Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Season 2

2019 · 6 episodes · 5h 30m in all

Surgeons perform extraordinarily complex and risky procedures to transform and save their patients’ lives. The pressure is intense as they push the boundaries of modern medicine.

Episodes

1. 1

   1. One False Move

   9 Apr 2019 · 55 min

   The series returns to the operating theatres of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. A neurosurgeon has to wake his patient up during an operation to remove his brain tumour.

2. 2

   2. Pushing the Boundaries

   16 Apr 2019 · 55 min

   Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon Tim Martin and his operating partner Sat Parmar are planning a marathon operation on former police officer Loretta. They believe they are the first UK surgeons to operate on the disease Loretta's suffering from.

3. 3

   3. A Risk Worth Taking?

   23 Apr 2019 · 55 min

   Surgeons at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital carry out radical operations to help change patients’ lives, including the hospital’s largest ever removal of excess tissue.

4. 4

   4. A New Beginning?

   30 Apr 2019 · 55 min

   At Birmingham Children’s Hospital, surgeons must transplant a kidney from a father to his two-year-old son, while a three-year-old girl needs a life-changing heart procedure.

5. 5

   5. Getting Better

   7 May 2019 · 55 min

   A surgeon performs the most complex operation in his field: removing a woman’s oesophagus and using her own stomach to replace it. Another team tackles a hard-to-reach tumour.

6. 6

   6. Every Second Counts

   14 May 2019 · 55 min

   Surgeons take on major trauma operations at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital. They have just minutes to save a woman with a life-threatening bleed on her brain.