Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton take on high-risk surgery to remove life-threatening tumours.

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.

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.

Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton face complex surgery to reconstruct a patient’s jaw and remove a cancerous oesophagus.

Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton perform high risk spinal surgery and attempt to repair a patient’s aorta - the body’s biggest artery - that is threatening to burst.

Three surgeons operate together on a motorcyclist at University Hospital Southampton’s major trauma centre after a crash leaves the patient with life-changing injuries.