Cameras follow the Critical Care and Air Ambulance Response teams, faced with only the highest priority cases, they cover everything from car crashes and stabbings to cardiac arrests and crushing injuries.
A West Midlands critical care team is called to a road traffic accident in which a 13-year-old boy has been knocked over on the way to school, and now has blood coming out of one ear.
Critical care paramedic Rob and doctor Adam fight to save the life of a boy who has been stabbed in the street. The 16-year-old has been knifed in the neck, has lost a significant amount of blood and is struggling to breathe. Elsewhere, Tom Waters is dispatched to 30-year-old bricklayer Daniel, who has sliced his arm with a power saw. He was cutting timber on a workbench using an angle grinder with a circular blade when he lost control and it sliced through his right hand.
Critical care paramedic Pete Edwards and the Midlands Air Ambulance Trauma Team are dispatched to give lifesaving treatment to a 21-year-old motorcyclist who has been thrown off his bike, with his helmet also coming off in the impact. Elsewhere, Rob Davis battles to save the life of an 80-year-old who is in cardiac arrest on his driveway, and the team is called to a man who has collapsed with a suspected heart attack and is showing symptoms of Covid-19.
Dr Ben Taylor and critical care paramedic Aiden Brown work with the fire and ambulance services to rescue an 11-year-old boy trapped in the wreckage of a car he was a passenger in. After a nasty tackle on the rugby pitch, 40- year-old Dave is left with a horrific break to his foot and critical care paramedic Pete Edwards must manually realign the bones as quickly as possible, but it's an excruciating procedure
A car driver is seriously injured and the paramedics perform life-saving treatment and put him into an induced coma at the roadside, while Critical care paramedics are dispatched to a nightclub where multiple stabbings have taken place and one man needs urgent hospital treatment
A desperate 999 call comes in from a female passenger who has been seriously injured after being thrown out of a car when it careered off the road and smashed into the trees. Her three friends are still trapped inside the vehicle and it is major incident requiring the skill of the critical care paramedics and the police and fire services
Critical Care Paramedic Fay is despatched to the scene of a serious motorbike crash and Ambulance control receive an emergency call reporting a man collapsed in a churchyard.
A driver is trapped in his car after it careered out of control, smashing into a wall before flipping sideways onto a driveway. Dr Polly Haywood and critical care paramedic Sarah Folley are sent to the scene. An 81-year-old man has fallen off a roof. A cyclist is seriously injured after a collision with a car.
Paramedic Jack attends the scene of a double stabbing in Birmingham, where two neighbours have been attacked. Plus, Ambulance Control receive an emergency call reporting a man trapped under a bus
A man who falls from a ladder needs urgent care; paramedics help after a car crash.
A man trapped in a van; a 64yr old man goes into cardiac arrest..
Specialist emergency response teams tackle multiple stabbings after a house party.
A pensioner is found face down in a pond and a woman is hit by a car.
An e-scooter collides with a car.
A driver in an accident is left with possible internal bleeding; unconscious man may have overdosed on heroin; a child has a seizure; an old woman falls.
A mother calls 999 to say her three-year-old child has stopped breathing. As the family lives in a rural location close to the Welsh border, the Midlands Air Ambulance is required
A serious motorbike crash leaves an 18-year-old with a broken thigh bone.
A man is trapped in his car, and potentially injured, after a major accident.
Paramedic arrives to help two stabbing victims while fighting still rages nearby.
Midlands Air Ambulance and the critical care team are sent to save a tree surgeon who has impaled himself after falling 12 feet onto metal railings, possibly paralysing himself.
A car wash employee is stabbed during an argument, a builder falls 12 feet onto concrete from the roof of a farm building, and a six-year-old is hit by a car while leaving school.
A man is stabbed multiple times, requiring urgent attention and treatment.
A workplace accident leaves a man with a laceration exposing his rib cage, and the critical care team respond to reports of a group of women being attacked with machetes.
An HGV crashes into a railway bridge on the M6 motorway. With reports of a high-speed collision, the Midlands Air Ambulance is scrambled from RAF Cosford.
In this episode, a man is fighting for his life after a cardiac arrest. Labourer Aaron was attacked outside his home, and the 32-year-old has been stabbed in the neck and abdomen. A gunman is reported to be on the loose at a crowded house party. With reports of at least one person dead, Dr Richard Fawcett and critical care paramedic Dan Fletcher are dispatched. When 12-year-old Benjamin was cycling home from school, he collided with a car and was thrown against the windscreen.
In this episode, two men are injured after an explosion at a firm that specialises in the disposal of hazardous waste. Critical care paramedic Jack Lewis and paramedic Sam Collisson are called to Wolverhampton, where a fight has broken out in the street. In Birmingham, there are reports that a man has crashed his car and jumped off a motorway bridge after being pursued by police. Critical care paramedics Mike Andrews and Ryan Ferris are called to Birmingham, where a schoolgirl has been injured in a hit-andrun incident.
In this episode, Dr Iwan Davies and paramedic Peter Bowles are called to Halesowen, where a man is reported to have cut himself badly in a fall. Pensioner Roy hit his head on a cabinet, partly detaching his scalp. Paramedics have so far been unable to contain the bleeding. Dr Iwan applies more than 10 surgical staples to hold Roy's scalp in place and ensure he can be transported safely to hospital. In Birmingham, Dr Hadassa Ihlenfeldt and critical care paramedic Ash Mulindar are called to a tower block where a man has overdosed on heroin. He's unconscious and is barely breathing. The team use a bag to ventilate him and administer NARCAN, a medication that reverses the effects of the drug. Dr Jon Bingham and critical care paramedic Jack Lewis are dispatched to Stafford, where an elderly man is believed to have fallen down the stairs. Neighbours raised the alarm after his family was unable to reach him. Jack and Dr Jon arrive to find the patient in a critical condition, as 77-year-old re
In Wolverhampton, a machine operator has had a workplace accident, and his hand is crushed in an industrial press. The machine can't be released and, after 90 minutes, the man is still stuck. If he can't be freed, he could quickly develop life-threatening complications. While engineers and the fire service make last-ditch efforts to release the press, the critical care team prepare to amputate the man's limb in order to save him. One of the newest members of the critical care team, paramedic Ben Rean, is on shift with one of the most experienced — critical care practitioner Faye Pollock. They're called to a cemetery in Oldbury, where a man is reported to have collapsed while visiting a grave. They find 76-year-old Trevor in cardiac arrest and must perform life-saving treatment. With a combination of CPR and electric shocks with a defibrillator, they manage to restart Trevor's heart just as the ambulance arrives at hospital. In Birmingham, a terrified caller alerts 999 to a man being vi
Two air ambulance teams are called to a serious road accident on a busy dual carriageway. A car has crashed through the barriers and rolled into a field. While one team treats a passenger who has been thrown from the vehicle, Dr Jake Turner and Critical Care Paramedic Ryan James focus on the driver, who is still trapped inside and groaning in pain. After fire crews help extract the patient from the car, Dr Jake's initial inspection reveals a broken arm, while the patient's agitated behaviour points to a traumatic head injury. Dr Jake decides to anaesthetise the man in order to transport him to hospital safely without further aggravating his injuries. In Willenhall, the critical-care team are responding to reports of a man who's been stabbed in a supermarket car park. Fortysix- year-old lorry driver Lee had just finished shopping when he saw a group of men trying to break into a van. When he confronted them, he was attacked with a knife and hammer. Critical Care Paramedic Tom Waters and
A window on to life-or-death incidents in the fast-paced world of the most specialised emergency first
Medics rush to a 60-year-old woman with suspected multiple injuries, trapped in her car, and to the 36-year-old victim of a knife attack, who has extensive injuries to his neck and face.
There's major trauma when a hay bale lands on a farmer's head in a remote location.
Tewkesbury, 11 pm. A motorist calls 999 after spotting a car stuck in a ditch. A man is trapped inside, slumped against the door and bleeding from his head. It's a time-critical emergency, and Critical Care Paramedics Will Meadows and Kerry Hemus are immediately dispatched, finding Rob, 38, conscious, but unable to move his legs. Fearing he may have suffered a serious spinal injury, Kerry and Mark need to get Rob out of the car as quickly as possible. but any sudden movement now could lead to paralysis.
11.15 AM, Dudley. Eighty-three-year-old Iris suffers a nasty fall at home and is in severe pain. She has a suspected broken thigh bone, and Critical Care Paramedic Stephen Mitchell is immediately dispatched.
A man has sustained a serious leg injury after being crushed by a forklift truck, while a 22-year-old woman is trapped in her car with a badly injured ankle after a collision.
Fay Pollock and Sara Folley arrive on the scene where forty-two-year-old Mark has collapsed in his bathroom. A head on collision between two motorcyclists issues a code red call out for Dr Mark Nash and critical care paramedic Will Meadows. An emergency response team administrates pain management to 56-year-old Della, who is suffering from a broken leg after slipping on her steps.
Paramedics Grant Salsby and Sarah Folley rush to the scene where a man has collapsed at the wheel and crashed his car. Fay Pollock and Dr Stef Cowan treat a 72-year-old who has fallen from a ladder, finding he has an open fracture and no pulse in his foot, while Peter Bowles and Dr Andy Mockridge hurry to a 22-year-old who is suffering a prolonged epileptic seizure.
10.50 AM Staffordshire. 64-year-old David has collapsed at work with a suspected cardiac arrest. Critical Care Paramedics Sarah Folley and Fay Pollock are immediately dispatched.
A 52-year old man complains of neck and shoulder pains after being thrown off his motorbike and a 40-year-old epileptic woman has collapsed with a dangerously low breating rate.
A 60-year-old man is involved in a high speed crash and it seems his chest has taken the full force of the impact; A 70-year-old man suddenly collapses with symptoms of a heart attack.
A 53-year-old joiner has fallen through the first floor of a building onto concrete; a 43-year-old man has cut himself in the abdomen with a chainsaw whilst doing DIY and is in a serious condition.
