Starguard Test Review Exam Questions Correct Solutions New Update (Verified A+ Pass)
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Starguard Test Review Exam Questions Correct Solutions New Update (Verified A+ Pass)
Drowning can happen --- and --- to ---- at --- time - Answers - quickly and silently to anyone at anytime
What does RWI stand for - Answers - recreational water illness
Swimmers should or should not be all...
Starguard Test Review Exam Questions
Correct Solutions New Update (Verified
A+ Pass)
Drowning can happen --- and --- to ---- at --- time - Answers -✔✔ quickly and silently to
anyone at anytime
What does RWI stand for - Answers -✔✔ recreational water illness
Swimmers should or should not be allowed to participate in breath holding contests or
swimming underwater - Answers -✔✔ SHOULD NEVER
What will you do the majority of the time lifeguarding - Answers -✔✔ Scanning and
searching the water
What should you always assume about people's blood and body fluids? - Answers -✔✔
They are potentially infectious
When cleaning poop or body fluids what is the ratio of bleach to water - Answers -✔✔ 1
part bleach to 9 parts water
What should you do first thing when you have a break in the skin that comes in contact
with the fluids of another person? - Answers -✔✔ Wash the area with soap and water
What does universal precautions mean - Answers -✔✔ Act as if all body fluids are
infectious
What contains how many germs that can spread quickly through the water? - Answers -
✔✔ Diarrhea contains millions of germs
What can survive up to 11 days in properly maintained pool water? - Answers -✔✔
parasite cryptosporidium
What determines whether water is shallow or not? - Answers -✔✔ a persons height
What are the greatest risk for permanent damage during drowning - Answers -✔✔ the
heart and the brain
What is non-fatal drowning? - Answers -✔✔ When a person experiences a drowning
incident but was resuscitated and did not die
, where can an unresponsive drowning person be found? - Answers -✔✔ floating near
the bottom of the pool, laying on the bottom of the pool, floating near the surface, just
underneath the surface
What are important for an unresponsive and drowning person to minimize or prevent
brain damage - Answers -✔✔ rescue breaths
What is the most important predictor of survival? - Answers -✔✔ The length of time a
person is submerged
How many initial rescue breaths should you give upon contact with an unresponsive
drowning person - Answers -✔✔ 5
what takes away from your professional image - Answers -✔✔ twirling your whistle
what is the e-stop - Answers -✔✔ a button or switch that shuts down the wave action or
water flow
What can a drowning person do when they try to breathe? - Answers -✔✔ They can
swallow large amounts of water
What is the next critical link in the survival chain of an unresponsive drowning person
after early recognition - Answers -✔✔ early rescue breathing
What is scanning - Answers -✔✔ searching the water in a systematic way
What is the most important thing when calling 9-1-1 - Answers -✔✔ listen carefully to
the disbatcher
What does a front rescue consist of - Answers -✔✔ pushing the rescue tube firmly into
the person's chest
What is the method that has the lowest risk of back, leg, or foot injury? - Answers -✔✔
compact jump entry
what are the symptons of altered mental status - Answers -✔✔ confusion, slowed
thinking, loss of balance, impared vision
what are the two kinds of spinal and where can they happen? - Answers -✔✔ Active
and passive spinals can happen on land or in the water
What is malfunction of the heart's electrical system - Answers -✔✔ sudden cardiac
arrest or SCA
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