Fall 2015 Outdoor Emergency Care Course

This site covers the National Ski Patrol's Outdoor Emergency Care (OEC) training course that's held in the San Francisco South Bay area each Fall. Details on registration, materials, preparation and location are located on the tabs above. Course updates are posted below as they are published.

Outdoor Emergency Care® is the National Ski Patrol’s award-winning training program for patrollers and others in the recreation community who deal with emergency situations. This nationally recognized program is designed to help you manage the toughest emergencies, in all seasons. Developed in the late 1980s for the 26,000 members of the National Ski Patrol, Outdoor Emergency Care is a training program that is tailored to the nonurban rescuer. Today, OEC is considered the standard of training for emergency care in the outdoor environment and is recognized by resorts and recreational facilities in all 50 states.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Heart Attack Symptoms - Men vs Women

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

Link here.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Midterm Skills Checklist

As we discussed in class, here's the Skills Check-off sheet we'll use for the midterm skills evaluation.  Link here.

Number of scenarios is directly correlated to final exam success... Pics from Week 6.






Midterm & Backboard Sunday Plan

As we discussed in class, next weekend we have two important events:

         > Saturday is midterm day.  We'll start at 9AM.  First, you'll demonstrate & be evaluated on every bandage, splint, & airway adjunct you've learned.  You'll also demonstrate boot & helmet removal.  Bring your boots & helmet and don't forget to bring your victim (as well as your camera for great social media pics).  This should take about 2 hours.  Saturday afternoon, we'll do a select set of scenarios on which you'll be graded per the final exam protocols.   We should wrap up around 2PM.  Bring your own lunch or snacks.

         > Sunday is Backboard Sunday.  Coffee at 7:30 and start promptly at 8:00.  We'll cover techniques in the AM and then do a variety of backboard scenarios in the afternoon.  Dave R. is arranging lunch.  Wear old clothes, bring kneepads, and be prepared to get dirty.  The day will go through 4-5PM.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Shock Reference

Ran across this article on shock.  Chart and article are a good reference: http://www.ehealthstar.com/hypovolemia/hypovolemic-shock


Sunday, September 21, 2014

Week 5 Complete

Congratulations to all for solid work to date.  As we've discussed, we've now completed a set of basic skills - assessment, bandaging, & splinting - which will form a baseline set of tools in your quiver.  We'll use Tuesday to review these tools one more time, and then move forward to more complex situations where you'll pull from this toolkit and apply new skills you'll learn soon.  Keep up the good work.


Written Final Exam Study Materials

It's time to start studying for the final written exam.  Here are three 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.

- The actual final exams for the past 3 years are located at the bottom of:  OEC V Chapter Tests  

- Finally, One of last year's South Bay students used the Quizlet application to create a set of flashcards containing the questions & answers.  It can be found at http://quizlet.com/29785932/flashcards  You can either study the flash cards on your laptop browser, or mobile using the iPhone & Andriod app.  Once you install it, if you search for "OEC Final 2013" you should be able to get to them.  Also -- when studying, if you click on the "Shuffle" button, it'll mix them up.

Friday, September 5, 2014

Week 3 Complete

Nice work all.  As we discussed in class, our priorities now are competence & confidence in assessment skills and learning baseline treatments.  Next week we'll begin learning some of the basic tools we have at our disposal.

In the meantime some pics from Thursday's scenarios:



Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Bandaging & Splinting Guides

This week and next we cover bandaging & splinting. As we discussed in class, there are two documents on the class GoogleDrive that are helpful.  Link here.