Emergency Medicine RED CROSS LIFEGUARDING ONLINE ANSWERS_ Updated Summer 2022/
1. To ensure high-quality CPR and high-quality chest
compressions, you should: Expose the victim's chest to ensure
proper hand placement and full chest recoil.
2. Which of the following would you identify as the
universal sign that a conscious person is choking?:
Clutching the throat
3. All of the following are components of scene size-up
EXCEPT:: Checking for responsiveness.
4. Your initial impression reveals severe life-threatening
bleeding in an adult victim who appears to be unresponsive.
Your next step should be:: Control the bleeding with any
available resources.
5. Which of the following is most essential to use when giving
ventilations to protect you and the victim from disease
transmission?: Resuscitation masks
6. You and another lifeguard are preparing for CPR on an adult
who collapsed in the locker room. You determine that there is