EMRS & EMRTS Critical Care & Retrieval Services with Wayne Auton and Tom Archer

In this episode I talk to Wayne Auton and Tom Archer who work
respectively for the Scottish and Welsh Air Ambulances (EMRS
& EMRTS). Wayne is a former Royal Marine and currently a
Specialist Paramedic in retrieval and transfer medicine as well
as pre-hospital critical care. Tom is a Critical Care
Practitioner & lecturer on the Critical Care MSc in Cardiff
University. In this episode I talk with Wayne and Tom about
innovation within the domain, advice to aspiring critical care
colleagues, top tips in leadership & group dynamics. I also
ask then about how they have navigated the past 6 months both
personally and as a service.


The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS)
provides critical care and transfer to definitive treatment for
patients in remote healthcare locations across Scotland. They
provide Consultant and Retrieval Practitioner delivered
aeromedical retrieval from rural health care facilities
throughout Scotland and well as pre-hospital critical care of
major trauma patients, telemedicine advice to rural health care
colleagues, rural facility outreach training and research in
pre-hospital medicine and major incident support across the
country.


The Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service
(EMRTS) Cymru is an aeromedical retrieval service that
provides Consultant and Critical Care Practitioner-delivered
pre-hospital critical care across Wales. It was launched at the
end of April 2015 and is a partnership between Wales Air
Ambulance Charity, Welsh Government and NHS Wales. EMRTS provide
pre-hospital critical care for all age groups (i.e. any
intervention/decision that is carried outside standard paramedic
practice) and undertake time-critical, life or limb-threatening
adult and paediatric transfers from peripheral centres (inc.
Emergency Departments, Medical Assessment Units, Minor Injury
Units) for patients requiring specialist intervention at the
receiving hospital. 


I hope you enjoy the episode with these two great friends.





You can find out more about them both here: 


Wayne:


https://www.wayneauton.com/blog-1/https/wwwwayneautoncom/blog-page-url/new-post-title


Tom:


https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-archer-857b2354/?originalSubdomain=uk