Critical Condition

Season 5

Documentary series following the work of staff at Stoke-on-Trent's Royal University Hospital. With no narration it is the front-line NHS staff who explain the emergency cases they are faced with and the course of action they will take.

Where to Watch Season 5

8 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1Following a car crash, 26-year-old Tino is rushed into hospital suffering from a potentially life-threatening aortic tear. After falling backwards on an escalator, Frank impaled his head on a metal step and the threat of blood loss is a major concern, and a university student is rushed in to have a tumour removed
  • Episode 2
    E2
    Episode 2A man is rushed in with some of the worst facial injuries the team have ever seen, a woman has been badly injured in a road accident, and another has fallen in a care home
  • Episode 3
    E3
    Episode 3The pressure is on for Dr Jamil Aslam when 64 year-old Barry is rushed into resus with suspected sepsis. Lucy is rushed into the Emergency department after her horse somersaulted while she was riding it, catapulting her to the ground and landing on top of her.
  • Episode 4
    E4
    Episode 4A young man is in excruciating pain from what may be a dangerous pulmonary embolism.
  • Episode 5
    E5
    Episode 5A cardiac arrest patient is found to also have a perforated bowel, a gas explosion could cost a man his leg, and what is causing a woman's blood pressure to plummet dangerously?
  • Episode 6
    E6
    Episode 6Cases include a builder who's had a 25-foot fall through a roof and sustained spinal fractures, a woman having an acute asthma attack, and a pregnant cancer patient undergoing surgery.
  • Episode 7
    E7
    Episode 7
  • Episode 8
    E8
    Episode 8Having plummeted 15 feet onto concrete, Michael is rushed into resus with a significant laceration to his head. And a driver has a crushed leg after being run over by his own van.

 

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