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Documentary series going beyond the theatre doors of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where surgeons push medical boundaries to the limits.

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    Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 1 Episode 1 - The Longest Day
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    #1 - The Longest Day

    S1:E1

    Specialist maxillofacial surgeons Tim Martin and Sat Parmar prepare for a marathon operation on 53-year-old Teresa. Four weeks ago, Teresa was diagnosed with a fast-growing cancerous tumour in her face and she will die within weeks unless it is removed.

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  2. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 1 Episode 2 - Last Chance Saloon
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    #2 - Last Chance Saloon

    S1:E2

    The surgeons take on unpredictable, high risk operations. They need to stop a patient's heart, chill his body and drain out all his blood before they can operate to save his life.

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  3. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 1 Episode 3 - The Pioneers
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    #3 - The Pioneers

    S1:E3

    The extraordinary stories of clinical trials being carried out at the surgical unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

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  4. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 2 Episode 1 - One False Move
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    #4 - One False Move

    S2:E1

    The series returns to the operating theatres of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. A neurosurgeon has to wake his patient up during an operation to remove his brain tumour.

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  5. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 2 Episode 2 - Pushing the Boundaries
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    #5 - Pushing the Boundaries

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    Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon Tim Martin and his operating partner Sat Parmar are planning a marathon operation on former police officer Loretta. They believe they are the first UK surgeons to operate on the disease Loretta's suffering from.

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  6. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 2 Episode 3 - A Risk Worth Taking?
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    #6 - A Risk Worth Taking?

    S2:E3

    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.

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  7. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 2 Episode 4 - A New Beginning?
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    #7 - A New Beginning?

    S2:E4

    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.

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  8. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 2 Episode 5 - Getting Better
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    #8 - Getting Better

    S2:E5

    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.

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  9. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 2 Episode 6 - Every Second Counts
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    #9 - Every Second Counts

    S2:E6

    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.

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  10. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 3 Episode 1 - The Pioneers
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    #10 - The Pioneers

    S3:E1

    David Jenkins, a world-leading surgeon at Royal Papworth, performs one of surgery's most technically demanding, and extraordinary, operations. Called a pulmonary endarterectomy (PTE), no other hospital in the UK offers this procedure.

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  11. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 3 Episode 2 - Marathon Day
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    #11 - Marathon Day

    S3:E2

    Addenbrooke's and Royal Papworth hospitals in Cambridge are renowned for the expertise of their surgical staff. At both centres, surgeons undertake some of the most complex operations in the world, where technical skill is paramount.

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  12. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 3 Episode 3 - No Room for Error
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    #12 - No Room for Error

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    Surgeons Marius Berman and Pedro Catarino take on one of the most difficult transplant procedures at Royal Papworth: the double lung transplant. With donor organs in such short supply, there is even more pressure to execute the operation perfectly.

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  13. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 3 Episode 4 - The Surgeon's Dilemma
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    #13 - The Surgeon's Dilemma

    S3:E4

    Surgeons have to balance the considerable risks of a procedure against the risks of not treating their patients' conditions at all. Maureen has an enlarged aorta which could be fatal if it bursts, but the operation to fix it is also very high risk.

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  14. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 4 Episode 1 - Worth the Risk
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    #14 - Worth the Risk

    S4:E1

    Operations where even a small mistake is catastrophic. Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth hospitals remove a life-threatening tumour and repair a young patient’s aorta.

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  15. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 4 Episode 2 - Total Dedication
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    #15 - Total Dedication

    S4:E2

    Operations to transform patients’ lives. Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth take on a high-risk spine procedure and perform open heart surgery on an 80-year-old patient.

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  16. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 4 Episode 3 - Putting It Back Together Again
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    #16 - Putting It Back Together Again

    S4:E3

    Surgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke's hospitals must put their patients back together again after removing life-threatening lung and facial tumours.

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  17. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 4 Episode 4 - Courage
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    #17 - Courage

    S4:E4

    Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital take on life changing surgery that takes two specialist surgeons two days to perform and involves removing all the organs in the patient’s pelvis.

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  18. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 4 Episode 5 - Quality of Life
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    #18 - Quality of Life

    S4:E5

    Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital perform a complex procedure to help a patient swallow again and remove a tumour that is threatening a patient’s vision.

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  19. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 4 Episode 6 - Major Trauma - #Surgeons
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    #19 - Major Trauma - #Surgeons

    S4:E6

    Addenbrooke’s major trauma team and surgeons treat some of the country's most critically injured patients. Multiple teams must decide whether a man's damaged arm can be saved.

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  20. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 5 Episode 1 - Major Trauma - Back from the Brink
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    #20 - Major Trauma - Back from the Brink

    S5:E1

    Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Major Trauma Centre must operate on a single mum who has a severed spinal cord and a critically injured motorcyclist.

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  21. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 5 Episode 2 - Every Moment Counts
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    #21 - Every Moment Counts

    S5:E2

    Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital perform brain surgery on a patient who is awake and attempt to repair a section of the body’s biggest blood vessel that’s threatening to burst.

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  22. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 5 Episode 3 - Back to Life
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    #22 - Back to Life

    S5:E3

    Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s operate against the clock to remove a kidney from a husband and transplant it into his wife who is in end stage kidney failure.

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  23. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 5 Episode 4 - Danger Zone
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    #23 - Danger Zone

    S5:E4

    Addenbrooke’s surgeons take on two high-risk operations; surgery to excise tumours near the spinal cord and a procedure to remove a dangerous mass off the body’s largest vein.

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  24. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 5 Episode 5 - Make or Break
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    #24 - Make or Break

    S5:E5

    Addenbrooke’s surgeons perform life changing scoliosis surgery to straighten the spine of their 17-year-old patient but face the risk of causing paralysis.

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  25. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 5 Episode 6 - One Step at a Time
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    #25 - One Step at a Time

    S5:E6

    Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Major Trauma Centre must operate on two road accident victims who have suffered life-changing injuries so serious they could lead to an amputation.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Longest Day" is the best rated episode of "Surgeons: At the Edge of Life". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/8/2018. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Last Chance Saloon".