ICU A Matter of Life or Death

Season 1, Episode 1 (1x1)

Udgivelsesdato: Feb 03, 2010

This week on ICU: A Matter of Life or Death, Jacob finds himself in The Alfred Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit with no less than 20 separate injuries after his car collided with a truck. Lacerations to his liver were so bad that half of it had to be removed. The Alfred’s doctors warned his family that Jacob had less than a five-per-cent chance of surviving. While undergoing surgery on a broken leg, he required blood transfusions amounting to three times his entire blood volume. It’s touch and go but Jacob’s family is at his bed constantly, willing him to live. For 3 years Rachael has been barely able to walk because of a debilitating lung condition. Now, after 15 months on the lung transplant waiting list, Rachael’s faulty lungs are removed and she receives two new ones. Watch Rachael as she struggles to take her first breath with her new lungs and learns to trust they will keep on working. Ray sustained 15 per cent burns to his body when a gas heater exploded next to him. He’s rushed to the ICU to undergo immediate skin grafts, but doctors are also worried about swelling in his lungs and airways.