Ambulance Australia

As the calls come in, all sense of quiet turns to chaos. A young man has been found after a suspected seizure. His life is now in the hands of paramedics. Can they treat him in time?

A poisoned toddler, a workplace accident & a pregnant woman in a car accident. Ambulance follows people in the business of saving lives, going beyond the flashing lights to the heart & soul of heroes.

It's the notorious Saturday night shift and a surge in calls relating to drugs and alcohol floods the control centre. Out on the streets, paramedics struggle to free patients from the wreckage of a horrific motor vehicle accident, deal with an intoxicated man who is bleeding from the face, and worry about the possibility of a traumatic brain injury after a motorcycle accident.

Paramedics attend difficult jobs and save lives daily, but how much can they take before it truly affects them? How do they cope with grim or emotional jobs? In this episode: a call taker tries to revive a hanging patient over the phone when the family's given up. A heart attack turns into a race against the clock and a gruesome double stabbing pushes the NSW Ambulance services to their limits.

It's not an ordinary Sunday for NSW Ambulance, as eighty thousand people hit the streets in Sydney's annual City2Surf. Paramedics drive through the crowds to locate a semi-conscious participant suffering from hyperthermia, and a seventy year old who collapses after completing the fourteen-kilometre run.

This episode showcases the full range of skills NSW Ambulance deploys to serve the community. We see the highest possible medical intervention, as a team of paramedics and the Ambulance helicopter medical crew rush to save a cyclist with serious head injuries. Paramedics are scrambled to deal with a spate of party drug overdoses on Sydney's Oxford Street late on Friday night.