Season 5
6 episodes
59 min. per episode
Where to watch
This title is not available anywhere yet. Click the button below to promote it and highlight it.
In a relentless race against time, a brilliant surgeon confronts life-and-death decisions, testing ethics and resilience in every operating room.
Episodes
Surgeons at Addenbrooke's Major Trauma Centre must operate on a single mum who has a severed spinal cord and a critically injured motorcyclist.
Surgeons 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.
Surgeons 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.
Addenbrooke'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.
Addenbrooke's surgeons perform life changing scoliosis surgery to straighten the spine of their 17-year-old patient but face the risk of causing paralysis.
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.