Surgeons:At the Edge of Life
Documentary series going beyond the theatre doors of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where surgeons push medical boundaries to the limits.
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 0h 55m
Release: 2018
Rating: 7.0
Season 1 - Surgeons:At the Edge of Life
2018-01-08
"Specialist maxillofacial surgeons Tim Martin and Sat Parmar prepare for a marathon operation on 53-year-old Teresa. Four weeks ago, Teresa was diagnosed with a fast-growing cancerous tumour in her face and she will die within weeks unless it is removed."
2018-01-15
"The surgeons take on unpredictable, high risk operations. They need to stop a patient's heart, chill his body and drain out all his blood before they can operate to save his life."
2018-01-22
"The extraordinary stories of clinical trials being carried out at the surgical unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham."
Season 2 - Surgeons:At the Edge of Life
2019-04-09
"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."
2019-04-16
"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."
2019-04-23
"Surgeons at Birmingham\u2019s Queen Elizabeth Hospital carry out radical operations to help change patients\u2019 lives, including the hospital\u2019s largest ever removal of excess tissue."
2019-04-30
"At Birmingham Children\u2019s 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."
2019-05-07
"A surgeon performs the most complex operation in his field: removing a woman\u2019s oesophagus and using her own stomach to replace it. Another team tackles a hard-to-reach tumour."
2019-05-14
"Surgeons take on major trauma operations at Birmingham\u2019s Queen Elizabeth Hospital. They have just minutes to save a woman with a life-threatening bleed on her brain."
Season 3 - Surgeons:At the Edge of Life
2020-10-27
"Surgeons have to balance the considerable risks of a procedure against the risks of not treating their patients' conditions at all. Maureen has an enlarged aorta which could be fatal if it bursts, but the operation to fix it is also very high risk."
Season 4 - Surgeons:At the Edge of Life
2021-11-11
"Operations where even a small mistake is catastrophic. Surgeons at Addenbrooke\u2019s and Royal Papworth hospitals remove a life-threatening tumour and repair a young patient\u2019s aorta."
2021-11-18
"Operations to transform patients\u2019 lives. Surgeons at Addenbrooke\u2019s and Royal Papworth take on a high-risk spine procedure and perform open heart surgery on an 80-year-old patient."
2021-11-25
"Surgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke's hospitals must put their patients back together again after removing life-threatening lung and facial tumours."
2021-12-02
"Surgeons at Addenbrooke\u2019s Hospital take on life changing surgery that takes two specialist surgeons two days to perform and involves removing all the organs in the patient\u2019s pelvis."
2021-12-09
"Surgeons at Addenbrooke\u2019s Hospital perform a complex procedure to help a patient swallow again and remove a tumour that is threatening a patient\u2019s vision."
2021-12-16
"Addenbrooke\u2019s major trauma team and surgeons treat some of the country's most critically injured patients. Multiple teams must decide whether a man's damaged arm can be saved."
Season 5 - Surgeons:At the Edge of Life
Season 6 - Surgeons:At the Edge of Life
2024-03-27
"Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton take on high-risk surgery to remove life-threatening tumours."
2024-04-03
"At University Hospital Southampton, surgeons perform life-saving surgery: taking out a patient\u2019s eye and the tumour behind it and removing an 83-year-old man\u2019s cancerous bladder."
2024-04-10
"Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton operating on two patients - removing rare tumours and correcting a patient\u2019s bowed legs - must alter their plans to avoid catastrophe."
2024-04-17
"Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton face complex surgery to reconstruct a patient\u2019s jaw and remove a cancerous oesophagus."
2024-04-24
"Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton perform high risk spinal surgery and attempt to repair a patient\u2019s aorta - the body\u2019s biggest artery - that\u2019s threatening to burst."
2024-05-01
"Three surgeons operate together on a motorcyclist at University Hospital Southampton\u2019s major trauma centre after a crash leaves the patient with life-changing injuries."
Season 7 - Surgeons:At the Edge of Life
2025-02-26
"Surgeons attempt a rare and high-risk transplant to transform their 21-year-old patient\u2019s life, and perform a complex kidney procedure vital for another patient\u2019s survival."