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Show 20th Annual Emergency Medical Conference Held SALT LAKE CITY "It was like being offered a huge buffet and overeating till you think you'll explode" ex-plode" was how Emergency Medical Technician Ron Harris expressed his experience at the 20th Annual Emergency Medical Services Conference held last week Nov. 7-9, 7-9, at the Red Lion Hotel in Salt Lake City. Fifteen EMT's from Garfield County took advantage of the extensive ex-tensive three-day training session titled ti-tled Prehospital Emergency Care And Crisis Intervention presented by Emergency Medical Services Associates. Other attendees say the facilities were somewhat overcrowded over-crowded but the display booths were instructive and chocked full of helpful help-ful information. Two guest speakers began the morning Thursday, followed by one-hour workshops on a myriad of health care issues. Garfield EMT's were able to receive 20 continuing medical education credits for attending attend-ing courses which fulfilled specific guidelines for Utah recertification. Workshop presenters and speakers speak-ers were experts who came from throughout the U.S. from states such as Utah, California, Texas, Louisiana, New York, Washington, Tennessee, Arizona, Colorado, Ohio, Illinois, and Florida. They spoke, taught and demonstrated demon-strated on such varied subjects as backboarding skills, spinal care, triage, gunshot wounds, childbirth, trauma resuscitation, crime scene preservation and police interaction, rodeo trauma, stroke, diabetic emergencies, emer-gencies, motorcycle injuries, shock and sexually related trauma. Panguitch EMT Tammy Barton summed it up when she said, "There is no place our rural EMTs can, in three days, pick up so much valuable knowledge and training" than at the annual EMS conference. A workshop on Wilderness Medicine, dealt with extremes of the environment and remote locations loca-tions that challenge health care providers to be resourceful and improvise. im-provise. High altitude, hypothermia, hypother-mia, heat illness, alcohol abuse, venomous reptiles, swift- water near-drowning, frostbite, solar exposure ex-posure and lightning strikes. A workshop "That's The Way The Cranium Crumbles" dealt with head injury as the leading cause of traumatic death in the U.S. This lecture showed the students how to more accurately evaluate and treat the patient with head and neck injuries. in-juries. Chest Trauma: In Harm's Way was a generic presentation on chest trauma. Aspects of this presentation presenta-tion included airway dilemmas, pneumothorax, cardiac tamponade, blunt catdiac injury, rib fracture and flail chest. Several of the EMT's enjoyed their evening in the big city by attending at-tending the Brigham Young University vs Rice football game and husband and wife, Jimmy and Cindy Johnson learned a new way to play softball. Attending from Garfield County were Ron Harris, Susan Harris, Jini'my Johnson and Cindy Johnson, Kim Soper and Laurie Soper, Stan Stowe, Jim Bowman, Sandrea Francisco, Roger Casebolt, Rick Bybee, Tammy Barton, Michelle Sevy, Mac Oetting and Julianne Mullenaux. |