PARSIPPANY — The EMS Council of New Jersey’s (EMSCNJ) held their annual Symposium and Trade Show at the Sheraton Parsippany Hotel, 199 Smith Road, from October 12 to October 14.
The event included nearly four dozen EMT education-credit seminars, trade show exhibits and vendors with the latest medical and rescue equipment, a Parsippany Rescue and Recovery Unit confined-space rescue demonstration, an antique ambulance display and contest, EMS-related merchandise booths, a Tricky Tray auction and 50/50 raffles, Friday night “American Country Buffet” and Saturday banquet with live entertainment.
Parsippany Rescue and Recovery performs a live demonstration each year. This year they were demonstrating on how to approach a scene and how they work in conjunction with Emergency Medical Services. They first have the lieutenants approach the scene walk a 360 figure out what is wrong and then come back to the members and they bring the tools and stabilize the vehicles. Then they make an entry for EMS to get into the vehicle and to stabilize the patient while Rescue and Recovery finishes extricate in the vehicles to remove all of the occupants of the vehicle.
