Radio Times: Review by:; David Butcher

It can’t be easy being a trauma specialist who is also a parent. As Kings consultant Emer points out, when you treat patients with serious injuries every day, you start to see the world as a hotbed of hazards: “You live in a world where injury is an expectation as opposed to a surprise”.

In playgrounds, Emer only sees the sharp corners. Somewhere between that ultra-awareness of risk and the case of eight-year-old Pharrell lies a happy medium. Pharrell fell off his bike on an eight-foot ramp at a BMX park and fell onto his head: he wasn’t wearing a helmet and the results are hard to watch. Among other things, he may have broken teeth in his airway.

About this programme

8/14. Consultant Emer Sutherland helps treat an eight-year-old who has fallen 8ft onto concrete while riding his BMX, losing his front teeth and possibly injuring his head and spine. A 19-year-old motorcyclist who hit a bollard requires urgent treatment on his leg, which may otherwise need to be amputated, and X-rays of a stabbing victim yield startling results.