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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Season 6

2024 · 6 episodes

Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton perform complex procedures to transform and save their patients’ lives. But pushing the boundaries of medicine comes with great risk.

  1. 1. A Risk Worth Taking

    2024-03-27 · 59m

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

  2. 2. All for One

    2024-04-03 · 58m

    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.

  3. 3. Best Laid Plans

    2024-04-10 · 58m

    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.

  4. 4. Hope

    2024-04-17 · 58m

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

  5. 5. We Can Rebuild You

    2024-04-24 · 59m

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

  6. 6. Make or Break

    2024-05-01 · 58m

    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.

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