Doctors Race to Stop a Dangerous Infection After Surgery

A mobile medical team treats patients with everything from childhood infections and severe sciatica to persistent phlegm and painful skin conditions. Doctors investigate a changing mole, possible osteoarthritis, pet allergies and a suspected kidney infection accompanied by extremely high blood pressure. Concern grows when a sick toddler’s fever reaches 39.1°C after two courses of antibiotics fail to improve her condition. She is sent urgently to the hospital as doctors work to uncover the cause of her month-long mystery illness.

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.

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 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.

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.

This dramatic episode goes inside a busy A&E department at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, following emergency nurses dealing with serious accidents and unusual traumas. Patients include a man who slices through his chin with an angle grinder, a woman injured in a 40 mph car crash, a 13-year-old with a severe open arm fracture, and a man who accidentally runs himself over with his own car.