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.

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Assessment Flow Verbalization

Several of you have asked for an audio version of the Assessment Flow.  This would be great to have, but unfortunately, we don't have one today.

In the meantime, we do have one from 2008.  Several of you have asked to get access, so here it is.  Link here.  Shout-out to Josh Masur, now member of the NSP Board of Directors, for this recording.

BUT, if you choose to take a listen, a cautionary note - this recording uses the old 2008 OEC4 protocol.  While our current OEC5 protocol is similar, there are some differences (urgent survey, etc.).  So, if you choose to listen to this version, be very careful to ensure that you're making the appropriate translations to our current protocol.

As we've discussed, the best example we have of the current protocol is the 2-pager that we previously distributed.  Link here.

Looking forward, it would be great to have an audio version of our current protocol that we can archive and use in future classes (ours and others).  Any golden-voice volunteers to put one together?
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