I'm taking this class it's the last time before the new regulations starting in January 2012. It's so primitive it's ridiculous. You can bet NASA pool has technology decades beyond this. I'm disgusted with the equipment. No matter how many "updates" they do it's still poorly designed especially backboards. The average person has less than 20 seconds before they start drowning. You have to get them out and to surface. If they aren't breathing theycome right out of the pool,and this sinstructional
@FeatheryBird But if you have witnessed it to be a possible spinal injury you at least have to immobilize them on the board in a basic manner. Most of the time it is quicker to bring someone with a suspected spinal injury to a shallow part of the pool and then board them. If there is no spinal injury then you can remove the person at the nearest wall.
Interesting use of rescue tubes. It's complicated, and takes too long though - if you include the time it takes to do up the straps (which they helpfully cut out in the video), it looks to be about 4 minutes from contact to assessment. With a competent second guard we can hit under 2 minutes (although that is in a pool with a flush-to-water deck). Bear in mind that a 2 minute difference in time-to-CPR means a 20% decrease in survival probability.
my facilitly only uses squeeze play if they are out of the water or the water is lower than their waist...other than that we use a vice grip for spinals...anyways good video
I had heard that lifeguards had either incorrectly sized them or caused more damage placing them on a victim, so it was discontinued. it may be up to the individual facility to train their staff to do so, but i wouldn't want to go beyond the level of my training and increase liability. On many occasions EMS may arrive during back-boarding and place a c collar on. I hoe that answers your question.
I'm taking this class it's the last time before the new regulations starting in January 2012. It's so primitive it's ridiculous. You can bet NASA pool has technology decades beyond this. I'm disgusted with the equipment. No matter how many "updates" they do it's still poorly designed especially backboards. The average person has less than 20 seconds before they start drowning. You have to get them out and to surface. If they aren't breathing theycome right out of the pool,and this sinstructional
FeatheryBird 2 months ago
@FeatheryBird But if you have witnessed it to be a possible spinal injury you at least have to immobilize them on the board in a basic manner. Most of the time it is quicker to bring someone with a suspected spinal injury to a shallow part of the pool and then board them. If there is no spinal injury then you can remove the person at the nearest wall.
AFroese 2 weeks ago
Is this a joke where is this USA
EIRExPETER 2 months ago
is this a joke?
GlambertHumanoid 2 months ago
Interesting use of rescue tubes. It's complicated, and takes too long though - if you include the time it takes to do up the straps (which they helpfully cut out in the video), it looks to be about 4 minutes from contact to assessment. With a competent second guard we can hit under 2 minutes (although that is in a pool with a flush-to-water deck). Bear in mind that a 2 minute difference in time-to-CPR means a 20% decrease in survival probability.
tgdemon228 2 months ago
thanks!! this really helped!!
matthewwechter1 3 months ago
my facilitly only uses squeeze play if they are out of the water or the water is lower than their waist...other than that we use a vice grip for spinals...anyways good video
juggalo1133 5 months ago
great 1 piece swimsuits
DROLL30 6 months ago
I had heard that lifeguards had either incorrectly sized them or caused more damage placing them on a victim, so it was discontinued. it may be up to the individual facility to train their staff to do so, but i wouldn't want to go beyond the level of my training and increase liability. On many occasions EMS may arrive during back-boarding and place a c collar on. I hoe that answers your question.
av34769 8 months ago
why dont you use collars when immobilizing spinal injuries??!!
bane2106 8 months ago
@bane2106 a collar will only immobilize the head and neck
the board immobilized the entire spine
Strykercom1 7 months ago
Thanks!. I needed to brush up on this before inservice.
MsBabs90 8 months ago
i had to do that, but with no safety tubes..soo much harder.
JustBlinkIt 10 months ago
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SilvZ18 10 months ago
Shallow end of the pool? rope in the way? Remove it. Think outside the box? Yes
MultiNicholson 10 months ago
lol...its jeff from the training videos
MASKtheband 1 year ago
LOL i remember watching this video in my training. No way!
unclepoepoe 1 year ago
This is so weird. We do it completely different. And we also don't use are tubes except to support the victim.
DearlyDemisedKen 1 year ago
@DearlyDemisedKen yeah, the backboards we used cant really float a person.
unclepoepoe 1 year ago