Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Season 5

6 episodes · Jan 18, 2023

Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge perform complex procedures to save lives. But this comes with great risk, and the surgeons bear the ultimate responsibility.

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  • S5E1

    Major Trauma - Back from the Brink

    Jan 18, 202359m

    Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Major Trauma Centre must operate on a single mum who has a severed spinal cord and a critically injured motorcyclist.

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  • S5E2

    Every Moment Counts

    Jan 25, 202359m

    Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital perform brain surgery on a patient who is awake and attempt to repair a section of the body’s biggest blood vessel that’s threatening to burst.

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  • S5E3

    Back to Life

    Feb 1, 202358m

    Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s operate against the clock to remove a kidney from a husband and transplant it into his wife who is in end stage kidney failure.

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  • S5E4

    Danger Zone

    Feb 8, 202359m

    Addenbrooke’s surgeons take on two high-risk operations; surgery to excise tumours near the spinal cord and a procedure to remove a dangerous mass off the body’s largest vein.

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  • S5E5

    Make or Break

    Feb 15, 202358m

    Addenbrooke’s surgeons perform life changing scoliosis surgery to straighten the spine of their 17-year-old patient but face the risk of causing paralysis.

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  • S5E6

    One Step at a Time

    Feb 22, 202358m

    Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Major Trauma Centre must operate on two road accident victims who have suffered life-changing injuries so serious they could lead to an amputation.

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