Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

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Did anyone see this?
Chris 😓😓😓
So devastating 😓

Best program of the year, brilliant just brilliant I want eye operations next year and perhaps an amputation.

I really wanted to know if Nancy's new voice will be better than her whisper that she had before. I completely understand reconstructing the Oesophagus so she could eat. But I probably would live with the voice as it was pre op.

Gosh i didn't know all that about delerium and how it was so common in ICU and the complications with it

I did a shift on Paediatric HDU the other week and was looking after a child who had horrendous withdrawal from sedation after a prolonged PICU stay. She doesn't speak so couldn't tell us anything. But she was clearly delirious.

My dad had delirium after a spell in ICU on a ventilator a few years ago - now we can look back and laugh at some of the stuff he came out with (he was convinced he was on a boat in Russia, doing sword dancing and using flamethrowers!) but at the time it was awful - something we really didn't know could happen. Such a relief when he emerged from it back into reality!

I absolutely love this programme. It never fails to restore my faith in humanity.

I agree best programme of the year, absolutely fascinating what can be achieved by these brilliant people.

\Just started watching on the strength of this thread 0 it is fascinating!

@HarlanPepper

I absolutely love this programme. It never fails to restore my faith in humanity.

It’s very hard for the surgeons because they have to carry on doing their best and some cases can haunt them.

What a fantastic programme, and what absolutely amazing work those surgeons do. That poor young man, though

LadyR77 I was on a ventilator for 2 weeks in July, and I had Delerium. I thought I could see Margaret Thatcher's face on the ceiling - it was a water sprinkler thing for fires.

I also thought that the woman opposite was having a birthday party and was waving me to join them.

There was a cardboard cutout of a nurse, which turned out to be the handwash station (washbasin, paper towels, soap dispenser.

Uterly bizarre at the time.

The thing that rung true about Adam was that the surgeon said we can’t tell what the outcome will be and that in its self can be viewed as hope.
Adam and his family have such a positive attitude and that will help them greatly.
I hope that Adam has many years ahead with his son.

Tonight’s episode is incredible. I am in awe.

Brilliant episode I would have liked to see the amputation though, as I said before best program on the tv.

So lucky this is our local hospital.

Just caught up with the trauma episode from last week. Absolutely incredible stuff. The organisation and level of co-operation needed to look after these complex cases is off the scale.

Really moving.

I'm not at all squeamish and can watch loads of surgeries and hospital programmes but my god that hand was really hard to look at the whole time it was showing it