RED CROSS LIFEGUARD TRAINING MODULE 11
EMERGENCY CARE FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
As a rescuer trained at the professional level, your major responsibilities are to:
(4 items)
1.) ensure safety for yourself and others in the area,
2.) identify any immediate threats to the person's life,
3.) ensure that EMS has been called (as needed)
4.) provide care consistent with your level of training.
2.)
You will need to take steps to protect yourself and others from infectious
disease:
(List three concepts for protecting yourself and others.)
1.) Be knowledgeable about how pathogens are spread.
2.) Take standard precautions.
3.) Follow your employer's infection control policies and procedures
2.)
What are standard "precautions"?
Important safety measures to protect yourself from pathogens.
Name two important precautions—
1.) Handwashing
2.) The use of personal protective equipment (PPE), particularly latex-free
disposable gloves.
2.)
What is the most important way to protect yourself and others from infection?
Properly washing your hands.
Do you need to wash your hands after giving care even if you wore gloves?
Yes
Which PPE will you use most often and should always have present in your hip
pack?
, Latex-free disposable gloves and a resuscitation mask,
What are the three important times for wearing latex free gloves?
1.) When providing care when there is a possibility of contacting blood or other
fluids.
2.) When you have a cut or break in your own skin. (Cover all cuts before putting
gloves on.)
3.) When you handle items which have come in contact with blood or body fluids.
True or false, you should not delay potentially life-saving care to put on gloves.
True
To help prevent the spread of pathogens, you should wash your hands for at
least______ seconds.
20
As a rescuer trained at the professional level, you have four major
responsibilities in a medical emergency: (Identify the four.)
1.) Ensuring safety for yourself and others in the area
2.) Identifying any immediate threats to life
3.) Ensuring that emergency medical services (EMS) has been called if needed
4.) Providing care consistent with your level of training until EMS professionals
arrive and take over
2.)
What are the four steps you take in a medical emergency?
Step One: Activate the EAP.
Step Two: Perform a rapid assessment:
Step Three: Perform a secondary assessment when the person's condition allows:
Step Four: Report, advise and release.
What actions are taken when your "perform a rapid assessment":
1.) For a water emergency, begin the assessment in the water and finish it on land.
a.) Form your initial impression as you move the person to the exit point.
b.) Extricate the person from the water and then continue with assessment.
2.) Summon EMS for any life-threatening conditions.
3.) For a person who is not breathing as a result of drowning, give two ventilations
before beginning care.
4.) Provide care for the conditions found.
EMERGENCY CARE FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
As a rescuer trained at the professional level, your major responsibilities are to:
(4 items)
1.) ensure safety for yourself and others in the area,
2.) identify any immediate threats to the person's life,
3.) ensure that EMS has been called (as needed)
4.) provide care consistent with your level of training.
2.)
You will need to take steps to protect yourself and others from infectious
disease:
(List three concepts for protecting yourself and others.)
1.) Be knowledgeable about how pathogens are spread.
2.) Take standard precautions.
3.) Follow your employer's infection control policies and procedures
2.)
What are standard "precautions"?
Important safety measures to protect yourself from pathogens.
Name two important precautions—
1.) Handwashing
2.) The use of personal protective equipment (PPE), particularly latex-free
disposable gloves.
2.)
What is the most important way to protect yourself and others from infection?
Properly washing your hands.
Do you need to wash your hands after giving care even if you wore gloves?
Yes
Which PPE will you use most often and should always have present in your hip
pack?
, Latex-free disposable gloves and a resuscitation mask,
What are the three important times for wearing latex free gloves?
1.) When providing care when there is a possibility of contacting blood or other
fluids.
2.) When you have a cut or break in your own skin. (Cover all cuts before putting
gloves on.)
3.) When you handle items which have come in contact with blood or body fluids.
True or false, you should not delay potentially life-saving care to put on gloves.
True
To help prevent the spread of pathogens, you should wash your hands for at
least______ seconds.
20
As a rescuer trained at the professional level, you have four major
responsibilities in a medical emergency: (Identify the four.)
1.) Ensuring safety for yourself and others in the area
2.) Identifying any immediate threats to life
3.) Ensuring that emergency medical services (EMS) has been called if needed
4.) Providing care consistent with your level of training until EMS professionals
arrive and take over
2.)
What are the four steps you take in a medical emergency?
Step One: Activate the EAP.
Step Two: Perform a rapid assessment:
Step Three: Perform a secondary assessment when the person's condition allows:
Step Four: Report, advise and release.
What actions are taken when your "perform a rapid assessment":
1.) For a water emergency, begin the assessment in the water and finish it on land.
a.) Form your initial impression as you move the person to the exit point.
b.) Extricate the person from the water and then continue with assessment.
2.) Summon EMS for any life-threatening conditions.
3.) For a person who is not breathing as a result of drowning, give two ventilations
before beginning care.
4.) Provide care for the conditions found.
