Surgeons: At the Edge of Life — Season 5
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.
About this season
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.
Episodes (6)
1. Major Trauma - Back from the Brink
Aired 18 January 2023 • 59 min
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Major Trauma Centre must operate on a single mum who has a severed spinal cord and a critically injured motorcyclist.
2. Every Moment Counts
Aired 25 January 2023 • 59 min
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.
3. Back to Life
Aired 1 February 2023 • 58 min
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.
4. Danger Zone
Aired 8 February 2023 • 59 min
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.
5. Make or Break
Aired 15 February 2023 • 58 min
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.
6. One Step at a Time
Aired 22 February 2023 • 58 min
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.