Saving Lives in Cardiff

Series 1

2024 · 6 episodes · 5h 50m in all · 10.0/10

Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make.

Episodes

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   1. Episode 1

   20 Aug 2024 · 58 min · 10.0/10

   At Wales’s biggest hospital, neurosurgeon George Eralil operates on a 19-year-old with a rare brain tumour, and vascular consultant Lewis Meecham faces a wave of emergency cases.

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   2. Episode 2

   27 Aug 2024 · 58 min · 10.0/10

   Paediatric surgeon Oliver Jackson fights to ensure surgery for a 17-week-old baby triplet goes ahead. And a man who was the victim of an attack has an operation to restore his sight.

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   3. Episode 3

   3 Sept 2024 · 59 min · 10.0/10

   Two maxillofacial surgeons team up to rebuilds a 19-year-old’s face after removing a tumour, and consultant Aarti Sharma fights to give a mother with incurable cancer more time with her four children.

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   4. Episode 4

   10 Sept 2024 · 59 min · 10.0/10

   Eye surgeon Magdalena Popiela fights to save a woman’s sight, and for orthopaedic surgeon Clare Carpenter, a wave of emergencies add pressure to an already full day of surgery.

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   5. Episode 5

   17 Sept 2024 · 58 min · 10.0/10

   Paediatric surgeon Selena Curkovic is determined to make a life-changing operation happen for an eight-year-old boy, and a spinal surgeon must decide which of two patients gets surgery first.

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   6. Episode 6

   24 Sept 2024 · 58 min · 10.0/10

   A breast cancer patient and her surgeon of nine years hope a third operation means she can live life fully again, and three surgeons remove a tumour that is a 'ticking time-bomb.'