Surgeons on the Edge of life.

[Toddlerteaplease]

Poor Jas. The manipulation of the neck made me feel a bit 🤢.

I've just watched the first series on iPlayer. It is fascinating.

This is one of the reasons I'm loathe to move too far away from Cambridge!

About to start...

My ward looked after kids having scoliosis repairs until a year ago. When they moved to neurology. So I'm a bit 🙄 by all the dramatic narration. It's bread and butter for those surgeons. Though I'm amazed that they are operating on a patient who is so painfully thin with absolutely no reserves.

The boy with scoliosis looks so fragile.
The operation is gripping.
Hope he has a good outcome.

Yes. We would bring patients like that in for tube feeding a few months pre op to fatten them up. Seeing this surgery I'm amazed how quickly we got them mobile again. Average length of stay was 5 days.

I thought that spinal surgery was brutal.

I was so glad it worked for the woman. I felt so bad for her. Such a horrible problem to have. I hope it doesn't happen for me

Love this series. Narrator is Shaun Dooley. If you watched It's a Sin, he was the Dad on the Isle of Wight, married to Keeley Hawes.

The foot reminds me of 24 hours in A & E a few weeks back.

Omg Joan's foot

Poor Joan. OMG.

That poor woman, shocking injury!

I’m watching this through my fingers, I’m afraid. Poor Joan, how awful for her 😥

Narration is very dramatic!...

Not uncommon injuries though.

Possible the most gory thing I’ve seen on tv (the foot degloving)
poor lady.

I worked in theatres at Addenbrookes for years. It's interesting hearing how affected the surgeons are by the patients as that's something they usually kept very much to themselves.

Is it worse than the foot on 24 hours in an and e? That made me wish I wasn’t alone in the house as it made me feel very weird!

Omg those poor women, that was just horrific. They were so brave and polite as well.

Yes it was worse 🫣

Oh god it sounds like it’s more severe than the poor lady in an episode a few weeks ago who had a terrible ankle/foot injury after falling off her caravan steps - is it far worse? Not sure if I can watch if it is…

It's very graphic because her foot was degloved not just broken.
There was a lot of poking and blood because they wanted to see what they could save.
The heel injury wasn't quite as bad.

Jesus, I definitely can’t face that. Thanks for the warning, I was just settling down in bed to watch something, will be swerving this weeks episode. Do hope she made a good recovery though, sounds traumatic. How did it happen?

She was hit by a van crossing the road.
The other lady was in a head on collision, her heel and pelvis was shattered.
I did have to look away a couple of times myself!

The degloved foot 🤢
poor woman, I felt really bad for her, but I had to look away.

This was the only one I wasn't glued to as I found the foot just too much. That poor lady!