Trauma Doctors

Documentary following the work of specialist medics. Dr Tony Joy and paramedic Bill Leaning attend to a 45-year-old man suffering a heart attack on a bus who is seconds away from his heart stopping completely. Orthopaedic surgeon Pete Bates leads a team attempting to rebuild a 44-year-old builder's pelvis, shattered in a 20ft fall. However, it will be months until doctors know if the man will be able to walk again unassisted

Documentary following the work of specialist medics. London's Air Ambulance is on the scene minutes after an 88-year-old woman is hit by a heavy goods vehicle. Dr Gareth Davies and paramedic Tony Montebello administer a roadside blood transfusion, but as she suffered life-threatening injuries, they must get her into theatre quickly. Trauma doctor Tony Joy worries about a builder who was under a wall when it collapsed, and a window cleaner who fell 15ft from his ladder is airlifted to hospital to have the full extent of his injuries established.

A doctor and paramedic rush to the aid of a 35-year-old woman who has collapsed in the street. Her heart has stopped and she is clinically dead, so they perform vital CPR for almost an hour in an attempt to save her. Medics also treat a 47-year-old man whose head has been crushed by a fallen tree, while London's Air Ambulance team is scrambled to a 55-year-old security driver who has been stabbed in the neck and a road traffic accident in which an 87-year-old man has been hit by a car.

The emergency medics rush into action once more. A doctor and paramedic rush to the aid of 57-year-old Sean, who has a serious head injury after falling down the stairs in a pub. The London Air Ambulance team is called to 45-year-old caterer George, who has been stabbed in the back and is deteriorating fast, while more emergency teams rush to help a five-year old with a severe leg injury and a 19-year-old hit by a car.

A doctor rushes to the scene of a road accident where a 23-year-old driver is trapped in his car which has rolled over into a ditch. The air ambulance is dispatched to a shopkeeper who has fallen eight feet onto concrete, and the medics worry the patient – who landed head-first – may have sustained a brain injury. Outside the M25, another emergency doctor is concerned that a 27-year-old woman may have damaged her spinal cord after a horse riding accident, and later treats a motorcyclist who has crashed into the central reservation.

As night falls over London, Dr Claire Park and paramedic David Gordedo are called to two separate stabbings – while back at the Royal London, a young mother arrives with a knife wound to her knee. She is losing blood fast, so Dr Simon Walsh performs a transfusion, buying enough time before she is rushed into theatre so the trauma surgeon can operate in an attempt to repair her severed artery and save her leg. Elsewhere, the air ambulance crew rushes to treat a motorcyclist who sustained a head injury after being hit by two cars.