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.

Friday, October 1, 2021

Splinting Week & Next Steps

 Nice job this week on splinting!  And big thanks to Dave B & Jeff for taking the lead!

Looking foward, a few updates:

- As you discussed in class, there will be no bandaging & splinting practice this weekend.  Instead, we'll meet at 5:30 next Tuesday for some additional practice.  And if necessary, we'll do a bit more of this in class as well.

- Line up your guest patient for the midterm on Saturday, Oct. 9.  Start at 9:00 at the Mazda dealership.  We'll do the skills evaluation first, and your guest patients will be done by 11:30 or so.  They can take off, or hang around to observe the mock-final exam scenarios.   After the skills evals, we'll take quick break and then roll into 3-4 scenarios that will mimic the exact final exam protocol & evaluations.  We'll likely move down the street to the Jeep dealership as it has a bit more room to accommodate the scenarios.  As we discussed, these scenarios will be great feedback for us all.  We should expect to wrap up around 2PM.

- Then look forward to Backboard Sunday on the 10th.  We'll start at 8:00 promptly.  Get a good night's sleep and be there a bit early & be ready to roll.  We should wrap up around 4PM.

For now, more practice this weekend, and we'll see you all next Tuesday.

- Bill