How can you best protect yourself from possible bloodborne pathogen transmission when providing care?

A 12-year-old child at a swim meet grabs their chest and begins to make wheezing noises. After you obtain consent to provide care, the child’s parent informs you that the child has a history of asthma, but does not have an inhaler nearby. What care should you provide?

You initial impression of a victim is based on

You and another lifeguard find an unresponsive adult on the floor in the locker room. You activate your facility’s EAP, size-up the scene, form an initial impression and perform a primary assessment. You find the victim is not moving or breathing, but has a pulse. You should summon EMS personnel, then

You arrive on the scene where a patron appears to be injured. Before approaching the victim, which of the following will you NOT do as you size-up the scene?

When providing care during an emergency, which of the following should you do first?

As the first rescuer on the scene, you are performing CPR on an adult. When performing chest compressions, how deeply should you compress the chest?

CPR should be performed on which of the following victims?

What is the first step of the Adult Cardiac Chain of Survival? 

You are providing care to a victim suspected of having a heart attack. Which of the following would you do first?

Once you have turned on the automated external defibrillator (AED), you should:

To ensure high-quality CPR and high-quality chest compressions, you should:

You are performing CPR on a victim and an assisting responder arrives. Which of the following is most appropriate for the assisting responder to do first?

Which of the following is the most essential to use when giving ventilations to protect you and the victim from disease transmission?

You are providing care to a facility maintenance worker who has fallen off the top of a ladder. The victim is responsive. Which of the following should you do first?

For which of the following should you summon EMS personnel?

While performing a primary assessment on an unresponsive adult who has been rescued from the water, you find that they have only occasional gasps, no pulse and no severe life-threatening bleeding. Which of the following should you do next?

If there is a risk of the AED pads touching each other, such as with a small child or an infant, you should:

You have sized up the scene, formed an initial impression and determined the scene is safe. When starting the primary assessment, which of the following would you do first?

Which of the following statements about bag-valve-mask resuscitators (BVMs) is most accurate

You are preparing to give ventilations to a 5-year-old child using a resuscitation mask. You should give 1 ventilation about every:

When performing chest compressions during CPR, you should give compressions at a rate of at least how many compressions per minute?

An AED has advised that a shock should be given. Which of the following is appropriate?

You are about to apply AED pads to a victim’s chest when you notice that the victim has several body piercings with jewelry on their chest. Which of the following should you do?

The cycle of chest compressions:ventilations in two-rescuer CPR for an infant is: 

You are using a resuscitation mask to give ventilations to a child. After you position and seal the mask, which of the following should you do next?

You are providing care to a patron who started choking on some food. The victim becomes unresponsive. Which of the following should you do first?

Where should you place your hands when giving chest compressions to an infant during CPR?

When giving abdominal thrusts to an adult who is choking, where should you position your fist?

A person has been injured and is responsive. You should:

Your initial impression reveals severe life-threatening bleeding in an adult victim who appears to be unresponsive. Your next step should be:

An injured patron is responsive and bleeding. After summoning EMS personnel, obtaining consent and putting on disposable gloves, what is your next care step?

A way to remember the questions to ask when taking a brief history is to use the acronym SAMPLE. What does the A in SAMPLE stand for?

What is the first step you should take in caring for a victim with burns?

If a victim is having a seizure in the water:

During a swim meet, the bleachers behind your guard station suddenly collapse. As you check the scene, you notice several people who appear injured. Who should you approach first?

When caring for musculoskeletal injuries, what does RICE stand for?