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Students teach life-saving techniques at Disaster Preparedness and Health Fair

By
Tamara Brune-Wharton
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November 13, 2014
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Pre-SOMA Club co-president Phebe Young demonstrates how to suture a wound using pigskin
Phebe Young, global health worker and Co-President of SLCC’s Pre-SOMA Club, demonstrated how to stitch a wound at the Suture Clinic booth. (Guadalupe Sandoval Rodriguez)

On Thursday, Nov. 6, SLCC’s Taylorsville Redwood Campus hosted the Emergency Disaster Preparedness and Health Fair.

The event was held in the atrium of the Science and Industry Building and housed numerous emergency preparation stations.

Participants ranged from several SLCC Health Sciences Program students, AAA, Taylorsville Paramedics, and numerous community health and rescue professionals.

Maitland Wiren demonstrating how to put a splint on someone's arm or leg
Maitland Wiren showed off the numerous devices and ways to apply a splint, which immobilizes an injured arm or leg to prevent further injury. (Guadalupe Sandoval Rodriguez)

The booths provided glucose and blood pressure testing, CPR and dietetic instruction, as well as survival strategies.

“We are trying to give people awareness [of what to do] in a disaster situation and [how] to keep somebody out of pain,” says Maitland Wiren, a ski patroller and Emergency Medical Technician for the UofU Emergency Room.

Wiren demonstrated several types of wraps and splinting techniques, including a special moldable splint, which can easily form to various body areas, such as limbs, to stabilize injuries prior to receiving medical attention.

Many of the Health Sciences students who helped with the fair are attending SLCC as part of larger goals to enter the medical field.

Wiren has attended SLCC for three years in order to take vital medical classes.

“I’ll be more than halfway through biology, with the intention of going to med school,” says Wiren.

For more information about the Health Science Program, visit http://www.slcc.edu/hs.

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Tamara Brune-Wharton

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