Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Season 2

6 episodes · Apr 9, 2019

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.

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  • S2E1

    One False Move

    Apr 9, 201955m

    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.

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  • S2E2

    Pushing the Boundaries

    Apr 16, 201955m

    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.

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  • S2E3

    A Risk Worth Taking?

    Apr 23, 201955m

    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.

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  • S2E4

    A New Beginning?

    Apr 30, 201955m

    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.

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  • S2E5

    Getting Better

    May 7, 201955m

    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.

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  • S2E6

    Every Second Counts

    May 14, 201955m

    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.

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