Surgeons: At the Edge of Life is astounding TV ...Middle East

Where a programme like Channel 4’s 24 Hours in A&E shows us the realities of everyday emergency medicine, the BBC’s medical documentary series Surgeons: At the Edge of Life takes us into the operating theatres where leading doctors are pushing themselves to the limits to save lives.

The other patient is 61-year-old Ed, who has kidney cancer. The removal of his tumour is complicated by the fact that the cancer has spread into his two renal veins and removal will involve cutting into his inferior vena cava, the largest vein in the body. Not only is there a high risk of catastrophic haemorrhage, but there’s also the chance that a fragment of tumor could detach and travel to his heart and kill him.

Consultant transplant surgeon Andrew Sutherland, consultant anaesthetist Rosie Baruah and perfusionist Charlie Ramsay (Photo: Wes Kingston/BBC/Dragonfly Film and TV Productions)

In both cases, the stakes are as high as they can be and each operation is a race against time. Sania’s pancreas must be transported to a laboratory 11 miles away for the cells to be extracted before they are transported back for implantation, while for Ed, the trickiest and most dangerous part of the operation must be completed before his other kidney suffers any damage – every minute is vital.

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It should be emphasised that this is not a programme for watching over dinner. The cameras that take us behind the doors of the operating theatre also take us deep inside the patients themselves, revealing the interior of the human body in all its astonishing, pulsating, slimy, pink glory. I should admit that I watched the primary incisions through my fingers although my stomach strengthened as the episode progressed and curiosity got the better of me.

As both an education and a celebration of the marvels of modern medicine, Surgeons: At the Edge of Life is astounding, gripping television. A stomach-churning but life-affirming programme that reinforces just how inordinately grateful we should all be for scientific advancement and the staff of the NHS who deliver its fruits.

‘Surgeons: At the Edge of Life’ continues next Friday at 9pm on BBC Two

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