Ellis and Associates Lifeguard Training Test Questions
With 100% Verified Solutions
*Confidence - Maintain an adequate level of personal lifeguarding knowledge and skills,
enhanced through appropriate initial and in-service training at your specific facility.
Displaying a professional, enthusiastic image gives others confidence in your abilities.
*Alertness - Remain in a constant states of readiness.
*Responsiveness - React in the appropriate manner when faced with an emergency.
*Empathy - Try to understand your guests' needs, wants, and emotions by placing
yourself in their position.
D.E.A.L. with difficult situations
*Define the problem - Get a clear understanding of the problem.
Evaluate your options - Examine alternatives, considering the consequences now and in
the future.
*Act now - Take action, based on the information you have acquired.
*Look at outcomes - Try to solve the problem to your and the guest's satisfaction. To
avoid repeating similar circumstances, see if there is an opportunity for coworkers to
learn from this situation.
Rescue breaths for adults
1 breath every 5 seconds. Cycle is 2 minutes = 24 breaths.
Rescue breaths for children or infants
1 breath every 3 seconds. Cycle is 2 minutes = 40 breaths.
FBAO
Foreign Body Airway Obstruction
FBAO on Responsive Adult or Child
Perform the Heimlich maneuver:
1. Place fist against guest's abdomen, with your thumb just above the guest's navel.
2. Grasp fist with other hand and press into abdomen using quick inward and upward
thrusts.
3. Continue until object is removed or guest becomes unconscious.
FBAO on Responsive Infant
, DO NOT PERFORM HEIMLICH ON INFANTS UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE.
1. Support head and neck, lay infant face down on your forearm and lower arm to leg.
2. Administer five firm back blows between shoulder blades with heel of hand.
3. With continued support, roll baby face up.
4. Firmly give five chest thrusts on infant's sternum, between nipple line.
5. Repeat steps until object is removed or infant goes unconscious.
FBAO on Unresponsive Adult, Child, or Infant
1. 30 chest compressions
2. Open airway and check for foreign object. If visible use finger sweep on adult and
child, or pluck object for infant to remove.
3. If invisible, give two breaths
4. Continue chest compressions and breaths until airway is cleared or EMS arrives.
Ventricular fibrillation (V-fib)
Electrical impulses become chaotic and the heart's pump has an incorrect rhythum
Ventricular tachycardia (V-tach)
Heart beats too quickly to pump blood effectively
CPR
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
AED
Automated external defibrillator
Assessing the Situation
Assess the scene safety first and take proper BSI precautions.
1. Check responsiveness.
2. If guest does not respond, activate EAP to retrieve an AED.
3. If guest is breathing and no spinal injury is suspected, roll into recovery position.
4. If guest is not breathing, check pulse for 10 seconds.
5. If there is a pulse but no breathing, open airway and provide rescue breathing for two
minutes, then reassess.
6. If no pulse and no breathing, begin CPR. Reassess every two minutes.
7. Apply AED if available.
8. Continue care until EMS arrives.
Adult, One Rescuer CPR
With 100% Verified Solutions
*Confidence - Maintain an adequate level of personal lifeguarding knowledge and skills,
enhanced through appropriate initial and in-service training at your specific facility.
Displaying a professional, enthusiastic image gives others confidence in your abilities.
*Alertness - Remain in a constant states of readiness.
*Responsiveness - React in the appropriate manner when faced with an emergency.
*Empathy - Try to understand your guests' needs, wants, and emotions by placing
yourself in their position.
D.E.A.L. with difficult situations
*Define the problem - Get a clear understanding of the problem.
Evaluate your options - Examine alternatives, considering the consequences now and in
the future.
*Act now - Take action, based on the information you have acquired.
*Look at outcomes - Try to solve the problem to your and the guest's satisfaction. To
avoid repeating similar circumstances, see if there is an opportunity for coworkers to
learn from this situation.
Rescue breaths for adults
1 breath every 5 seconds. Cycle is 2 minutes = 24 breaths.
Rescue breaths for children or infants
1 breath every 3 seconds. Cycle is 2 minutes = 40 breaths.
FBAO
Foreign Body Airway Obstruction
FBAO on Responsive Adult or Child
Perform the Heimlich maneuver:
1. Place fist against guest's abdomen, with your thumb just above the guest's navel.
2. Grasp fist with other hand and press into abdomen using quick inward and upward
thrusts.
3. Continue until object is removed or guest becomes unconscious.
FBAO on Responsive Infant
, DO NOT PERFORM HEIMLICH ON INFANTS UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE.
1. Support head and neck, lay infant face down on your forearm and lower arm to leg.
2. Administer five firm back blows between shoulder blades with heel of hand.
3. With continued support, roll baby face up.
4. Firmly give five chest thrusts on infant's sternum, between nipple line.
5. Repeat steps until object is removed or infant goes unconscious.
FBAO on Unresponsive Adult, Child, or Infant
1. 30 chest compressions
2. Open airway and check for foreign object. If visible use finger sweep on adult and
child, or pluck object for infant to remove.
3. If invisible, give two breaths
4. Continue chest compressions and breaths until airway is cleared or EMS arrives.
Ventricular fibrillation (V-fib)
Electrical impulses become chaotic and the heart's pump has an incorrect rhythum
Ventricular tachycardia (V-tach)
Heart beats too quickly to pump blood effectively
CPR
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
AED
Automated external defibrillator
Assessing the Situation
Assess the scene safety first and take proper BSI precautions.
1. Check responsiveness.
2. If guest does not respond, activate EAP to retrieve an AED.
3. If guest is breathing and no spinal injury is suspected, roll into recovery position.
4. If guest is not breathing, check pulse for 10 seconds.
5. If there is a pulse but no breathing, open airway and provide rescue breathing for two
minutes, then reassess.
6. If no pulse and no breathing, begin CPR. Reassess every two minutes.
7. Apply AED if available.
8. Continue care until EMS arrives.
Adult, One Rescuer CPR
