AN HOUR TO SAVE YOUR LIFE
BOUNDLESS | BBC2
PRODUCER DIRECTOR
Medical science series exploring the life or death decisions facing doctors in the first critical hour of emergency care
I trained and received special license to travel with HEMS and embedded with London Air Ambulance and Great Northern Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) in order too film the work of the Doctor-Paramedic Teams that respond to the most critical of emergencies and the medics, surgeons and hospital staff tasked with trying to save a life. Death was commonplace but so too was hope and human resilience.
On series 2 I filmed a thoracotomy involving open heart surgery in the street, the first time the procedure has ever been televised in the UK.
CLIPS
999 call
Trauma doctor Simon Walsh treats a young woman seriously injured after a cycling accident. Her blood loss is so great that she has gone into cardiac arrest.
Swelling in Julian's brain
After a cycling accident, Julian begins to deteriorate and suffers a major stroke. Doctors must decide on the best course of action to reduce the swelling in his brain.
"Anything versus the bin lorry tends to come off worse"
Doctors are concerned that moped rider Martin may have severe head and spinal injuries, after the wheel of a lorry pressed against his neck during a collision.
