An Hour to Save Your Life

In this episode, young 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.

This 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.

Baby Alyssia is born ten weeks premature, baby Harley's heart rate drops dangerously low during labour, and baby Evelyn is diagnosed with a life-threatening condition in the womb.

In this episode, medics fight to save the lives of a young man who's been critically injured in a car crash, a cyclist involved in a collision with a lorry and a young woman whose heart has stopped after a sudden collapse in the street.