24 Hours In A&E

Senior consultant Malcolm Tunnicliff and his team battle to save a patient bought in by helicopter with potentially fatal injuries.

Thirty-one-year-old Brendan has a head-on collision between his motorbike and a car; the red phone from the ambulance service rings, signalling the imminent arrival of a seriously-ill patient.

Eleven-year-old Kofi is rushed into Resus, critically injured after being hit by a van; three quick trauma patients in a row: one shot in the face, one knifed in the skull, and one stabbed in the chest.

Saturday evening drunks besiege the emergency department including a 39-year-old who trips over a clothes horse and breaks his neck, a 56-year-old who hits his head on the pavement, and 26-year-old who cuts his hand putting it through a window.

This episode reveals what can happen when something goes wrong with the brain, including when patients suffer a stroke.

A 35-year-old stabbing victim, Colin Richards, is rushed in by ambulance with injuries to his lung, arm and liver; he's accompanied by his 19-year-old girlfriend, Esther, who was lying in bed next to him when they were awoken at gunpoint.