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