American Red Cross: Lifeguarding Exam Test with Complete Solutions- 2024

American Red Cross: Lifeguarding Exam Test with Complete Solutions- 2024 What will American Red Cross Lifeguarding class teach you? (pg. 2) - ️️ - Teach you skills needed to prevent and respond to aquatic emergencies. Teach land and water rescue skills plus first aid and CPR Primary Responsibilities of Lifeguards (pg. 2) - ️️ - Monitor activities in and near water, prevent injuries by minimalizing hazardous situations, enforce facility rules, recognize and respond quickly, administering first aid and CPR, work as a team with other facility employees Secondary Responsibilities of Lifeguards (pg. 2-3) - ️️ - test pool water chemistry, assisting patrons, cleaning/maintenance of pool area, completing records and reports (pg. 4) Professional Lifeguards SHOULD NOT - ️️ - Leave your posted station or area while on duty, use mobile phones or other types of communication while on duty, slouch in chair, participate in conversation with other patrons or lifeguard staff, eat on stand, use alcohol or drugs (any that could negatively impact your alertness) F.I.N.D (pg. 6) - ️️ - F=Figure out the problem I= Identify possible solutions N= Name the pros and cons for each solution. D= Decide which solution is best, then act on it EAP (pg. 6) - ️️ - Emergency Action Plan Duty to Act (pg. 6) - ️️ - While on the job, you have legal responsibility to act in an emergency Negligence (pg. 6) - ️️ - When a person receiving emergency care has additional harm because lifeguards failed to follow the standard of care Consent (pg. 6) - ️️ - All people giving medical care MUST obtain consent before helping an individual Rescue Tube (pg. 13) - ️️ - 45-54 inch vinyl, foam-filled tube with an attached tow line and shoulder strap capable of keeping victims afloat Resuscitation Masks (pg. 13) - ️️ - Transparent, flexible device that creates a tight seal over the victims mouth and nose to allow you to breathe air into a victim without making mouth-to-mouth contact. Gloves (pg. 13) - ️️ - Disposable (single-use) gloves are used to protect employees that may be exposed to blood or other bodily fluids. Backboards (pg. 13) - ️️ - Standard piece of equipment used at aquatics facilities to remove victims from water when they are unable to exit the water on their own. Backboards are also used during head, neck, or back injuries PPE (pg. 14) - ️️ - Personal Protective Equipment: specialized clothing, equipment, and supplies used to prevent you from coming into direct contact with a victims body fluids BVM (pg. 14) - ️️ - Bag-Valve-Mask Resuscitator: handheld device attached to a resuscitation mask used to ventilate a victim in respiratory arrest when performing CPR. BVM REQUIRES TWO RESCUERS. Oxygen Cylinder and Delivery Device (pg. 14) - ️️ - Breathing device used to administer emergency oxygen to a victim experiencing breathing or cardiac emergency AED (pg. 14) - ️️ - Automated External Defibrillators: portable electronic device that analyzes a victims heart rhythm and delivers electrical shock to re-establich proper rhythm. RWI (pg. 24) - ️️ - Recreational Water Illness: earaches, rashes, diarrhea that can cause illness in aquatics facility Formed Stool Emergency (pg. 24) - ️️ - 1. Continue Operation of Filtration System 2. pH must be below 7.5 3. Free chlorine level to AT LEAST 2 ppm 4. Maintain those levels 25 minutes before re-opening pool Diarrheal Discharge Emergency (pg. 24) - ️️ - 1. Continue operation of circulation system 2. pH must be below 7.5 3. Free chlorine level to AT