Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Season 5

Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge perform complex procedures to save lives. But this comes with great risk, and the surgeons bear the ultimate responsibility.

6 Episodes

  • Major Trauma - Back from the Brink
    E1
    Major Trauma - Back from the BrinkSurgeons at Addenbrooke’s Major Trauma Centre must operate on a single mum who has a severed spinal cord and a critically injured motorcyclist.
  • Every Moment Counts
    E2
    Every Moment CountsSurgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital perform brain surgery on a patient who is awake and attempt to repair a section of the body’s biggest blood vessel that’s threatening to burst.
  • Back to Life
    E3
    Back to LifeSurgeons at Addenbrooke’s operate against the clock to remove a kidney from a husband and transplant it into his wife who is in end stage kidney failure.
  • Danger Zone
    E4
    Danger ZoneAddenbrooke’s surgeons take on two high-risk operations; surgery to excise tumours near the spinal cord and a procedure to remove a dangerous mass off the body’s largest vein.
  • Make or Break
    E5
    Make or BreakAddenbrooke’s surgeons perform life changing scoliosis surgery to straighten the spine of their 17-year-old patient but face the risk of causing paralysis.
  • One Step at a Time
    E6
    One Step at a TimeSurgeons at Addenbrooke’s Major Trauma Centre must operate on two road accident victims who have suffered life-changing injuries so serious they could lead to an amputation.

Cast of Season 5

  • Shaun DooleyNarrator

 

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