A look straight to the heart of the medical frontline with privileged access to three major city hospitals, introducing the incredible men and women dealing with life and death situations every day.
Sydney’s bustling nightlife wreaks chaos in the Emergency Department; a young woman undergoes a complicated heart surgery and an ICU patient threatens violence against the medical staff.
Emergency nurses fight to save a man whose gone into anaphylactic shock. Transplant nurse Rodrigo leads a mission across Australia to retrieve a donor heart.
An elderly woman’s dangerously high heart rate has the emergency trauma team braced for resuscitation; cancer patient Chris undergoes risky brain surgery.
A 21-year-old woman is treated by the Emergency team after a traumatic horse-riding accident that could leave her paralysed. Nurse Hannah comforts an elderly man whose suffered a stroke.
The discovery of a lesion shatters the hopes of a young man on life support as he waits for a lung transplant. Nurses Yoon and Darren need to act quickly to save the life of a bariatric patient.
In this episode, a patient undergoes deep brain stimulation in the hopes of curing Parkinson’s symptoms; an intoxicated young man could have a brain injury; a graduate midwife is put to the test.
A roofer has fallen three metres from a ladder and could be paralysed. The therapy dog of a young woman gives a signal that she’s about to have a seizure.
The team in Emergency brace themselves for an incoming patient who jumped in front of a train. Meanwhile, it’s Intensive Care Nurse Ali’s last shift before she moves to Edinburgh.
In Emergency, Nurses Carly and Yoon deal with a run of football injuries. While Nurses Phoebe and Megan call themselves 'the plumbers' of medicine in vascular surgery.