Name: 999: Critical Condition
Uploaded: 2019-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Description: With unprecedented access to a major trauma hospital, episodes follow patients and staff as they make heart breaking decisions and confront the difficult realities of emergency medicine.

With unprecedented access to a major trauma hospital, episodes follow patients and staff as they make heart breaking decisions and confront the difficult realities of emergency medicine.

Geoff has an excruciating head pain that has left him semi-conscious. Meanwhile Alan, is rushed into A&E after collapsing. Every second counts as the team struggle to keep them alive.

You are fighting against the clock

Gary is admitted with a life-threatening condition where the main artery in the body, may rupture at any time. Requiring urgent surgery, he says goodbye to his family for what may be the last time.

It's been a long night to say the least'

John arrives after being stabbed numerous times in his abdomen and needs emergency surgery. But even if he survives, the operation will leave him with lifelong complications.

Dealing with the consequences'

David is rushed in with life threatening injuries after being attacked with a machete. His deep neck wounds are shocking. As they fight to stabilise him, every moment counts in his fight for life

My job is to stop that patient dying'

Time is of the essence in this episode with each critically ill patient’s life hanging in the balance. Will staff be able to act fast enough to save them?

Every second counts from the moment they come in

In this episode Royal Stoke’s doctors face exceptionally challenging cases: Joanna, a mother-of-one suffers a ruptured brain aneurism, whilst a 17-year-old girl is critically injured in a car crash.

For every rule there are exceptions

Ian is rushed in with a cardiac arrest. Staff worry that he has suffered lasting brain damage. Meanwhile a man arrives bleeding so heavily that he risks losing his entire circulatory system.

There's always an element of uncertainty

38-year-old Lesley’s heart suddenly stops while driving to work on the M6 and staff battle to bring her back to life. Meanwhile an elderly lady has been hit by a motor bike – can staff save her leg?

When you're that close to death, every second counts

A victim of a frenzied stabbing and a young mum with a stroke who is paralysed down one side and can’t speak, both come through the Emergency Department this week.

It's a whole world of unknown

Samantha collapses at an adventure park unable to move or talk, whilst Huw is driving when he has a heart attack.

Totally out of the blue

The clock is ticking as doctors have seconds to make the right choices for their patients. A life threatening aneurism and a potentially fatal fall have staff racing against time to help the patients.

On A Knife Edge

A road traffic accident and a second heart attack in two weeks for a relatively young man, concern staff in this, the last episode in the series.

999: Critical Condition

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