About this season
Filmed simultaneously with ambulance crews across the West Midlands, this series shows in real time the range of cases paramedics attend to.
Episodes (10)
1. Episode 1
Aired 2 February 2020 • 45 min
In Birmingham, paramedics treat a man having a heart attack. In Coventry, a woman mysteriously collapses. And in Worcester, a baby is struggling to breathe.
2. Episode 2
Aired 9 February 2020 • 45 min
West Midlands paramedics treat a man who has taken a heroin overdose, a 73-year-old man with slurred speech, and a toddler with breathing difficulties.
3. Episode 3
Aired 16 February 2020 • 45 min
Paramedics treat a man who's been found unconscious outside Birmingham Crown Court, a patient with severe headaches and a biker with a shattered leg. paramedics Mark McDonagh and Adi Ahmed help a 36-year-old with back pains and numbness in his leg.
4. Episode 4
Aired 23 February 2020 • 45 min
Paramedics treat a woman in a hotel who's about to give birth, a two-year-old boy who's struggling to breathe and an elderly man who's had a blow to the head and is bleeding heavily.
5. Episode 5
Aired 1 March 2020 • 45 min
Paramedics treat a woman with brittle bone disease who is in agony after a fall, a young man on the verge of a diabetic coma and a man who they have to detain under the Mental Capacity Act.
6. Episode 6
Aired 8 March 2020 • 45 min
Paramedics treat a 60-year-old patient with severe chest pains, a suspected drunk driver who's crashed his car, and an elderly man who's collapsed at home.
7. Episode 7
Aired 15 March 2020 • 45 min
Paramedics treat a woman with a suspected ectopic pregnancy, a man who has collapsed in his bedroom and a four-year-old boy with a rash and breathing problems.
8. Episode 8
Aired 22 March 2020 • 45 min
Paramedics treat a teenager with suspected meningitis, a man with diabetes and dangerously high blood sugar levels and a man with a suspected swollen artery.
9. Episode 9
Aired 29 March 2020 • 45 min
Paramedics treat a man with a crippling cluster headache, a woman suffering from the effects of alcohol withdrawal and a woman who has collapsed in a sauna.
10. Episode 10
Aired 5 April 2020 • 45 min
Paramedics treat a man who is fighting a life-threatening infection, and are called to a cardiac arrest in the street and a serious road traffic collision.