Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Season 2

Cameras follow surgeons, anaesthetists, theatre staff and patients at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham's surgical unit, where surgeons push medical boundaries to the limit.

6 Episodes

  • One False Move
    E1
    One False MoveThe series returns to the operating theatres of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. A neurosurgeon has to wake his patient up during an operation to remove his brain tumour.
  • Pushing the Boundaries
    E2
    Pushing the BoundariesConsultant Maxillofacial Surgeon Tim Martin and his operating partner Sat Parmar are planning a marathon operation on former police officer Loretta. They believe they are the first UK surgeons to operate on the disease Loretta's suffering from.
  • A Risk Worth Taking?
    E3
    A Risk Worth Taking?Surgeons at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital carry out radical operations to help change patients’ lives, including the hospital’s largest ever removal of excess tissue.
  • A New Beginning?
    E4
    A New Beginning?At Birmingham Children’s Hospital, surgeons must transplant a kidney from a father to his two-year-old son, while a three-year-old girl needs a life-changing heart procedure.
  • Getting Better
    E5
    Getting BetterA surgeon performs the most complex operation in his field: removing a woman’s oesophagus and using her own stomach to replace it. Another team tackles a hard-to-reach tumour.
  • Every Second Counts
    E6
    Every Second CountsSurgeons take on major trauma operations at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital. They have just minutes to save a woman with a life-threatening bleed on her brain.

Cast of Season 2

  • Shaun DooleyNarrator

 

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