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STARGUARD WRITTEN TEST EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
WHEN SHOULD you APPPLY backboard CHEST STRAP during a spinal back
boarding? - ANS ✓FIRST; Right when patient is on backboard
5 components of StarGuard rick management model? - ANS ✓1) Prevention
2)Surveillance
3.)Response and Rescue
4.)Emergency Care
5.)Work Place Expectations
Observing Universal Precautions means to treat all blood and bodily fluid
as infectious, even if you think they do not look infectious. TRUE/FALSE? -
ANS ✓True
EAP? - ANS ✓Emergency Action Plan
Should an EAP use standard language copied out of a lifeguard textbook?
YES/NO? - ANS ✓...
Guest having SEIZURE IN WATER? What do you do? - ANS ✓Head out of water
to breathe
BEST way to first try to get a STRUGGLING SWIMMER to RELEASE you if she
has GRABBED YOU? - ANS ✓Submerge them with you and they'll let go
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Benefit of the LEG-WRAP rescue? - ANS ✓No upper body contact
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE in managing the rescue of an UNRESPONSIVE
DROWNING VICTIM? - ANS ✓Providing Artificial Recusation (oxygen) with Seal-
EZ
AGANOL BREATHING? - ANS ✓Moving tounge and lips,no effective breaths
Is AGANOL BREATHING effective? - ANS ✓No real Breathing
PRIMARY GOAL of IN-SERVICE Training? - ANS ✓Be a competent and confident
lifeguard
When might an ANIMAL be ALLOWED on pool deck? - ANS ✓Provided
Assistance for patron
Threat from child predators high at aquatic facilities. WHY? - ANS ✓...
MOST IMPORTANT GOAL of extricating an UNRESPONSIVE drowning victim
FROM the WATER? - ANS ✓Provide oxygen with AR
When making rescue in the river SHOULD YOU ENTER UPSTREAM and LET
THE CURRENT MOVE YOU TO THE PERSON? or ENTER DOWNTREAM and
LET THE CURRENT MOVE THE PERSON TO YOU? - ANS ✓ENTER UPSTREAM
and LET THE CURRENT MOVE YOU TO THE PERSON
How do you stop the waves or current of an attraction? - ANS ✓Emergency
Stop
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STARGUARD WRITTEN TEST EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
WHEN SHOULD you APPPLY backboard CHEST STRAP during a spinal back
boarding? - ANS ✓FIRST; Right when patient is on backboard
5 components of StarGuard rick management model? - ANS ✓1) Prevention
2)Surveillance
3.)Response and Rescue
4.)Emergency Care
5.)Work Place Expectations
Observing Universal Precautions means to treat all blood and bodily fluid
as infectious, even if you think they do not look infectious. TRUE/FALSE? -
ANS ✓True
EAP? - ANS ✓Emergency Action Plan
Should an EAP use standard language copied out of a lifeguard textbook?
YES/NO? - ANS ✓...
Guest having SEIZURE IN WATER? What do you do? - ANS ✓Head out of water
to breathe
BEST way to first try to get a STRUGGLING SWIMMER to RELEASE you if she
has GRABBED YOU? - ANS ✓Submerge them with you and they'll let go
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Benefit of the LEG-WRAP rescue? - ANS ✓No upper body contact
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE in managing the rescue of an UNRESPONSIVE
DROWNING VICTIM? - ANS ✓Providing Artificial Recusation (oxygen) with Seal-
EZ
AGANOL BREATHING? - ANS ✓Moving tounge and lips,no effective breaths
Is AGANOL BREATHING effective? - ANS ✓No real Breathing
PRIMARY GOAL of IN-SERVICE Training? - ANS ✓Be a competent and confident
lifeguard
When might an ANIMAL be ALLOWED on pool deck? - ANS ✓Provided
Assistance for patron
Threat from child predators high at aquatic facilities. WHY? - ANS ✓...
MOST IMPORTANT GOAL of extricating an UNRESPONSIVE drowning victim
FROM the WATER? - ANS ✓Provide oxygen with AR
When making rescue in the river SHOULD YOU ENTER UPSTREAM and LET
THE CURRENT MOVE YOU TO THE PERSON? or ENTER DOWNTREAM and
LET THE CURRENT MOVE THE PERSON TO YOU? - ANS ✓ENTER UPSTREAM
and LET THE CURRENT MOVE YOU TO THE PERSON
How do you stop the waves or current of an attraction? - ANS ✓Emergency
Stop
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