Lifeguards

Okay, so for my lifeguard final examination test, i have to sit up in the lifeguard chair and recognize vicitms drowning. if they are passive, active, or distressed. my question is, when you go to save a passive victim, how would you know if they are just a regular passive submerged vicitm, or a passive victim with a spinal injury. Considering you have to perfrom different tasks on each, i need to know what kind of passive victim they are.

Well, if in my test someone submerges under the water, how am i supposed to know in my test if they have a spinal injury or not.

thanks.

and if anyone else has taken the American Red Cross lifeguarding class, is the final examination really hard. Thanks.

Technically, while watching the pool, you should have an idea of what happened to them, which would tell you whether or not they had a spinal injury or not. The final examination wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it was going to be when I took it, but they do make you do a passive victim with spinal injury because they want to make sure you know how to do it.

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1. messsss Says:
   January 28th, 2010 at 5:35 pm

   Technically, while watching the pool, you should have an idea of what happened to them, which would tell you whether or not they had a spinal injury or not. The final examination wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it was going to be when I took it, but they do make you do a passive victim with spinal injury because they want to make sure you know how to do it.
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