Frontline Medicine

Sun 20 Nov and Sun 27 Nov at 2100 on BBC2

Make sure you don’t miss this new two-part series starting at 2100 on Sunday 20 November on BBC2 and concluding at the same time on Sunday 27 November. Presenter Michael Mosley goes from the frontline of war to the frontline of research to uncover the medical breakthroughs that are emerging from current conflicts.

The first episode takes Michael to Camp Bastion in Afghanistan to find out how medics are achieving the highest survival rate of injured Service Personnel in the history of warfare.

Michael discovers how new equipment being issued to the troops, like the one-handed tourniquet, is saving lives in the critical 10 minutes after injury. He also learns how advances in surgery and changes to blood transfusions developed out in Afghanistan are being applied both on and off the battlefield.

In episode two Michael travels to America to look at the latest radical ideas that have the potential to raise the bar of what’s survivable even further – from using the hormone progesterone to treat brain injury to trying to keep people alive by cooling them to the brink of death.

See BBC2