StarGuard is the required text for the StarGuard Lifeguard certification. This edition will develop your ability to prevent, recognize, and respond to water emergencies. It includes 2015 ILCOR and AHA guidelines for first aid and CPR and exceeds the CDC Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) guidelines for lifeguard course content.

StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards, Fifth Edition, assists lifeguard candidates in preventing, recognizing, and responding to water emergencies in pool, waterpark, and waterfront settings. Combined with hands-on, scenario-based training sessions taught by authorized StarGuard instructors, the updated text and accompanying web resource teach the essentials of lifeguarding: prevention, surveillance, response and rescue, emergency care, and workplace safety and professionalism. StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards provides specific strategies for decision making. With this authoritative yet accessible guide you will learn the following: • Strategies for reducing risk at recreational aquatic venues • Essential skills for response and rescue, including how to perform land-based assists and water-based rescues • How to recognize indicators of and critical events that can lead to distress and drowning • Emergency care skills in the event of a drowning, injury, or illness, including suspected spinal injuries • Techniques for adapting lifesaving skills for special situations, such as single-guard facilities, inflatable play structures, special events, or lifeguarding individuals with disabilities • Proper techniques for dealing with bodily fluids and fecal contaminations to reduce the risk of recreational water illness The updated fifth edition contains the latest research on best practices in lifeguarding and emergency care, including the most current CPR/AED first aid content based on international guidelines. From surveillance to prevention and emergency care, StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards, Fifth Edition, covers all aspects of lifeguarding in an easy-to-understand format. Together, the text, online resource, and hands-on training course prepare lifeguards with the decision-making, emergency response, and first aid skills necessary for preventing water emergencies and saving lives. Additionally, StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards provides the foundation for the operational policies, procedures, and guidance delivered through the StarGuard Elite complete aquatic safety and risk management system available to aquatic facilities.

The fourth editon of StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards presents the essentials of lifeguarding, helping lifeguard candidates become skilled and proactive. This resource contains the latest research in lifeguarding and lifesaving, including the most current CPR/AED and first aid content. Integrating each of these components into an experiential methodology of training lifeguards is a hallmark of the StarGuard certification program.

StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards, Third Edition, gives you the tools you need to become a skilled and knowledgeable lifeguard in a pool, water park, waterfront, or wilderness setting. It emphasizes the essential knowledge you need, with material o.

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