Surgeons: At the Edge of Life - Season 6

First aired: 3/27/2024 6 episodes

Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton perform complex procedures to transform and save their patients’ lives. But pushing the boundaries of medicine comes with great risk.

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Episodes

1. A Risk Worthing Taking

Aired: 3/27/2024

Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton take on high-risk surgery to remove life-threatening tumours.

2. All for One

Aired: 4/3/2024

At University Hospital Southampton, surgeons perform life-saving surgery: taking out a patient’s eye and the tumour behind it and removing an 83-year-old man’s cancerous bladder.

3. The Best Laid Plans

Aired: 4/10/2024

Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton operating on two patients - removing rare tumours and correcting a patient’s bowed legs - must alter their plans to avoid catastrophe.

4. Hope

Aired: 4/17/2024

Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton face complex surgery to reconstruct a patient’s jaw and remove a cancerous oesophagus.

5. We Can Rebuild You

Aired: 4/24/2024

Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton perform high risk spinal surgery and attempt to repair a patient’s aorta - the body’s biggest artery - that’s threatening to burst.

6. Make or Break

Aired: 5/1/2024

Three surgeons operate together on a motorcyclist at University Hospital Southampton’s major trauma centre after a crash leaves the patient with life-changing injuries.