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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life : Season 2
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Air date: 09 Apr '19 - 6 episodesDocumentary series going beyond the theatre doors of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where surgeons push medical boundaries to the limits.
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List of Episodes (6)
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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (2018)
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1. One False Move
09 Apr '19The series returns to the operating theatres of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. A neurosurgeon has to wake his patient up during an operation to remove his brain tumour.
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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (2018)
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2. Pushing the Boundaries
16 Apr '19Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon Tim Martin and his operating partner Sat Parmar are planning a marathon operation on former police officer Loretta. They believe they are the first UK surgeons to operate on the disease Loretta's suffering from.
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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (2018)
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3. A Risk Worth Taking?
23 Apr '19Surgeons at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital carry out radical operations to help change patients’ lives, including the hospital’s largest ever removal of excess tissue.
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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (2018)
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4. A New Beginning?
30 Apr '19At Birmingham Children’s Hospital, surgeons must transplant a kidney from a father to his two-year-old son, while a three-year-old girl needs a life-changing heart procedure.
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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (2018)
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5. Getting Better
07 May '19A surgeon performs the most complex operation in his field: removing a woman’s oesophagus and using her own stomach to replace it. Another team tackles a hard-to-reach tumour.
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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (2018)
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6. Every Second Counts
14 May '19Surgeons take on major trauma operations at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital. They have just minutes to save a woman with a life-threatening bleed on her brain.
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