Lifeguard IQ Test

Name one characteristic of the environment that can make scanning more difficult.

To give high-quality CPR, you should strive for a compression fraction of at least:

How do lifeguards avoid missing any part of the search area when conducting a deep-water line search?

A practice at youth camps with pools or waterfronts in which two campers of similar swimming ability are paired together in a specific swimming area.

To care for a patient in shock, do all but which of the following:

An person has attempted suicide. Which of the following is your priority as the attending lifeguard?

A lifeguard’s primary responsibility includes:

The number of life jacket/PFD types is

Which of the following is not a principle of negligence?

Bystanders who observe a victim struggling in deep water should:

The main piece of rescue equipment for a swimming pool lifeguard is a

Ventricular fibrillation is best described as

An alert and oriented adult who hit his head while diving into shallow water has refused first aid care. The lifeguard, feeling the injury might be severe, ignores the refusal and begins touching the person’s head to determine whether the skull is intact. The lifeguard could be charged with:

To avoid causing additional injury, a suspected spinal injury victim in a winding river should be:

The movement of a lifeguard’s head from side to side while watching the water is called:

The parent of a swimmer on a high school swim team is present as a lifeguard gives first aid to another member of the team. The parent overhears the adolescent confess to the lifeguard that he has a sexually transmitted disease (STD). The release of this information is known as:

At beaches where it is used, the purple flag is a warning about dangerous marine life in the area.

While assisting in the first aid care of a panicky patient, you observe the head lifeguard give the patient an anxiety medication prescribed to the head lifeguard. You are directed not to document this. If you choose to follow this directive from the head lifeguard, you will be:

When assessing a patient who you suspect has had a stroke, which of the following do you assess first?

Status epilecpticus, a true medical emergency, occurs when a seizure lasts longer than _____ minutes without showing signs of slowing down.

How should a swimmer enter murky water?

Please arrange in the proper order the 5 “links” in the out-of-hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival.

B NICE and CBRNE are acronyms for the main types of:

Bleeding that spurts is:

How often should CPR be paused to check for breathing and pulse?

Ripples on the surface of murky water can indicate:

The pulse of an unconscious adult or child is usually checked at the:

When entering the water from an elevated station at a wave pool:

Respiratory impairment caused by submersion in liquid is the definition of

Hyperventilation and excessive underwater swimming can cause:

What is the purpose of taking a sighting?

A standing wave that oscillates in a lake as a result of seismic or atmospheric disturbances creating huge fluctuations of water levels in just moments is a:

The ratio of compressions to ventilations for one-rescuer CPR is:

Backboarding in which attraction requires lifting the patient to slide the backboard underneath?

What hazard can be created by water rushing over a low-head dam?

A victim caught in a rip current should:

A turbulent layer of water that rushes onto the beach after an incoming wave has broken is called:

The chemical in pool water effective for disinfection is:

A measure of the quantity of free hydrogen and hydroxyl ions in a sample of water used to determine its relative acidity/alkalinity.

The most important aspect of lifeguard rotation:

DPD is:

The pH of swimming pool water is tested using:

A pool rule designed to keep people from slipping on the deck.

Before allowing a child to swim in deep water or use the diving boards for the first time at a public pool, the lifeguard should:

Put the steps for a water emergency in proper order.

When approaching the victim in a crowded swimming pool, the lifeguard should:

While making a submerged victim rescue in a 16-foot deep diving well, you find you must release the rescue tube strap in order to reach the victim. Upon surfacing with the unconscious victim, you discover that the rescue tube has floated several feet away toward the center of the pool. You should:

Which of the following entries should be used with a rescue tube from an elevated lifeguard station?

The “I” in RID factor stands for:

A type of lifeguard surveillance that divides a swimming area into sections and assigns one lifeguard per section.

What type of lifeguard station is used to patrol the outer edge of a swimming area?

A strong, fast-moving channel of water that flows from near shore to offshore beyond breaking waves.

Safety checks at a waterfront involve all but which of the following:

For an accidental fecal release (AFR) in a swimming pool, which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following animals found dead in a swimming pool can pose significant health risks for swimmers and pool employees that remove the animal?

Vomit in a swimming pool should be handled the same way as:

When swimming to an active victim, which of the following strokes is recommended as an approach stroke?

Complete the number for the Poison Control Center Hotline for the United States: 1-800-222-1_ _ _

For rides without equipment, the correct sliding position is:

Generally, a water slide only needs a lifeguard posted at the bottom of the slide to help people exit the slide.

Lifeguards watching the wave pool should rotate:

The following are important water safety tips that lifeguards should share with the public.

Which age group has the highest drowning rate?

What is a heaving jug?

The majority of severe bleeding is stopped by direct pressure.

OPQRST reminds the first aid provider to ask about the characteristics of:

The most current protocol for sucking chest wounds calls for an occlusive dressing.

A 30-year-old male diver strikes his head on the 5-meter platform and falls into the water. The responding lifeguard activates the emergency action plan and retrieves the submerged victim using a technique to immobilize the head. The patient is unresponsive and not breathing. The lifeguard signals the office to call EMS and request the backboard. The lifeguard is still holding the victim’s head, so he cannot check for a pulse. Another lifeguard responds with a backboard. A bulkhead prevents access to shallow water. How should these lifeguards proceed?

High-quality CPR consists of adequate compression rate (100 - 120 cpm), adequate compression depth (2 inches or 5 cm), minimal interruptions of CPR, adequate but not excessive ventilations, and:

The primary piece of rescue equipment used by ocean lifeguards.

When backboarding a patient in the water, secure the head first with immobilizers and then secure the body with straps.

If a patient steps on a stingray, sea urchin, or spiny fish and receives a puncture wound, ease pain and deactivate the venom by:

If pediatric pads are available with an AED, they should be used for patients that are less than ____ years old or that weight less than _____ pounds.

When 2 lifeguards perform CPR together on an infant or a child, they should gives sets of:

A man has collapsed in the park adjacent to the municipal pool. Lifeguards respond to find a 42-year old male that appears conscious but disoriented. His clothing is wet with sweat but his skin is red, hot, and dry. He appears to have vomited recently. He refuses water. The lifeguards suspect the patient is suffering from: