999: On the Front Line

Paramedics treat a woman who's fallen over and torn the skin from her leg. And an idyllic afternoon tea turns sour when a wasp sting gives a man an anaphylactic reaction.

Paramedics are concerned that a man who was in a car crash outside a school may be bleeding internally. Another man has severe blood loss, and a baby's struggling to breathe.

In this episode paramedics treat a woman who has fallen and may have broken her hip. It's only been a few weeks since her last fall, when she dislocated it. Paramedics also help a man with a family history of heart attacks who's experiencing sudden chest pain, a seven-year-old boy who can't stop being sick, and a woman who's passed out in her bathroom and has a deep gash to the top of her head. And, after one too many beers, a man face plants the pavement.

In this episode, paramedics treat a postal worker who has slipped on sewage. He's lying on the ground unable to move and may have broken his hip. The paramedics are sent to a possible cardiac arrest and find the patient in a bin. It's one of the most bizarre callouts that they've ever attended. Paramedics also treat a woman who is in 'ten out of ten' pain with kidney stones, an elderly man with a water infection and a three-month-old baby who's having trouble breathing.

In this episode, a gardener slips off a wall and badly damages his leg. It's going to be difficult for the paramedics to get him out of this tight space without causing further injury. A crew responding to an elderly woman with a head injury are diverted to a man who's collapsed in a car park. Paramedics also treat a woman who lives with migraines and has been in bed with persistent sickness for 24 hours, a woman living with dementia who's found unresponsive by her husband, and a patient with advanced cancer who's losing blood and needs to go to hospital.

The series that follows a typical 12-hour shift with the paramedics of West Midlands Ambulance Service. Filmed during the autumn months as hospital waiting times rocketed and the pressures on the service increased, this series lays bare what life's really like on the front line at three ambulance hubs: Stoke, Stafford and Willenhall in the Black Country. On their way to a job, paramedics come across a road traffic accident that's only just happened. Two cars have collided, and a woman's sitting in the middle of the road in tears and breathing fast. Paramedics also treat a patient whose burst varicose vein leaves their kitchen like a crime scene, a baby who's struggling to breathe and has an irregular heartbeat, and a frequent caller who makes inappropriate sexual comments to an all-female crew. And a track-side suicide is a new and tragic experience even for the most experienced paramedics. 

Paramedics treat a gardener who's slipped off a wall, an intoxicated man who's collapsed in a car park and a woman with advanced cancer who's losing blood.

Paramedics help a man who has suddenly collapsed while chatting to his neighbours over the garden fence and the ambulance has to make an emergency stop on the way to hospital when the patient starts choking. An afternoon tea of clotted cream and jam turns sour when a wasp stings a man on the lip, causing an anaphylactic reaction. Plus, a homeless man is reported to be in cardiac arrest.

Compilation edition, featuring road traffic collisions. A pick-up truck is wedged up a tree and the driver is still inside. With the help of the fire service, the paramedics need to treat the man and get him to hospital. When a motorcyclist collides with a deer, the man ends up spreadeagled on the road. Worried that he may have damaged his spine, the paramedics need to keep his head still, to prevent further injury.

Bringing together some of the most memorable and captivating stories from the paramedics' case book. When a trauma case is the result of a stabbing, the paramedics must think about their own safety as well as treating the patient. In the early hours, paramedics are called out to a man who's been stabbed outside a block of flats. At a different address a man is stabbed in the head and chest.

A selection of memorable A&E stories, featuring a woman who tripped and put her head through a glass door, a gardener who accidentally head-butted a wall and a young cyclist who fell off after hitting a pothole, leaving paramedics suspecting he had broken his kneecap. Plus, the woman who broke her leg but waited 24 hours before calling for help and man who suffered an allergic reaction to the poison ivy in his garden.

Compilation episode, highlighting the need for paramedics to be ready for anything. A team responds to a call about a hotel guest behaving erratically. The patient claims she can hear her children outside and suddenly runs across a busy road. Plus, a young schoolboy is about to have a PE lesson when he has a seizure.

Special episode, demonstrating how paramedics handle their patient's pain. A woman who has diabetes is found by her son collapsed on the floor. The EMTs suspect she's had a hypo and need to get glucose into her blood stream. With no access to a vein, they take drastic action by drilling directly into her leg. The paramedics also treat a midwife, who has a painful bowel obstruction.

This compilation episode takes a look at some of the injuries that the UK's elderly population have suffered from, such as a man who's fallen while collecting his morning paper and has badly hit his head. Paramedics also treat a man who has collapsed at home with dangerously high blood sugar levels, as well as a woman who's fallen over while out shopping and may have broken her leg.