Rhonda Hunt (formerly Rhonda Beck) has worked in public safety since 1985. Rhonda wrote the first edition AAOS textbook, Intermediate: Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, as well as the second edition, Advanced Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Second Edition, and the Advanced Emergency Medical Technician Transition Manual. She has served as a contributor'in'various other publishing projects. She is a paramedic'and'EMT-intermediate and'instructs in both'of these areas;'she also instructs in ACLS, ITLS, pediatric ITLS, PALS, GEMS, EPC, AMLS, EMS Safety, and PHTLS, and serves on the Georgia state committee for ITLS. She was a volunteer fire fighter for 9 years.'Many of the emergency and injury photos in Intermediate: Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured and Advanced Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Second Edition have been taken by Rhonda during her work in the field.