Surgeons: At the Edge of Life
Documentary series going beyond the theatre doors of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where surgeons push medical boundaries to the limits.
Episodes
One patient’s rare penis cancer requires a partial amputation, and another patient with severe endometriosis must have a huge cyst and a damaged kidney removed.
Surgeons face a difficult dilemma in the middle of a life-saving bile duct cancer operation. A chest sarcoma proves more challenging than expected, with no room for error.
A surgeon must remove part of his patient’s tongue and reconstruct it to save her from an aggressive cancer, and surgeons perform a rare simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant.
Surgeons drain all of their patient’s blood from his body to replace damaged arteries. A patient’s fertility is at risk without a complex operation to remove diseased bowel.
A surgeon must remove his patient’s voice box to save his life, while another takes on a life-changing procedure for a patient with a rare auto-immune condition.
A surgeon has one chance to tackle a life-threatening tumour in his patient’s liver and diaphragm. A neurosurgeon must save her patient from paralysis with unerring precision.
