The Fourth Annual Eastern Utah Emergency Care Symposium will be held on Friday, September 15 from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm and Saturday, September 16 from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm at the Carbon County Event Center located at 310 South Fairgrounds Road in Price. The cost for the event on Friday is $35.00, Saturday only is $45.00 and to attend both days the cost will be discounted to $75.00.
The symposium is open to all EMS, Hazmat, Police, Dispatch and Medical Personnel and any individuals who may need Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit hours. “If you come to Friday night you get four and Saturday is eight credits so it’s a lot of continuing education for these people at the rural area. That’s why we did this is to be able to serve the people in our area. A lot of them are volunteers and so they don’t have the ability to travel to some of these symposiums and conferences outside of Carbon County,” stated Whitney Waterfall, Event Coordinator.
Registration will begin on Friday at 1:00 pm till 2:00 pm featuring an evening of Skills Labs which will is a hands-on course. Waterfall explained further, “Friday night they are doing a peds, which is pediatrics and they’re doing anything to do with peds air-ways and they’re having actual kids come and you get to practice on kids.” The Cardiac Anatomy Lab will be presented by Cory Oaks and the Pediatric Patient Assessment will be conducted by Lauri Merrick, RN and Andrea Clement.
Each year the symposium concentrates on different areas for individuals to receive CME credit hours. “We switch it up every year because you need different CME credits for different years in order to meet your four-year goal to recertify,” stated Waterfall. The credit hours for Friday evening’s skill labs will be four hours, Saturday courses will be eight hours and both days will be twelve hours of CME credit.
Saturday presentations will feature:
Lori McBride, Peds RN, Intermountain Life Flight, “The Sick Peds Airway”
Mark Hoyt, Flight Paramedic, Intermountain Life Flight, “The Difficult Airway”
Mike Ulibarri, Battalion Chief United Fire Authority, “Incident Scene Safety”
Dr. Douglas Hansen, MD, FAAP, FACEP, Medical Director, Emergency Department Primary Children Hospital, “Pediatric Seizures”
YaVonne Liljenquist, RN, CCRN, QB, GoE, Intermountain Life Flight, “The Joy of Cardiac”
Deputy Mike Adams, and Officer Brandon Ratcliffe, Carbon Metro Drug Task Force, “The Street Drug Trends”
Angie Adams, RN Lifeflight, “T.E.A.M. Safety”
Individuals can register at https://secureinstantpayments.com/sip/cart/event.php?EID=929 or call the Carbon County Event Center at (435) 636-3214