An Hour to Save Your Life

Surviving Birth (2x2)

Fecha de emisión: Jun 09, 2015

Medical science series exploring the life or death decisions facing doctors in the first critical hour of emergency care. This episode explores the life-or-death decisions facing doctors and midwives as they battle with neonatal emergencies. Based in a specialist maternity unit, it follows three babies, minute by minute, second by second, as frontline midwives and neonatologists fight to keep them alive through the critical first hour after birth. Baby Alyssia is born ten weeks premature, baby Harley's heart rate drops dangerously low during labour, and baby Evelyn is diagnosed with a life-threatening condition in the womb. womb.