{"id":1243991,"date":"2023-07-17T08:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T13:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1243991"},"modified":"2023-07-18T16:17:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:17:24","slug":"east-texas-first-responders-prepare-for-football-season-with-sideline-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1243991","title":{"rendered":"East Texas first responders prepare for football season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1243998\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/1stresponders-175x118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/1stresponders-175x118.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/1stresponders-200x135.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/1stresponders.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; An emergency sideline training course was held at UT Health East Texas Saturday to help prepare EMS, doctors and nurses for middle and high school sports events, according to our news partner KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To reach out to a number of different health care professionals and make this a multi-disciplinary conference because we recognize we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the sidelines dealing with emergencies,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Michael Galbraith, associate program director of sports medicine for UT Health Science Center. The conference is a way to bridge the gap between all the first responders involved during a game emergency, especially when it comes to communication. With football season less than a month away knowing how to care for a patient covered in safety equipment is key to a quick response.<!--more--> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also talking about heat illness, like heat stroke on the sidelines with sports, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also going to talk about dislocations and how we can reduce dislocations on the sideline with athletes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Galbraith. Sporting events are a rare environment for first responders and not everyone gets the chance to learn about the types of injuries they may be faced with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; An emergency sideline training course was held at UT Health East Texas Saturday to help prepare EMS, doctors and nurses for middle and high school sports events, according to our news partner KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To reach out to a number of different health care professionals and make this a multi-disciplinary conference because we recognize &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1243991\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas first responders prepare for football season<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1244000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/1stresponders-175x118.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas first responders prepare for football season with sideline training","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 19:16:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/1stresponders-175x118.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas first responders prepare for football season with sideline training","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244070,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243991\/revisions\/1244070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1244000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}