Surgeons: At the Edge of Life — Season 6
Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton perform complex procedures to transform and save their patients’ lives. But pushing the boundaries of medicine comes with great risk.
About this season
Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton perform complex procedures to transform and save their patients’ lives. But pushing the boundaries of medicine comes with great risk.
Episodes (6)
1. A Risk Worth Taking
Aired 27 March 2024 • 59 min
Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton take on high-risk surgery to remove life-threatening tumours.
2. All for One
Aired 3 April 2024 • 58 min
At University Hospital Southampton, surgeons perform life-saving surgery: taking out a patient’s eye and the tumour behind it and removing an 83-year-old man’s cancerous bladder.
3. Best Laid Plans
Aired 10 April 2024 • 58 min
Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton operating on two patients - removing rare tumours and correcting a patient’s bowed legs - must alter their plans to avoid catastrophe.
4. Hope
Aired 17 April 2024 • 58 min
Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton face complex surgery to reconstruct a patient’s jaw and remove a cancerous oesophagus.
5. We Can Rebuild You
Aired 24 April 2024 • 59 min
Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton perform high risk spinal surgery and attempt to repair a patient’s aorta - the body’s biggest artery - that’s threatening to burst.
6. Make or Break
Aired 1 May 2024 • 58 min
Three surgeons operate together on a motorcyclist at University Hospital Southampton’s major trauma centre after a crash leaves the patient with life-changing injuries.