Doctors Race to Stop a Life-Threatening Infection

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.

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.

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.

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.

Doctors also investigate possible carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue, poorly controlled diabetes and unexplained hair loss. Watch these fascinating real-life GP consultations exploring diagnosis, treatment, patient care and the challenges of everyday medicine.