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A Risk Worth Taking?

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Apr 23, 2019

Surgeons at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in England take on radical operations to help change patients’ lives, including their largest-ever removal of excess tissue.

Season 2, 6 episodes

One False Move,

A patient needs to be awake and talking during brain surgery so his neurosurgeon can remove as much of his tumour as possible, and a cardiac surgeon takes on a risky aorta repair.

Pushing The Boundaries,

Maxillofacial surgeon Tim Martin operates on a woman with a disease so rare, he’s thought to be the first in the UK to attempt the procedure.

A Risk Worth Taking?,

Surgeons at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in England take on radical operations to help change patients’ lives, including their largest-ever removal of excess tissue.

A New Beginning?,

At Birmingham Children’s Hospital in England, surgeons must transplant a kidney from a father to his two-year-old son, while a young girl needs a life-changing heart procedure

Getting 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

Every 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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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

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Surgeons perform extraordinarily complex and risky procedures, to transform and save their patients’ lives. The pressure is intense as they push the boundaries of modern medicine.

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