Phone:
+971 56 111 8870
Address:
Al Barsha Business Centre Building, Al Barsha 1, Dubai, U.A.E.
Prerequisites:
- Candidates must be a minimum age of 16 to enter the course. An authorized instructor may allow a variance to individuals who are age 15 if the instructor has personal knowledge of the candidate’s maturity level or the student will be lifeguarding only in a multi-guard and directly supervised environment.
- Candidates must pass water skills screening to validate swimming ability and endurance at a level that is appropriate for the in-water course work required of the candidate:
- Swim 50 yards, head up to sight for a victim, without stopping
- Swim 50 yards, head up to sight for a victim, with a rescue tube
- Tread water for one (1) minute without use of the hands
- Retrieve weighted object off the bottom (minimum 10 lbs. / 4.5 kg)
Course Outline: Pool/Beach Lifeguard Program
- Breathing and Cardiac Emergencies: CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer
- Primary Survey
- Obtaining Consent and Legal Considerations
- Basic Precautions to prevent disease transmission
- Resuscitation masks: using a Bag Valve Mask (BVM) vs a Pocket Mask
- Resuscitation masks: using a Bag Valve Mask (BVM) vs a Pocket Mask
- General procedures for injury or sudden illness on land
- Moving a victim
- Breathing Emergencies
- Airway Obstruction Chocking conscious/unconscious infant, child, adult
- Rescue Breathing
- Cardiac Emergencies
- Signs and Symptoms of Cardiac Arrest (Heart Attack)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) infant, child, adult
- Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
- Basic Cardiology
- Utilizing an AED on an Adult and Child
- Contraindications on using an AED
- Two Rescuer CPR/AED on Adult, Child, and Infant
- First Aid
- Initial Assessment vs. Secondary AssessmentEmergency Moves – Clothes Drag, Seat Carry, Physical Exam and SAMPLE History, Documentation, Sudden Illness, Wounds, Bleeding, Caring for Shock, Weather, Weather Burns, Injuries to muscles, bones, and joints, Splints, Bites and Stings, Administering Epinephrine, Assisting with bronchodilators (inhalers), Heat Related Emergencies, Cold Related Emergencies, Designing and Implementing Emergency Action Plan, Common types of injuries in your area, First Aid Kits.
- Lifeguard Training
- The Professional Lifeguard and Injury Prevention
- Benefits of being a professional LG
- Responsibilities of a professional LG
- Decision making
- The LG Team
- How facility management promotes LG professionalism
- Preventing injuries – patron safety
- Communicating with patrons
- Safety checks
- Weather conditions
- Management and safety
- Water Rescues
- Extension assists
- Swimming extension rescue
- Active drowning victim rear rescue and extrication
- Multiple victim rescues
- Passive drowning victim, rear rescue and extrication
- Feet first surface dive
- Submerged victim rescue
- Releases
- Patron Surveillance and Injury Prevention
- Patron Surveillance
- The “RID” Factor
- Correct Scanning
- LG Stations, rotations, and areas of responsibility
- Responding to Emergencies
- Emergency Action Plans (EAP’s)
- Critical Incident Stress Disorder
- Entries and approaches
- Skills session – entries and approaches
- Victim recognition and Rescues
- Caring for Head, Neck and Back Injuries on Land; in Shallow and Deep Water
- Defining and caring for a Head, Neck and Back Injury
- In-line stabilization techniques
- Shallow Water
- Suspected spinal victim – on top of water and submerged passive victim rescue
- Using a backboard in shallow water
- Head splint
- Vice Grip
- Deep Water
- Suspected spinal victim – on top of water and submerged passive victim rescue
- Using a backboard in deep water
- Course Review
- CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer
- First Aid
- Lifeguarding / Open Water Lifeguarding
- UAE Culture and Lifesaving
- UAE Beaches
- Holy Ramadan
- Public Holidays
Certification Requirements:
- Successfully complete all lifeguard courses.
- Attend and successfully complete in-person training with the lifeguard Instructor.
- Written Exam: 80% or better on the 60 question exam (10 additional questions for emergency oxygen module).
- Performance Evaluation: Students must perform the following skills.
- Vigilance Awareness:
- Primary Survey
- Scan a zone and recognize a distressed or drowning victim
- Effective rotation
- Responsive Victim Rescue:
- Activate an Emergency Action Plan (EAP)
- In-water rescue of a responsive victim
- In-water Suspected Spinal
- Stabilize a suspected head, neck, or back injury in the water, extricate victim to land
- Suspected Spinal on Land
- Stabilize a suspected head, neck, or back injury on land
- Painful, Deformed Limb
- Stabilize a swollen, painful, deformed limb
- Recovery Position
- Care of a victim who is uninjured, breathing normally, but unresponsive
- Severe Bleeding and Shock
- Primary assessment for a responsive person
- Control severe bleeding
- Remove contaminated gloves
- Choking:
- Removal of foreign body airway obstruction for adult, child, infant
- Basic Life Support:
- Primary assessment for an unresponsive person.
- External chest compressions.
- Rescue breaths using a CPR mask for adults, children, and infants.
- Rescue breaths using a bag-mask for adults, children, and infants.
- CPR as a single provider for adults, children, and infants.
- Safely attach and operate an automated external defibrillator (AED).
- BLS care as part of a team of two or more providers
- Unresponsive Drowning:
- In-water rescue and extrication of an unresponsive victim
- CPR and AED use for drowning as part of a team of two or more providers.
- In-water rescue and extrication of an unresponsive victim.
- Vigilance Awareness: