Saving Lives in Cardiff

Life-saving operations, difficult dilemmas. Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make before tackling the day job of changing people’s lives.

Storyline

Life-saving operations, difficult dilemmas. Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make before tackling the day job of changing people’s lives.

First Aired

2024-08-20
Last Aired

2024-09-24
Creator
Genre

Documentary
Seasons

1
Episodes

6
Status

Returning Series
Language

English
Network

BBC Two

Keywords:

surgery medical

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Season 1

1. Episode 1

At Wales’s biggest hospital, neurosurgeon George Eralil operates on a 19-year-old with a rare brain tu...More

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.Less

58mins 2024-08-20

2. Episode 2

Paediatric surgeon Oliver Jackson fights to ensure surgery for a 17-week-old baby triplet goes ahead. ...More

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.Less

58mins 2024-08-27

3. Episode 3

Two maxillofacial surgeons team up to rebuilds a 19-year-old’s face after removing a tumour, and consu...More

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.Less

59mins 2024-09-03

4. Episode 4

Eye surgeon Magdalena Popiela fights to save a woman’s sight, and for orthopaedic surgeon Clare Carpen...More

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.Less

59mins 2024-09-10

5. Episode 5

Paediatric surgeon Selena Curkovic is determined to make a life-changing operation happen for an eight...More

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.Less

58mins 2024-09-17

6. Episode 6

A breast cancer patient and her surgeon of nine years hope a third operation means she can live life f...More

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.'Less