Surgeons: At The Edge Of Life

Surgeons: At The Edge Of Life is a TV show on British national television from BBC2 with an average rating of 3.5 stars by TelevisionCatchUp.co.uk's visitors. We have 13 episodes of Surgeons: At The Edge Of Life in our archive. The first episode of Surgeons: At The Edge Of Life was broadcast in November, 2020. Did you miss an episode of Surgeons: At The Edge Of Life but don't you wan't that to happen in the future? Please set an alarm and add Surgeons: At The Edge Of Life to your favourites, so we can remind you by email when there's a new episode available to watch. For free!

Rating:3.5 of 5Total number of episodes:13
Last broadcast:14/11/2020 at 02:50

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2020

Series 3: Episode 4

14/11/2020 4.0 12 x

Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth hospitals face a dilemma. Do the high risks of an operation outweigh the risk of not treating their patients' serious conditions?

Series 3: Episode 3

20/10/2020 3.0 36 x

Surgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke’s hospitals perform a high-risk double lung transplant and complex neurosurgery, where a slip of a scalpel could cause paralysis.

Series 3: Episode 2

13/10/2020 3.0 30 x

Following marathon procedures at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth hospitals in Cambridge. Two surgeons and a team of 25 work for 18 hours to salvage a high-risk procedure.

Series 3: Episode 1

06/10/2020 2.0 64 x

The award-winning series returns to show more pioneering work from some of the UK’s top surgeons. A patient’s body is drained of blood to remove life-threatening clots in her lungs

Episodes 2019

Series 2: 6. Every Second Counts...

14/05/2019 4.0 127 x

Surgeons 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.

Series 2: 5. Getting Better

07/05/2019 3.0 53 x

A 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.

Series 2: 4. A New Beginning?

30/04/2019 4.0 65 x

At 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.

Series 2: 3. A Risk Worth Taking?...

23/04/2019 3.3 91 x

Surgeons 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.

Series 2: 2. Pushing The Boundaries...

16/04/2019 4.0 65 x

Maxillofacial surgeon Tim Martin operates on a woman with a disease so rare, he is thought to be the first in the UK to attempt the procedure.

Series 2: 1. One False Move

09/04/2019 4.7 148 x

The 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.