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Sunday, February 05, 2012

..:: About ::..

About Us

We are a group of NHS doctors that are committed to improving the treatment of trauma in South Wales. Some of us are hospital specialists such as Anaesthetists, Surgeons and Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care doctors, and some work in General Practice around the region. We all use our professional skills when called upon to attend serious incidents or accidents.

We work closely with the Welsh Ambulance Service and have developed a system of notifying the doctors whenever they are required. We audit our work and have an appriasal system to ensure that our education and development needs are met. We have an agreed list of Standard Operating Procedures that the doctors use to make sure practice is safe and up to date.

The extra skills we can bring to an incident include:

- Advanced Airway Skills including Drug Assisted Intubation and Surgical Airway Techniques.

- Advanced Analgesia (Pain Relief), Sedation and General Anaesthesia.

- Surgical Skills including Resuscitative Thoracotomy, Surgical Airways, and Field Amputations.

- Advanced Scene Management (including Command Roles for Major Incidents) and Extrication Skills.

Also with the Ambulance Service being so busy we are also sometimes the first medical assistance on the scene to give life-saving treatment.

The link below is to a YouTube video made for BASICS Hampshire which outlines the work of BASICS doctors very clearly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibe2ru7eKa4

Members of MedServe Wales

	Doctor	Biography
		Dr Kevin Thomas Group Chairman General Practitioner
		Dr Ian Bowler FRCA Group Secretary Consultant Anaesthetist at Llandough Hospital, Cardiff since 2000. Member of MedServe Wales since 1998 & Secretary since 2003.
		Dr Martyn Read FRCA Group Treasurer Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. Dr Martyn Read started his training in London, but moved to Wales in 1988, and completed his training in 1993. While his current post at the University Hospital of Wales predominantly comprises Intensive Care and giving anaesthetics to patients having brain surgery, his training and experience have included an emphasis on the most unwell patients in other settings, including anaesthetics for major vascular surgery, and resuscitation after trauma. In 1992, he spent a year working in Montpellier in France, working in the trauma system there, including their Intensive Care Unit, and the SAMU, the French ambulance system.
		Dr Jonathan Whelan FRCA FIMC.RCS(Ed) FFICM Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport. Active interest in pre-hospital emergency medicine for over 10 years. Keen Motorsports Fan & Chief Medical Officer at Thruxton Circuit in Hampshire since 2006. Active Member of MedServe Wales since 2007.
		Dr Kyle Jacques Consultant in Emergency Medicine.
		Dr Petra Oliffe General Practitioner.
		Dr Richard Lewis General Practitioner. Dr Richard Lewis has worked in pre-hospital care and trauma management as a pre-hospital practitioner since taking up full time General Practice in Caerau during 1987. He is a founder member of MEDSERVE and of the Faculty of Pre-hospital Emergency Care, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Richard has maintained BASICS membership and accreditation throughout his pre-hospital and general practice career. He was a pre-hospital emergency instructor and a previous Major Incident Medical Management (MIMMS) instructor. As a previous Medical Director in the Ambulance Service in Wales Richard is familiar and committed to a multi-agency approach to pre-hospital trauma and team working with other emergency services ie; police, fire and ambulance colleagues to maximise patient management.
		Dr Barbara Bahlmann Consultant Anaesthetist at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
		Mr Leigh Davies Specialist Registrar in General Surgery.
		Dr Ray Monsell General Practitioner.
		Dr Richard Smith FRCA Specialist Registrar in Anaesthetics on the Wales Rotation. Longstanding interest in pre-hospital emergency medicine. Active motorsport doctor since 2006, covering both track and stage rally events. Western most member of MedServe.