Saving Lives in Cardiff

Series 1

6 episodes · Aug 20, 2024

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

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  • Episode 1
    S1E1

    Episode 1

    Aug 20, 202458m

    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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  • Episode 2
    S1E2

    Episode 2

    Aug 27, 202458m

    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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  • Episode 3
    S1E3

    Episode 3

    Sep 3, 202459m

    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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  • Episode 4
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    Episode 4

    Sep 10, 202459m

    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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  • Episode 5
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    Episode 5

    Sep 17, 202458m

    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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  • Episode 6
    S1E6

    Episode 6

    Sep 24, 202458m

    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.'

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