The following cases arrive at the trauma room: A multi-car crash sends patients to surrounding hospitals, A car smashes into a bulldozer causing multiple injuries, A BMX bike rider suffers major head injuries, a man is knifed in a stairwell.
The following cases arrive at the trauma room: A teenager is stabbed in the head, neck, and back, A factory worker gets caught in an industrial machine, A woman is stabbed in the thigh and has nerve damage, A car crash causes a brake pedal to go through a man’s limb.
The following cases arrive at the trauma room: a deck collapses and crushes a woman’s spinal cord, a stabwound in the back punctures a woman’s lung, an industrial accident impales a clavicle, a woman has devastating injuries from a car crash.
The following cases arrive at the trauma room: A woman falls from a horse, A man sustains injuries when he falls from a houseboat, A man falls from his ATV and may have spinal cord damage, a schoolteacher’s car rollsover into the ditch, a driver falls asleep at the wheel.
The following cases arrive at the trauma room: A father is hit by a car while waiting in a bus shelter and had massive head trauma, An ATV hits a hole and knocks off the driver causing brain injury, A speeding car hits a cyclist and causes trauma to its passenger, a printing press pulls a worker’s arm into its machinery.
The following cases arrive at the trauma room: a hunter falls from a tree, a woman is injured in a double head-on car crash, a police officer hit by a transport truck, A man pinned under a truck, a motorcycle collision crushes a man’s pelvis.
The following cases arrive at the trauma room: A man mowing his lawn is hit by a speeding car, a motorcyclist crashes and breaks her arms, leg, and pelvis, A bus hits a car and injures a passenger, A 78 year old man falls 20 feet and lands on rocks, A man falls off his roof while doing repairs.
The following cases arrive at the trauma room: A man is shot in the lower abdomen, a roofer is injured when he falls through a skylight, a man falls 10 feet off a roof injuring his ankle, a bus hits a car, collapsing the passenger’s lung, a man falls from his motorcycle fracturing his body.
The following cases arrive at the trauma room: a woman shot in a drive by shooting, a man suffers brain injury from ATV accident, a man is stabbed twice in the back, a window cleaner plummets 40 ft to the ground from a faulty cradle.
The following cases arrive at the trauma room: a 17 year old girl suffers brain injury in a car accident, a man suffers severe head, neck and limb injuries after a snowmobile accident, a man is hit twice by two separate cars, a 27 year old man falls of an ATV with no helmet and suffers major head injuries.
As Toronto reels from a relentless increase of violent crime the trauma team at Sunnybrook Hospital battles to save the lives of the city’s latest victims. A young man is shot twice and the Doctors and nurses of the trauma team rush to discover what damage the deadly bullets may have caused. The team also works to save the lives of not just one - but two victims of vicious stabbings.
The trauma team at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital battles to save the lives of teens and young people who’ve made bad choices and false moves with their vehicles, or been the victim of a fight over the smallest things. Two young women lose their limbs in a car crash that could have been avoided, and they’ve got a message to save the lives and limbs of others. The team also struggles to save the life of two teen boys – both the victims of bad decisions and hot tempers.
Trauma teams at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto know that some lives are damaged and lost despite all efforts to save them, causing families and medical staff alike to question the roll of a higher power or fate in the course of a trauma’s unfolding events. One man's recent turn to god may not save him from the drug wars that have landed him in trauma with two life-threatening bullet wounds, while the simplest pleasures for a schoolteacher may alter the course of his life forever. A church-going woman is convinced her fate is in god's hands, and her surgeon agrees; while a young teen's fall form a building could be the life-changing event she needs to survive.
As Canada’s leading trauma unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto attracts the best and the brightest medical minds and talents. One of them is the young surgeon Talat Chugtai. The son of an esteemed Pakistani surgeon in Montreal, Dr. Chugtai’s done only 3 years of trauma medicine, but already he’s established himself in a class of his own. This episode finds him on the eve before he’s set to travel to the earthquake zone of Pakistan to offer up 24/7 emergency surgery to the victims. But Dr. Chugtai’s last on-call shift at the Trauma Centre has him challenged to the hilt by a case of a man who’s fallen 15 feet from a cliff; that goes from bad to worse with each passing moment.
Who would choose to spend their professional lives in a medical trauma room? Day in and day out, trauma room nurses at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s Trauma Centre manage excruciating pain, tears, panic and fear while often witnessing lives change or die before their eyes. They’re high on the action where every moment of medical attention counts, but they know the cost of burn out can be high. Cases of blunt force trauma that put patients’ lives on the line are told from the privileged viewpoint of veteran and young trauma room nurses. One young man was shot at close range, while another was stabbed in his own school yard, while a young and new mother may never get to hold her baby, after being hit head on in a car crash.
At Toronto’s Sunnybrook Regional Trauma Centre, neurosurgery fellows and orthopaedic residents discover they’ve got to learn on their feet, fast, if they hope to save an electrical worker, who, after falling out of his crane, is at risk of a coma that only emergency surgery can hope to remedy; while a fallen tree sends another man into trauma with multiple injuries and severe pain, forcing the new resident on call to trust his instincts to save his life. And a woman falls down a flight of stairs and is rushed to trauma with a deep bleed in her brain that could lead to stroke if not urgently addressed. The neurosurgery resident must help to save her from stroke and coma, but the surgery is a steep and tough learning curve for him.
At Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital, three victims of separate head on collisions fight for life and limb...another, struck by a truck while riding his bike home from work, and not even the confines of a race track could prevent a weekend motorcycle racer from a crash with a combined speed of over 250 miles per hour.
Canada’s largest trauma centre at Toronto’s Sunnybrook hospital receives more than 1000 traumas a year. Two trauma team doctors who handle a significant number of these cases are Mark Brzozowski, a veteran emergency room doctor, and Lorraine Tremblay, a quirky and brilliant researcher and surgeon. Both work brutal shifts handling a case of man who falls from his cottage, only to lose the use of his legs; a young woman caught in a car crash roll-over; and a man is extracted from beneath a roof that collapsed.