The fifth annual Eastern Utah Emergency Care Symposium took place on Saturday at the Carbon County Senior Citizen Center.
The symposium is aimed toward providing updated trainings and current trends in emergency care for all fields, including EMS, EMT, fire, law enforcement and industrial first responders. Many of these participants are volunteers throughout their communities. The event is a two-day training with hands on training and well as refreshers on techniques.
This year’s focus for the event was trauma. Volunteers from CERT (Citizens Emergency Response Team), USU-Eastern Theater and Castle Valley Community Theater reenacted different injuries after a car crashed through a crowd of people. The exercise was designed to combine all they had learned and put it to use in this emergency scenario.
Also on hand were healthcare professionals to speak to participants about their fields, including Dr. Terrie Hoffman and Laurie Marrick RN, BSM.
The Eastern Utah Emergency Care Symposium was developed after it was discovered that local first responders were having to leave the area in order to participate in these types of specialized trainings for recertification.
The price for these conferences reached upwards of $500 for the conference alone, not including food and lodging. This training would alleviate the burden of high costs with a local training that would save money for the participants.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, you can contact Amy Jones at amy.jones@carbon.utah.gov or Robby Donaldson at rdonaldson@utah.gov.
