Fred Ellinger, Jr. is a Nationally Registered EMT-Paramedic who has over 20 years of EMS operations, EMS management, instruction, firefighting and rescue experience. He is the owner/operator of SafeTec Training Services, a Pennsylvania Bureau of EMS approved continuing education sponsor and trainer for many healthcare agencies and corporations in the tri-state Pennsylvania area. He serves as a flight paramedic for MidAtlantic MedEvac, Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is an original/active medical specialist with Pennsylvania Urban Search and Rescue Response System’s PA Company 2 and the Bucks County Technical Rescue Task Force. He is the Mid-Atlantic Regional Course Director for The Difficult Airway Course: EMS and serves as a content committee member of Airway World (www.airwayworld.com), a unique single-source for all information related to airway management. Fred can be reached at fred.ellinger@difficultairway.net. His most recent publications include:
Advanced Rescue Technology. Outfitting a Fanny Pack to Support Technical Rescue Medical Operations. Ellinger and Jaslow. (2005).
EMS Responder. Best Practices: Airway Management of the Limited Access Patient. Ellinger and Jaslow. (2007).
Journal of Emergency Medical Services. A Tight Squeeze. Murphy and Ellinger. (2008).
Emergency Medical Services Magazine. Critical Care Transport Issues: Interfacility Transportation of a Patient on ECMO. Ellinger and Wydro. (2009)
Waypoint AirMed & Rescue. Stick in the Eye Guy. Ellinger (2010, June)
EMS Responder. Managing the Airway Outside, Upside Down and Inside Out. Ellinger (2010)
Waypoint AirMed & Rescue. Etomidate in HEMS. Ellinger (2011, October)
Waypoint AirMed & Rescue. Unimproved Landing Zones. Ellinger and Schili (2012, February)
Waypoint AirMed & Rescue, Ask the Experts – Hazards of RSI without Paralysis (2012, March)
Manual of Emergency Airway Management, 4th Edition, Chapter 28 Approach to the EMS Airway. Ellinger, Zane, Murphy (April, 2012)
Waypoint AirMed & Rescue, Ask the Experts – Successful Bag-Mask Ventilation in EMS (2012, April)
Waypoint AirMed & Rescue, Ask the Experts – Cricoid Pressure Lay Off the Sellicks and BURP ‘Em! (2012, June)
Waypoint AirMed & Rescue, Ask the Experts – RSI Pitfalls – Proper Preoxygenation (2012, July)
Waypoint AirMed & Rescue, Briefing for HEMS (2012, September)