This new medical science series explores the life or death decisions facing doctors in the first critical hour of emergency care.
From the moment the 999 call is made, An Hour to Save Your Life follows the stories of three patients, minute by minute, second by second, as frontline doctors and ambulance staff battle against the clock to treat their injuries.
With 360 degree access to specialist clinicians both at the scene and in the hospital, together with candid testimony from the medics themselves, this series gives a unique insight into the dilemmas and innovations of emergency care.
Watch An Hour to Save Your Life on BBC Two
An Hour to Save Your Life is on Tuesday evenings at 9pm, starting on 4 March. Information on each episode will appear below.
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An Hour to Save Your Life – At the scene
Medics fight to save the lives of a man hit by a car, and a farmer crushed by a cow.
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An Hour To Save Your Life: On The Edge
In the second programme, paramedics respond to a stabbing, a motorbike crash and a cardiac arrest.
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An Hour to Save Your Life: Making the Invisible Visible
The final programme in the series follows three more cases where every second is vital.
Read nowAn Hour to Save Your Life: Making the Invisible Visible
Find out more about trauma and how patients are treated
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Download your free 'An Hour to Save Your Life: Trauma and Emergency Care' booklet
What is trauma? How are major injuries treated? Download your free Open University booklet to learn more.
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Understanding the body's response to injury, and the development of trauma centres
How the body responds to physical injury, and the development of specialist centres that treat major trauma victims.
Read nowUnderstanding the body's response to injury, and the development of trauma centresLevel: 1 Introductory
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40 years of the Glasgow Coma Scale
The Glasgow Coma Scale is 40 years old. Here we look at how a patient's score is calculated.
Read now40 years of the Glasgow Coma ScaleLevel: 1 Introductory
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Introducing Health Sciences: Paramedics
Traumatic injury causes millions of deaths and disabilities globally and cases are rising as road traffic increases. This album features a real-life simulation of the aftermath of a car crash and reveals the crucial steps paramedics must take to tend to the injured driver and get him into the ambulance. It shows the importance of the Platinum Ten Minutes and the Golden Hour, key concepts which the ambulance services follow when dealing with life-threatening conditions. This material forms part of The Open University course SDK125 Introducing health sciences: a case study approach.
Listen nowIntroducing Health Sciences: ParamedicsLevel: 1 Introductory
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An Hour To Save Your Life: Meet our academics
What's it like working on a BBC show for an Open University academic? Our An Hour To Save Your Life academic team reveal all...
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