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1 online resource (streaming video file) (47 min. 29 sec.) ; 286550507 bytes |
| Summary |
One wrong step, one sudden illness or one unlucky break could mean a trip to the Emergency room. It's a place where dramatic stories of love, life and death unfold every day. With 70 cameras filming around the clock for 28 days, this series offers unprecedented access to one of Britain's busiest Emergency departments, at King's College Hospital in London. Each program focuses on patients who were treated within the same 24-hour period.The series captures the joy and heartache faced by patients and their families, as well as the hard work and professionalism of the Emergency staff. From life-threatening traumas to embarrassing mishaps, 24 Hours in Emergency is an intimate, powerful and sometimes comic insight into life - and death - on the frontline of the medical world.Senior consultant Malcolm Tunnicliff and his team face a battle to save a 'Code Red' - a patient with potentially fatal injuries - brought into Emergency by helicopter. Student Theodore Chatziapostolou has been dragged under a bus while crossing the road. He was trapped and literally folded in two. Hovering between life and death, Tunnicliff has 15 minutes to keep Theodore alive so he can find out what's wrong with him and work out how to save him. (From the UK) (Documentary Series) *New Series* M (A) CC |
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Broadcast 2012-01-05 at 21:35:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Chest -- Wounds and injuries.
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Emergency medical services.
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Leg -- Wounds and injuries.
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Pelvis -- Wounds and injuries.
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King's College London. Hospital.
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England -- London.
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Streaming video
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Flanagan, Amy, director
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Philipson, Anthony, director
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Tunnicliff, Malcolm, contributor
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