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An Hour To Save Your Life explores the critical decisions facing doctors in the first hour of emergency care. Against a ticking clock, each episode follows three patients from the moment the 999 call is made, minute by minute, as frontline doctors and paramedics battle to keep them alive and treat their injuries. Combining medical detail with compelling actuality, this series gives a unique insight into the most life-and-death moments in medicine.

In London, fitness trainer Dusan is in critical condition after being hit by a bus. With potential head, chest and abdominal injuries causing major internal bleeding, the air ambulance team anaesthetise him at the scene. In hospital, Dusan is declared a code red and receives immediate blood transfusions. After chest drains are inserted to help him breath, he is sent for emergency surgery to treat the source of his internal bleeding.

In Gloucestershire, George is involved in a serious horse riding accident which leaves him unable to move. Worried that he may have damaged his spinal cord and his breathing may deteriorate, doctors transfer him to a major trauma centre for detailed scans.

In St Albans, tree surgeon Seb falls from a high ladder onto his back whilst pruning trees. Doctors and paramedics suspect he may be bleeding internally and have internal fractures. Scans reveal several crushed vertebrae and Seb is taken to theatre for spinal surgery.