Steven Todd
Director
Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (2018)
Season 2
Surgeons perform extraordinarily complex and risky procedures to transform and save their patients’ lives. The pressure is intense as they push the boundaries of modern medicine.
Released Jan. 8, 2018
Episode 58 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
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Watch Providers: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Production Companies: Dragonfly Film and Television Productions
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English,
Spanish,
Portuguese
S2E1 - One False Move
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.
April 9, 2019, midnight
S2E2 - Pushing the Boundaries
Consultant 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.
April 16, 2019, midnight
S2E3 - A Risk Worth Taking?
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.
April 23, 2019, midnight
S2E4 - A New Beginning?
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.
April 30, 2019, midnight
S2E5 - Getting Better
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.
May 7, 2019, midnight
S2E6 - Every Second Counts
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.
May 14, 2019, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 58 min.
Season Runtime: 58 min.
Released: Jan. 8, 2018
Last Air Date: April 2, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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