An Hour to Save Your Life (2014)
Medical science series exploring the life or death decisions facing doctors in the first critical hour of emergency care, including 360 degree access to specialists at the scene and in hospitals.
📺 Seasons & Episodes
Season 13 episodes
Season 23 episodes
1. Between Life And Death
⏱ 60 minYoung cyclist Janina is in cardiac arrest after an accident, doctors fight to stop Tony from bleeding to death and 11-year-old Blake is left with a serious head injury after being hit by a car.
2. Surviving Birth
⏱ 60 minThis episode explores the life-or-death decisions facing doctors and midwives as they battle with neonatal emergencies. Based in a specialist maternity unit, it follows three babies, minute by minute, second by second, as frontline midwives and neonatologists fight to keep them alive through the critical first hour after birth.
3. Minutes From Death
⏱ 60 minThe cameras follow medics as they battle to save a young man who's been injured in a car crash.
Season 34 episodes
1. Episode 1
⏱ 60 minMoped rider Martin is fighting for his life after a collision with a lorry in London. Doctors are concerned have may have severe head and spinal injuries after the wheel of the lorry pressed against his head.
2. Episode 2
⏱ 60 minIn Bristol, Christy is hit by a car. Doctors suspect she may have bruising to the front and back of her brain and give her an emergency roadside anaesthetic. In hospital, her brain begins to swell rapidly and she undergoes an emergency operation.
3. Episode 3
⏱ 60 minFitness trainer Dusan is in critical condition after being hit by a bus. In hospital, he is declared a code red and receives immediate blood transfusions.
4. Episode 4
⏱ 60 minMichael collapses at work with a suspected cardiac arrest. Doctors must work out whether issues with his heart or a brain haemorrhage caused the collapse.
