S2E6: Every Second Counts | Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Duration: 59'05''

Synopsis

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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