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If you have an OEC-related question, contact Dennis Zercher, Region OEC Administrator at:
Dennis Zercher
320 Robson Road
Dillsburg, PA 17019
H: 717-432-9093
For information on becoming QRS Certified, please click on button below.
All OEC Refreshers require no pre-registration. If you are from out of the region, the fee is $8.00 payable at the refresher. Registering for an NSP Eastern PA Region program is easy and only involves four steps. Select
which courses you wish to attend. See the Schedule of Events to
choose. Regular
Program Registration Form REGULAR
PROGRAMS If for some reason your plans change and you can not attend, you will receive a refund if you have contacted the coordinator in sufficient time. |
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of Copies Required You will need to send a separate registration form for each program desired for both the regular and senior programs. If you are taking programs from the same program coordinator, you have the option of sending that program coordinator 1 form with all the desired courses selected (and a check which covers the program fees for all selected courses). For instance, let's say you are taking Basic Avalanche, EPA Patroller School, and Ski with an Instructor. You would send one form to Rich Hartman with Basic Avalanche selected, and a check for $25. You would send another form to Bill Jordan with EPA Patroller School and Ski with an Instructor selected, along with a check for $100. This holds for
the senior program. All OEC clinics and evaluations are organized
by Jeff Marks, so you'd only have to fill out one form for the Senior
OEC programs. Bob Bluff handles the Senior S&T programs, so
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Unless you actively teach Outdoor Emergency Care or are a medical provider, such as an EMT or physician, your skills will diminish simply from the fact that you do not actively using them for seven or eight months out of the year. While the fall OEC refreshers are helpful in restoring skills and our confidence in applying them to real injured or ill patients, is attendance at a one day-refresher enough? Will you be confident that you can meet your ski area’s standard of care one the day the area opens and every day thereafter? It’s too late when you get to an accident scene and you draw a blank or make a mistake that further injures that snow rider. And refreshers only cover one-third of the manual so it takes a three-year cycle to get through it. I don’t know about you, but I can’t remember what to do about an abdominal evisceration two years after we see it in a fall refresher. Part of it is just getting our minds back in gear.
One obvious ay to do that is to review the 4th edition OEC Manual – but that is a daunting task. Another resource is OECzone.com. It’s a quick way to refresh and it’s interactive so you don’t need to wade through pages of a manual. You can find videos of skills and Interactive simulations at Interactivities. Another useful section is the Online Chapter Pretests. These are quick and easy to take and you get feedback immediately after completing the quiz. The OECzone site has some other useful practice items such as Flashcards. Look it over – while it doesn’t replace hands-on experience is does get the “OEC juices” flowing again after a long summer off.
OEC Refresher 2006, Cycle B.
The fall refreshers are coming and the schedule is in the EPA calendar. National indicates that On Scene will be out in the first two weeks in July so watch for it in your mailbox. The format for refreshers this year will be pretty much the same as last year’s, with an emphasis on skill-paced, self-paced progression through the stations. Come prepared!
Remember that you must bring your properly stocked pack and your current OEC card. Find that card now and set it aside for the refresher. If you can’t, or it’s not current, get a replacement from NSP HQ well before the refresher. Watch this site for updates as we get closer to the refreshers. If you go out of region, ensure you have the refresher IOR sign your OEC card and the Supplemental Roster Information form (located in On Scene) and give the completed form to your patrol director.
Children’s airways are relatively smaller than those of adults and their tongues are relatively larger. That means children’s airways are more easily blocked. Their necks are more flexible than those of adults, so the rescuer must be careful not to hyperextend the child’s neck when trying to open the airway.
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