Surgeons: At the Edge of Life
(2018)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 6
The Best Laid Plans
Episode 3 - 4-10-2024
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.
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All for One
Episode 2 - 4-03-2024
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.
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A Risk Worthing Taking
Episode 1 - 3-27-2024
Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton take on high-risk surgery to remove life-threatening tumours.
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Season 5
One Step at a Time
Episode 6 - 2-22-2023
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.
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Make or Break
Episode 5 - 2-15-2023
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.
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Danger Zone
Episode 4 - 2-08-2023
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.
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Back to Life
Episode 3 - 2-01-2023
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.
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Every Moment Counts
Episode 2 - 1-25-2023
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.
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Major Trauma - Back from the Brink
Episode 1 - 1-18-2023
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Major Trauma Centre must operate on a single mum who has a severed spinal cord and a critically injured motorcyclist.
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Season 4
Surgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke’s hospitals perform complex procedures to save lives. But this comes with great risk and the surgeons bear the ultimate responsibility.Episode 6
12-16-2021
Addenbrooke’s major trauma team and surgeons treat some of the country's most critically injured patients. Multiple teams must decide whether a man's damaged arm can be saved.
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Episode 5
12-09-2021
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital perform a complex procedure to help a patient swallow again and remove a tumour that is threatening a patient’s vision.
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Episode 4
12-02-2021
Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital take on life changing surgery that takes two specialist surgeons two days to perform and involves removing all the organs in the patient’s pelvis.
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Episode 3
11-25-2021
Surgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke's hospitals must put their patients back together again after removing life-threatening lung and facial tumours.
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Episode 2
11-18-2021
Operations to transform patients’ lives. Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth take on a high-risk spine procedure and perform open heart surgery on an 80-year-old patient.
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Episode 1
11-11-2021
59m
Operations where even a small mistake is catastrophic. Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth hospitals remove a life-threatening tumour and repair a young patient’s aorta.
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Season 3
Episode 4
10-27-2020
59m
Surgeons have to balance the considerable risks of a procedure against the risks of not treating their patients' conditions at all. Maureen has an enlarged aorta which could be fatal if it bursts, but the operation to fix it is also very high risk.
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Episode 3
10-20-2020
59m
Surgeons Marius Berman and Pedro Catarino take on one of the most difficult transplant procedures at Royal Papworth: the double lung transplant. With donor organs in such short supply, there is even more pressure to execute the operation perfectly.
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Episode 2
10-13-2020
59m
Addenbrooke's and Royal Papworth hospitals in Cambridge are renowned for the expertise of their surgical staff. At both centres, surgeons undertake some of the most complex operations in the world, where technical skill is paramount.
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Episode 1
10-06-2020
1h 0m
David Jenkins, a world-leading surgeon at Royal Papworth, performs one of surgery's most technically demanding, and extraordinary, operations. Called a pulmonary endarterectomy (PTE), no other hospital in the UK offers this procedure.
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Season 2
Every Second Counts
Episode 6 - 5-14-2019
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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Getting Better
Episode 5 - 5-07-2019
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.
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A New Beginning?
Episode 4 - 4-30-2019
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.
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A Risk Worth Taking?
Episode 3 - 4-23-2019
59m
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.
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Pushing the Boundaries
Episode 2 - 4-16-2019
59m
Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon Tim Martin and his operating partner Sat Parmar are planning a marathon operation on former police officer Loretta. They believe they are the first UK surgeons to operate on the disease Loretta's suffering from.
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One False Move
Episode 1 - 4-09-2019
59m
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.
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Season 1
Three-part documentary following surgeons, theatre staff and patients of the surgical unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where 700 operations are carried out every week.The Pioneers
Episode 3 - 1-22-2018
59m
The extraordinary stories of clinical trials being carried out at the surgical unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
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Last Chance Saloon
Episode 2 - 1-15-2018
59m
The surgeons take on unpredictable, high risk operations. They need to stop a patient's heart, chill his body and drain out all his blood before they can operate to save his life.
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The Longest Day
Episode 1 - 1-08-2018
59m
Specialist maxillofacial surgeons Tim Martin and Sat Parmar prepare for a marathon operation on 53-year-old Teresa. Four weeks ago, Teresa was diagnosed with a fast-growing cancerous tumour in her face and she will die within weeks unless it is removed.
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One False Move
Episode 1 - 4-09-2019
59m
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.
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Last Chance Saloon
Episode 2 - 1-15-2018
59m
The surgeons take on unpredictable, high risk operations. They need to stop a patient's heart, chill his body and drain out all his blood before they can operate to save his life.
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The Pioneers
Episode 3 - 1-22-2018
59m
The extraordinary stories of clinical trials being carried out at the surgical unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
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The Longest Day
Episode 1 - 1-08-2018
59m
Specialist maxillofacial surgeons Tim Martin and Sat Parmar prepare for a marathon operation on 53-year-old Teresa. Four weeks ago, Teresa was diagnosed with a fast-growing cancerous tumour in her face and she will die within weeks unless it is removed.
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