Saving Lives in Cardiff - Season 1

First aired: 8/20/2024 6 episodes

Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make.

Episodes

1. Episode 1

Aired: 8/20/2024

At Wales’s biggest hospital, neurosurgeon George Eralil operates on a 19-year-old with a rare brain tumour, and vascular consultant Lewis Meecham faces a wave of emergency cases.

2. Episode 2

Aired: 8/27/2024

Paediatric surgeon Oliver Jackson fights to ensure surgery for a 17-week-old baby triplet goes ahead. And a man who was the victim of an attack has an operation to restore his sight.

3. Episode 3

Aired: 9/3/2024

Two maxillofacial surgeons team up to rebuilds a 19-year-old’s face after removing a tumour, and consultant Aarti Sharma fights to give a mother with incurable cancer more time with her four children.

4. Episode 4

Aired: 9/10/2024

Eye surgeon Magdalena Popiela fights to save a woman’s sight, and for orthopaedic surgeon Clare Carpenter, a wave of emergencies add pressure to an already full day of surgery.

5. Episode 5

Aired: 9/17/2024

Paediatric surgeon Selena Curkovic is determined to make a life-changing operation happen for an eight-year-old boy, and a spinal surgeon must decide which of two patients gets surgery first.

6. Episode 6

Aired: 9/24/2024

A breast cancer patient and her surgeon of nine years hope a third operation means she can live life fully again, and three surgeons remove a tumour that is a 'ticking time-bomb.'