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Documentary series going beyond the theatre doors of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where surgeons push medical boundaries to the limits.
The award-winning series returns to show more pioneering work from some of the UK's top surgeons. A patient's body is drained of blood to remove life-threatening clots in her lungs.
Following marathon procedures at Addenbrooke's and Royal Papworth hospitals in Cambridge. Two surgeons and a team of 25 work for 18 hours to salvage a high-risk procedure.
Surgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke's hospitals perform a high-risk double lung transplant and complex neurosurgery, where a slip of a scalpel could cause paralysis.
Surgeons at Addenbrooke's and Royal Papworth hospitals face a dilemma. Do the high risks of an operation outweigh the risk of not treating their patients' serious conditions?
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