LSA Bronze Star Practice Questions

1 question per topic.  Check answers in candidate manual. (Page numbers in brackets.)

Pool Safety (20-23)

1. Give 5 examples of different types of swimming pool.
2. What is the role of a lifeguard?
3. In which types of pool might there be no lifeguard?
4. Give 5 safety signs you may see in a swimming pool.
5. Give 5 activities usually forbidden in swimming pool rules.
6. How can you help keep young children safe at the pool? Give 3 answers.

Pool Hazards (19)

1. What is a hazard?
2. What is a risk?
3. What is a control method?
4. In a swimming environment what are the 3 categories we can divide these hazards into?
5. For each category give 6 examples of hazard.
6. Once you have identified a hazard, what should you do to keep swimmers safe?

Cold water Shock (16)

1. Below what water temperature can someone suffer from cold water shock?
2. How likely is this in the UK? In pools/ Open water?
3. How many stages of cold-water shock are there and what are they called? How long does each stage last?
4. For each stage explain what happens to the swimmer’s body.
5. How cold is the body when it is medically hypothermic?
6. What is Post-immersion Heat Loss? What is its more common name? When does it occur?
7. How should you treat a hypothermic swimmer after a long immersion? Why?

Rescue equipment (6-96)

1. List as many rescue aids as you can.
2. What would you use for a weak or injured swimmer?
3. Name 3 different types of rescue you could perform with a torpedo buoy.
4. What is the advantage of a shout and signal rescue? Who could you use it for?
5. What type of casualty would be floating face down?

CPR (110, 121,122, 128, 132)

1. What should you monitor once you have put a casualty in the recovery position?
2. What else should you do to aid the unconscious casualty in the recovery position?
3. How should you treat an unconscious casualty being sick? Why?
4. CPR: when do you start with rescue breaths and when compressions? Why?
5. How many rescue breaths do you give initially?
6. Explain the differences in CPR for adult child and baby
7. What should you do if a choking adult falls unconscious?

First Aid (145, 147, 150-152)

1. How is a fracture likely to be caused?
2. How many types of fracture are there? Explain each.
3. Give 4 signs and symptoms of a fracture. How do you treat a fracture?
4. How do you treat a bruise?
5. What is asthma? How do you treat asthma?
6. What are the signs and symptoms of asthma?
7. If a burn is severe what other medical condition may be present?
8. What is the treatment for this condition?