Trauma Room One

A patient in a critical condition is rushed into theatre from North Wales. He's had a stroke and the on-call trauma team have no time to lose. The stroke has caused his brain to swell, and they need to remove part of his skull to save his life.Forty-eight-year-old Christine has fallen downstairs, breaking her neck, it's a severe and life-threatening injury. Can the Consultant Neurosurgeon act in time to remove the shattered disc and save her from paralysis?Anthony is living with a ticking timebomb in his brain. It's called an AVM, a tangle of abnormal blood vessels that threatens his life every day. He's at the centre to have it removed but it's 6cm deep inside his brain and it's going to be a complex surgery to disconnect it.

A patient in a critical condition is rushed to the centre after collapsing at the wheel while driving. He's had a stroke and the on-call trauma team have no time to lose. His brain is swelling, and his chances of survival are looking slim. After suffering from headaches and dizzy spells, scans showed that 30-year-old Ashley had a life threatening tumour on his brain. First job is to remove the tumour, the second to analyse it for cancer.Sixty-five-year-old Beverley has been living with chronic lower back pain for years, to alleviate this she's having a metal spacer cage inserted between two vertebrae but, just millimetres from the spinal cord, there's no room for error.

A man is taken into theatre with agonising back pain and doctors suspect a cancerous tumour is compressing his spinal cord. He needs an operation using a hi-tech robot to remove it.

A neurosurgeon races to stop a 21-year-old Caitlin from becoming blind. A brain cyst endangers Toni's life and a massive deformity of the spine causes Steven to be operated on.

A patient is sped into theatre after a stroke. Lorna is rushed in for emergency surgery after breaking her back. A consultant neurosurgeon must act quickly to avoid paralysis.

Surgeons begin to fear that without urgent surgery Fifty-three-year-old Theresa could become paralysed after she's rushed to hospital with weakness in her arms and legs.

Shaun has a rare condition, acromegaly, that causes his hands and feet to keep growing. Sofia needs an operation to alleviate a Chiari malformation: her brain is pushing into the spinal canal.

James, 63, is losing feeling and function in his hands and fingers. Surgeons must act fast to remove disc and bone from his neck. It's up to them to save James from an uncertain future.

Documentary following life at Liverpool's Walton Centre for neurology and neurosurgery, beginning with a patient who must faces brain surgery while awake.

Fifty-eight-year-old Rachel has been rushed in after collapsing at a nearby A&E department, with a bleed on the brain. She needs urgent help as she has a ruptured brain aneurysm. Father of three Scott is losing feeling and function in his legs, and without surgery he could face paralysis. Surgeons must act fast to remove a tumour that is sitting on his spinal cord.

A woman arrives in a critical condition after a devatsating stroke. Meanwhile, surgeons must remove a tumour in 42-year-old Dayan's neck; without surgery he could face paralysis.

31-year-old Katelyn undergoes cutting edge laser surgery to tackle her epilepsy and 61-year-old Jackie is losing feeling and function in her arms and legs; without surgery she faces paralysis.

Sixty-three-year-old Andrew is rushed in for urgent brain surgery to remove a tumour from the right side of his brain. Fifty-two-year-old Sarah undergoes a brain implant procedure in the hope of ending decades of excruciating cluster headaches. Also, 77-year-old Chris needs an operation to drill away the extra bone growth on his cervical spine.

Surgeons race to remove a life-threatening brain mass from 34-year-old Milton, operate on Annie's spinal tumour to prevent paralysis, and perform complex keyhole surgery on Rob's spine.

Sixty-four-year-old Bruce is rushed in with a broken back, and to make matters worse, a rare condition has fused his spine into a brittle, candle-like bone. Patient Keith is a medical mystery - his legs are failing, but scans reveal more questions than answers. Also, 62-year-old Linda faces an awake craniotomy to remove an aggressive brain tumour lying millimetres from the area that controls speech.

Daniel is rushed to hospital with a life-threatening blood clot on the brain and undergoes emergency surgery to relieve the dangerous swelling - with part of his skull removed. An 81-year-old is faces an urgent surgery to remove a cluster of abnormal blood vessels on his spinal cord. Also, 66-year-old Andrew is undergoing a procedure designed to reduce his debilitating Essential Tremors.