10 episodes · 27th March 2011
We meet a man who superglued a tiny top hat to his head; a patient who has been suffering with a nosebleed for a week; and a couple whose wedding day ended in surgery rather than matrimony after a bizarre motorbike accident. Plus, the Texan barber who survived a near-fatal attack by a swarm of more than 2,000 killer bees, and medical professionals confess the oddest and most outlandish cases they have been confrontred with in casualty.
Featuring the American couple who nearly died from bubonic plague on a holiday to New York; a student who was struck dumb after she yawned so wide that she dislocated her jaw; and a model plane enthusiast whose hand was shredded by the propellers on one of his mini flying machines. Plus, a staff member ends up with a super-sized pout after a bizarre allergic reaction.
Featuring a woman who was injured when her boyfriend dropped a turnip on her foot; a retail assistant whose eyelid was ripped in half when she smashed face-first into the end of a clothes rail; a man with a fly-fishing hook stuck in his nose; and a schoolboy who swallowed a pound coin. Plus, we head down under to meet the New Zealander who survived being crushed by a leaping, half-tonne dolphin.
Featuring a woman who had a life-threatening allergic reaction to a Halloween mask; a carpenter who arrived with two of his fingers on ice after he cut through his hand with a circular saw; a six-year-old with a piece of lego stuck in his nostril; and an art student who had sewn a needle straight through the end of her finger. Plus, how doctors in the US saved a skateboarder with severe head injuries by putting bits of his skull into deep freeze.
Featuring a toddler with his favourite bath toy stuck on the end of his finger; a carpenter who nearly severed his own hand after a momentary slip with a chop saw; a teenager whose tumble into a quarry ended with him getting a stick stuck in his head; and a man who arrived with his finger at a right angle after he fell and dislocated it on the way to the pub. Plus, how surgeons rebuilt a New Zealand forest worker's shattered skull by peeling back his face, and medical professionals confess the oddest and most outlandish things they've been confronted with in casualty.
Featuring a schoolboy who needed stitches after a bizarre joyride in an old lady's shopping trolley; a woodsman who ripped open his wrist with a machete; and a teenager who needed treatment after being terrorised by a terrier; and surgeons operating on a man after the metal plate on his collar bone popped out of his left shoulder. Plus, we meet the Norwegian adventurers who, on an Arctic expedition, were attacked in their sleep by a deadly polar bear.
Featuring a girl who split her head open after some ballroom dancing on a bouncy castle, a Bradford rag and bone man who carved into his hand with a Stanley knife, and an equestrian emergency after a horse-lover is trampled by her own pony and has to have a prosthetic implant put in her shoulder. Plus, the story of how a man in America became the first person ever to have a successful hand transplant, after losing his left hand in a freak firework accident.
Featuring a man who stabbed himself in the leg after using a carving knife as a mic during an impromptu karaoke performance; a woman who nearly lost her fingers when she mangled her hand in a printing machine; a plumber whose massive reaction to a wasp sting left him covered in bizarre blotches; and a toddler with a staple stuck in her gum. Plus, how surgeons used part of a man's ear to mend his mouth after his jaw was decimated in a catastrophic car crash.
Featuring a man who needed urgent treatment to save his sight after cement dust exploded in his face; a tree surgeon whose fingers were crushed by a log splitter; a man who slashed open his leg on a discarded toilet in his mum's back garden; and a schoolboy who arrived at the hospital complaining of a pencil stuck in his left ear. Plus, the story of how one woman broke her neck after falling 200 feet from a New Mexico mountain but lived to tell her tale.
Featuring a family who cut their Bonfire Night celebrations short when their youngest son ate a sparkler; a Bradford granny who was electrocuted by her own toaster; a Sunday league soccer player whose awkward tackle left him with a broken ankle; and a student who sliced her finger when she cut open a bouquet given to her by a mystery admirer. Plus, surgeons contend with an artist whose arm was skewered by a two-metre rod when she impaled herself on her own sculpture.
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