Final Saturday Practice for the Final Practical Exam

All -

As we discussed in class, we'll get together Saturday for a practice for the Practical Final.  John Wiser will host and be joined by other patrollers (Big thanks to John & Team).

Saturday's practice will be at Rinconada Park, Palo Alto.  9AM to 11AM.  Meet near the tennis courts (like last time).

Great MCI Simulation Event!

Candidates -

Congrats on a great performance at our Mass Casualty Incident simulation event!   You all handled a broad variety of injuries and some crazy situations and did it well!  Pics below and on the class photo album here.

Now on to the written & practical final exams!  I know you'll do well.

Final Practical Exam Location

As we discussed in class, the Final Practical Exam will be held at Novo Construction in Menlo Park.  As we also discussed, due to the number of candidates to be evaluated, we'll likely go in 2 "waves" - one at around 8:30AM and another around 11:30. Details pending.  For now, Novo offices are here:

Tips As You Read the Book & Study for the Written Final

Keep Your Skills Fresh...

As we discussed in class, practice on  your friends, family, pets...

Mass Casualty Night -- October 30 -- Need Volunteers!

The culmination of our class, mass casualty night, has proven to be the most engaging, most instructive, and probably the most fun class of the entire course.  Great fun for patroller candidates & volunteers alike.

What's Mass Casualty Night?

We simulate an event where we have multiple patients in need of care.  Each patient acts out a unique injury.  The patroller candidates assess each patient and then provide the appropriate care by themselves or by leading a team to do so.   Pictures from previous year's event below.

Why is it unique?

The event is unique in that it requires the candidates to bring to bear all the skills they've learned in class, and do so in a stressful environment that we create.  It's also a great opportunity for friends, family and others interested to see what this Outdoor Emergency Care is all about.

We need your help

To make this happen, we need a large number of volunteers.  This year, we're looking for around 40.  Young and old, we want and welcome all.  We'll provide you some coaching on your "injury".  In some cases, we'll also apply some moulage to better simulate the injury.   And you'll get to act it out as you like, being as high or low maintenance as you like to your patroller-rescuer and their team.

Location

This year, our Mass Causality Simulation will take place at our usual class location: NetApp Sunnyvale.  GoogleMaps location here: https://oecsouthbay.blogspot.com/p/corse-location.html

How to Sign-up

If you're joining us, please sign-up. To do so, click on the link below and go to October 30. Sign up as a "MCI Night Patient Volunteer". Link here:  https://teamup.com/ksbbcadac8c015e175

No doubt this year will once again prove to be very instructive to candidates, and very fun for the volunteers. 

Thanks in advance for your support!

First Aid Kits - Group Purchase

For those that would still like to get one of the Life Safety first aid kits:

1. Call Life Safety @ (408) 573-1900 and ask for Chris.  
2. Tell him you'd like to add your name to the OEC Group Purchase for the Personal First Aide Kit (PFAK).  Price for our class is $125.
3. Chris will take you credit card & add you to the group buy.

Chris will be rolling up the order on Friday 10/25 EOD and will place the order.  We should have the kits in the next 2 weeks.  Jimmy or Chris will deliver to class.

FYI below on the contents of this pretty serious first aid kit:

Scenario Observations

Blunt Trauma Affect on the Brain

Jorge covered this in class.  But a good reminder:

via GIPHY

Scenario Humor

Scenarios are key to our success.  Train hard...

Click here to go to the Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3facRdg2eJ/

Written Final Exam Prep - Updated to 2018 Test Bank

[Now updated to the 2018 Test Bank]

It's time to start studying for the final written exam.  Here are tools which may be helpful:

- The test bank questions, sorted by OEC V book chapters, is at:  OEC V Chapter Tests  Answers to each question are located at the end of each question listing.

- We've also used the Quizlet application to create a set of flashcards containing the questions & answers.  It can be found at https://quizlet.com/438835791/2018-test-bank-flash-cards/   (Thanks to Carrie for setting this up for us!).

Lower Extremity Splint Selection

Sager Splint Process

Midterm Commonalities

As we discussed in class:

Backboard SMR One-Pager

Team -

John Wiser has put together a great one-pager on SMR/Backboard process.

Download your version here.

Big thanks to John for his leadership in putting this together.

Heart Attack - Men vs Women's Symptoms

In class this week we discussed heart attacks, and reviewed the different symptoms male/female.  Thanks to Mike Nealon who pointed out this instructive article on the topic.  Thanks Mike.

Link here.