Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Cameras return to the operating theatres of Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and reveal what goes on during procedures that test the limits of what is possible.

Maxillofacial surgeon Tim Martin operates on a woman with a disease so rare, he is thought to be the first in the UK to attempt the procedure.

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.

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.

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.

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.