Description: Preceded by Paramedic: anatomy and physiology / American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; Bob Elling, Kirsten M. Elling, Mikel A. Rothenberg; editor, Andrew N. Pollak. c2004.
Brief description: Kirsten (Kirt) Elling is a career paramedic who works for the Town of Colonie in upstate New York. She began EMS work in 1988 as an EMT/firefighter and has been a National Registered paramedic since 1991. She has been an EMS educator since 1990 teaching basic and advanced EMS programs at the Institute of Prehospital Emergency Medicine in Troy, New York. Kirt serves as Regional Faculty for the NYS DOH, Bureau of EMS and the American Heart Association. She has written numerous scripts for the EMS training video series PULSE: Emergency Medical Update, is the author of Jones & Bartlett/AAOS books: Paramedic: Anatomy & Physiology, Paramedic: Pathophysiology and Paramedic: Pharmacology. Kirt was also a contributing author of the IPEM Paramedic Lab Manual, and an adjunct writer for the 1998 revision of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, EMT-Paramedic and EMT-Intermediate: National Standard Curricula and the 2007 Paramedic Practice Guidelines.