconds
Child Breaths - Answers- 1 breath: 3 seconds
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