Doctors Investigate Alarming Blood Clot Just Weeks After Birth

From mysterious facial swelling and sudden hair loss to crippling headaches, doctors investigate patients searching for answers. A young girl faces severely enlarged tonsils, while others struggle with persistent coughing, dizziness, skin changes and unexplained symptoms. Doctors uncover possible allergic reactions, alopecia, sinusitis and other conditions, while deciding when further tests and specialist treatment are needed. An eye-opening episode following real GP appointments, medical mysteries, diagnoses and treatments as doctors work to discover what’s wrong.

In this episode of GPs: Behind Closed Doors, doctors treat a patient with a dangerous infection after skin cancer surgery. The infection could spread through his arm, putting his health and vital hospital treatment at serious risk. The episode also features memory-loss fears, severe stomach pain, a sick baby and concerns about prostate cancer.

An 81-year-old patient is rushed into A&E with ventricular tachycardia, a dangerously fast heart rhythm that could lead to cardiac arrest. Inside Northwick Park Hospital’s resus department, nurses and doctors race to stabilise his heart using emergency medication.With his ECG showing a potentially life-threatening rhythm, the team must act quickly before his condition deteriorates.

The mobile GP surgery sees a series of patients with worrying and sometimes mysterious symptoms. Doctors investigate sudden dizziness and confusion that could indicate a stroke, painful skin problems, whiplash after a car crash, unexplained falls and migraines, exercise-related heart palpitations, a sick young child, recurring episodes of vision loss, and severe ear discomfort. Throughout the episode, the GPs have to decide which symptoms are harmless and which need urgent specialist investigation.

In this episode of Emergency Nurses, doctors race against the clock as a suspected stroke patient arrives with life-threatening symptoms, while another patient is rushed into A&E after a suicide attempt leads to cardiac arrest. Elsewhere, a motorcyclist is brought in following a serious road traffic collision as trauma teams search for hidden internal injuries. From split-second decisions to life-saving treatment, witness the extraordinary work of frontline emergency nurses inside one of the UK's busiest emergency departments.

In this episode of GPs: Behind Closed Doors, doctors care for a range of elderly patients facing complex health concerns. A woman with worsening memory loss and dizziness is urgently referred for further tests after doctors fear it could be a stroke or dementia. Elsewhere, a patient with suspected Addison's disease deteriorates rapidly in the surgery and is rushed to hospital by ambulance with a potentially life-threatening adrenal crisis. The team also diagnoses scarlet fever in a young boy, investigates a painful hand tremor, and helps patients with falls, hernias, chronic pain, and other age-related conditions.