Series 2 (2019)
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Episodes 6
One False Move
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.
Read MorePushing The Boundaries
Maxillofacial surgeon Tim Martin operates on a woman with a disease so rare, he is thought to be the first in the UK to attempt the procedure.
Read MoreA Risk Worth Taking?
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.
Read MoreA New Beginning?
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.
Read MoreGetting Better
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.
Read MoreEvery Second Counts
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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