An Hour to Save Your Life: BBC2 9pm

[Legacywr]

New series. At the Scene

Series exploring the decisions faced in the first hour of emergencies. Medics try to save a man hit by a car and an injured farmer. Contains upsetting scenes.

[Gun]

I'll be watching, always find these shows interesting.

[Legacywr]

I didn't know they had paramedics on cycles in London!

[Daz68]

Wow. Gripping stuff so far. Uncomfortable but compulsive viewing.

[onyx39]

These guys are incredible, im not a medical person, but some of the stuff they are doing defies logic, like deliberately stopping them breathing!
Like I said not questioning it, but fascinating.

[Daz68]

Fantastic viewing. These people really are very special indeed and more than deserve every penny they earn.

[Daz68]

Here we go. These people are amazing.

[Legacywr]

There aren't many programs I can't watch, but, this is getting close!

[Rosscow]

That Auto-Pulse machine is incredible!

I'm a fairly seasoned First Aider (3 or 4 refreshers under my belt) and have dealt with finger tips cut off, etc. but never had to do CPR for real.

Must be very sobering.

Good programme!

[muckymotor]

Poor Stanley isn't having a good time.

My MIL had the same procedure after her lung was punctured in a car accident. The pain was so bad for her that she threw up.

[Legacywr]

A big hand for those people!

[craste]

Omg, this is tough viewing!

[Legacywr]

I love our NHS!

[anonymous-user]

Medical staff are simply amazing.

[Johnnybee]

craste said:

Omg, this is tough viewing!

Last weeks was too. If you didn't see it then it is well worth watching to see more amazing work by the medical staff.

[anonymous-user]

Wow this program is eye opening! How those nurses, medics and doctors do that all day long i have no idea, i'd be a wreck.

And the technology they bring to bear is incredible, like real time monitoring of intercrainial pressure (the pressure IN your brain!!) for example.

Surely not that many years ago, the two girls in this weeks program would have died, or perhaps at best survived with terribly debilitating after-affects. When they showed how they were just 8 weeks after their operations was amazing, although in both cases i suspect being young was a major advantage?

[jkh112]

I am friends with one of the A&E consultants shown in tonight's programme. I have seen her in a whole new light now.

[Eric Mc]

I watched a couple of minutes of this but was enticed away by the Olympic cycling. The head injury to the girl in the London car crash looked truly awful. Was she OK in the end?

[anonymous-user]

Eric Mc said:

I watched a couple of minutes of this but was enticed away by the Olympic cycling. The head injury to the girl in the London car crash looked truly awful. Was she OK in the end?

Yes. Amazing considering she had brain matter leakage!!!

[Eric Mc]

Was she wearing a belt, I wonder?

Because the programme is essentially about the medical side of things they don't go into too much detail as to how these accidents have occurred.