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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 5

January. 18,2023

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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Transforming patients' lives, at the cutting edge of medicine. Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing science - and the human body - to its limits.

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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

2018

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Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge perform complex procedures to save lives.

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Director

Brigid McFall

Cast

Shaun Dooley

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Dragonfly Film and Television Productions

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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Season 5 Full Episode Guide

Episode 6 - One Step at a Time

First Aired: February. 22,2023

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.

Episode 5 - Make or Break

First Aired: February. 15,2023

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.

Episode 4 - Danger Zone

First Aired: February. 08,2023

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.

Episode 3 - Back to Life

First Aired: February. 01,2023

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.

Episode 2 - Every Moment Counts

First Aired: January. 25,2023

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.

Episode 1 - Major Trauma - Back from the Brink

First Aired: January. 18,2023

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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