PAC Lifeguard Demonstration

The Patterson Aquatic Center did a mock scenario with our new drowning dummy "Dunkin," for the general public, and involved the cooperation of lifeguards, fire department, and EMS personal to remove and provide care for "Dunkin," who dove and hit his head in the shallow end of the pool.

A big thanks to "Barbosa Video" for taping and producing the video!!!

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• Lifeguard
• Drowning
• Patterson
• Patterson Aquatic Center
• EMS
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• Pool
• Injury

[IndianaPentecostal23]

@ace121791 Now, don't be quick to judge: I'm an Ellis, StarGuard and Red Cross instructor and while different agencies/staff teaching certain ways of doing things you have to look at the situation: In the case of a spinal it is very possible that a person could hit their head on the bottom and still be conscious AND THEN fall unconscious from their injuries or just traumatic distress. One thing I have learned through the years is to really have a full understanding before you judge..

[IndianaPentecostal23]

Respond to this video... ...while EMT training and lifeguard training may conflict or disagree on certain topics it is very important that lifeguards follow their standard of care or else they could be charged with negligence and really suffer legally and mental consequences in the future.

Jer (LGI)

[IndianaPentecostal23]

@PatriotMuscle Coming from an instructor: The standard of care for lifeguards in regards to spinals vs unconscious, lifeguard candidates are taught to assume it's a spinal injury ONLY if you see it happen or you have reason to believe it happened because in aquatics, while it is possible a guest in distress can be face down and conscious from a spinal it is deemed less likely than if the victim was to be unconsious.

[soybean725]

I have actually worked at this pool and the reason that they stopped CPR is because they got an AED, if you pay more attention to the video. If an AED is present, you automatically stop CPR and set up and use the AED. Backboarding for a spinal is taught during training so these lifeguards are doing what they know and how they were trained.

[PatriotMuscle]

I'm an EMT. Spinal immobilization is always performed (in training, at least) with drowning victims because a spinal injury could have been the cause of the drowning. And until determined otherwise, it is best to protect the spine from further injury.

[ace121791]

why are the doing spinal if he he needs cpr ? this has to be fail ass red cross training.

and why the hell would you stop cpr ? would never let my kids go swimming with them on stand

[ToledoBuffVids]

Great job.

[alekseys123]

all this for a dummie wow