Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Season 4

Surgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke’s hospitals perform complex procedures to save lives. But this comes with great risk and the surgeons bear the ultimate responsibility.

6 Episodes

  • Worth the Risk
    E1
    Worth the RiskOperations where even a small mistake is catastrophic. Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth hospitals remove a life-threatening tumour and repair a young patient’s aorta.
  • Total Dedication
    E2
    Total DedicationOperations to transform patients’ lives. Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth take on a high-risk spine procedure and perform open heart surgery on an 80-year-old patient.
  • Putting It Back Together Again
    E3
    Putting It Back Together AgainSurgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke's hospitals must put their patients back together again after removing life-threatening lung and facial tumours.
  • Courage
    E4
    CourageSurgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital take on life changing surgery that takes two specialist surgeons two days to perform and involves removing all the organs in the patient’s pelvis.
  • Quality of Life
    E5
    Quality of LifeSurgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital perform a complex procedure to help a patient swallow again and remove a tumour that is threatening a patient’s vision.
  • Major Trauma - #Surgeons
    E6
    Major Trauma - #SurgeonsAddenbrooke’s major trauma team and surgeons treat some of the country's most critically injured patients. Multiple teams must decide whether a man's damaged arm can be saved.

Cast of Season 4

  • Shaun DooleyNarrator

 

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