Season 1
24 episodes
59 min. per episode
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In a relentless race against time, a brilliant surgeon confronts life-and-death decisions, testing ethics and resilience in every operating room.
Episodes
Maxillofacial surgeons Tim and Sat prepare for a marathon operation on 53-year-old Teresa who has a cancerous tumour in her face and will die in a matter of weeks unless it is removed.
74-year-old Jasmine has a vast tumour in her abdomen weighing more than 3 stone. It is consuming her, displacing organs including her stomach and liver. Unless it can be removed she has just 4 weeks to live.
The series concludes by following clinical trials being held at the hospital. Surgeons implant a microphone into a patient's head. A woman receives a liver that would not normally be transplanted.
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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.