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Paramedics on Scene(2019–)
September 29, 20196 Seasons · 58 Episodes
Returning Series
Documentary
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Overview
Documentary following the life-saving work of Scotland's paramedics.
Network BBC Scotland
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Documentary following the life-saving work of Scotland's paramedics.
2025
An 85-year-old man from Edinburgh has been trapped under his own floorboards for three days and is in need of rescue.
A toddler in Ayr suffers a seizure in front of his frightened parents, and paramedics in Glasgow provide urgent care to the survivor of a house fire who has suffered from serious burns.
Paramedics help a woman who has been thrown off a horse near Dunbar. Meanwhile, the air ambulance brings a child with appendicitis from Campbeltown to Glasgow.
Paramedics in Edinburgh race to a building site where a wall has collapsed on a team of workers. Meanwhile, ambulances in Airdrie are sent to the scene of a serious fire.
A man calls the emergency services, threatening to detonate a bomb. The area is evacuated, but special operations paramedics stay at the scene while police negotiate with the suspect.
A special operations crew in East Ayrshire is at the scene of a two-car collision. Meanwhile, paramedics in Buckie meet a man who crafts handmade fishing nets.
The Special Operations Response Team is called to a fall on Arthur’s Seat. Meanwhile, in Aberdeen, a student paramedic faces some difficult patients on her final training shift.
Paramedics are dispatched to the scene of a huge, potentially toxic fire on an industrial estate. They also help a concussed driver whose car has been struck in a frightening night-time collision.
Paramedics in Perth are called to an accident at a school rugby practice session. Meanwhile, an air ambulance lands on Stornoway to help a man who has suffered a suspected heart attack.
The special operations team attend to an elderly woman who has taken a nasty fall down a hill while walking her dog.
2019
We are with the special operations response teams as they deal with the most serious emergencies, including a child who has fallen into a loch.
We are with Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance in Perth as they serve those in the remotest parts of Scotland. And we see the special operations response teams deal with the most serious emergencies.
On the Isle of Mull, an accident has left a man seriously injured and triggers a response from the air ambulance. They need to get him to hospital in Glasgow as soon as possible.
In this episode we follow divisional ambulance crews in Paisley, Aberdeen and Edinburgh and the special operations response team, who deal with the most serious calls.
It's a hot summer's day and the special operations teams are called to support the fire service at a major wildfire.
A patient at Glasgow Airport is safely stowed onto the ambulance service's fixed-wing aircraft for a transfer back home to Stornoway after treatment in hospital.
The special operations team attend a car crash involving some tourists who have just arrived in Scotland.
The crew respond to a young boy with a rare heart condition who has had a seizure.
In Glasgow, a call about a possible person in the Clyde has triggered a huge emergency response - but is it genuine?
Ambulance crew Johnny and Fraser get a call to a GP surgery where it is reported that a man in his thirties seems to be having a heart attack - a highly unusual emergency.
2021
Paramedics respond to a major incident after a bus and van crash on the busy A90 near Dundee.
Paramedics race to Glasgow Airport to treat a patient in the operations tower with chest pains and a history of heart attacks.
Special operations paramedics are called to assist bomb disposal experts after a hazardous chemical is found at a building site.
Paramedics race to the scene of a road accident where an out-of-control car has landed upside down in a tree on the side of the road.
Paramedics rush to a road traffic accident where a car has flipped off the road, and respond to patients struggling to breathe.
Paramedics respond to a patient with neck pain following a car crash in Livingstone and assist the coastguard in the search for a missing person in Fife.
Paramedics help a man stuck in mud at a building site who needs to be pulled out without causing more damage to his legs and feet.
Special operations paramedics are called to a park-and-ride car park to help a patient.
2022
Paramedics are called to a serious mountain bike crash in the Borders. They must treat the patient on a remote hillside before working out how to get her safely to hospital.
Paramedics rush onto a football field to treat a player who has suffered a painful double fracture to his lower leg.
Paramedics treat an intoxicated patient who has fallen into a canal and who becomes violent when in the back of their ambulance. The crew need police support to get him to hospital.
Paramedics treat a teenage girl who has suffered a nasty fall from a high fence. She is in extreme pain, and they must stabilise her before moving her to hospital.
In Edinburgh, paramedics must rescue a patient from the summit of Arthur’s Seat, prompting the need to call on one of the ambulance service’s mighty off-road buggies.
A major incident on the M74 sees ambulance service resources from all over Scotland deployed. Meanwhile, crews in Ayr and Edinburgh deal with the fallout of Scotland’s drugs epidemic.
Paramedics slow a patient’s racing heart with an unusual technique, and the wave of Covid-related call-outs continues in the Borders.
Paramedics need their all-terrain vehicle to rescue a teenager with a dislocated knee. A patient on Skye with a serious lung condition faces a long journey.
A walker gets into trouble on one of the hottest days of the year, and an amateur footballer who suffered seizures after a football injury is transported from Skye to Inverness.
With Covid sweeping the country, paramedics Peter and Gary respond to a man who is having difficulty breathing and who receives a positive Covid result while on the way to hospital.
2023
An ambulance crew in Aberdeen attend an electric scooter crash, a bariatric patient with breathing difficulties, and a man who has been drinking 70 per cent homemade vodka.
The Special Operations Response Team helps two children, one who nearly loses a finger and another who needs help getting off an inflatable assault course with a broken arm.
A biker’s tour of northern Scotland is cut short due to a broken rib, and paramedics in Banff rush to the home of a woman who collapsed while on the phone for an ambulance.
In Dalkeith, an out-of-control dog attacks its owner and stands between the paramedics and their patient. And the ambulance service tries out e-bikes at the Edinburgh Festival.
Paramedics are called to the shore of Banton Loch in North Lanarkshire, where a man has fallen onto rocky ground. And a crew revive a man in Hawick who has overdosed on drugs.
There is a four-hour wait for a patient with a heart condition in Kirkcaldy, and a SORT team investigates whether a dangerous chemical has been released into a flat.
A man struggles to breathe at a nightclub, another collapses with Covid-19, and an ambulance crew in Paisley attend a child who is having febrile convulsions.
A patient takes a tumble off an electric scooter, hitting his head. He is reluctant to travel to the hospital, but changes his mind when he faints in the ambulance.
Paramedics visit an uncooperative patient who has taken an overdose of drugs, and there is an urgent call to a baby who may have swallowed a drawing pin.
Paramedics in Livingston attend a road traffic collision, and call handlers at the ambulance control centre struggle to deal with a call in Russian.
2024
An ambulance in Inverness attends to a woman found injured on the street, and paramedics race by helicopter to a Scottish island to help a young boy with suspected meningitis.
An ambulance crew in Aberdeen helps an intoxicated man who has fallen down some stairs, while a helicopter crew flies to Islay to help a pregnant woman who is experiencing a bleed.
Paramedics rush to a riding centre where a woman has been kicked in the head by a horse, and a crew in Livingston must help a man who is struggling to breathe.
At the scene of a bomb threat in Glasgow, paramedics race to help a patient to safety. Meanwhile, an ambulance crew in Dundee investigate the cause of a man’s sudden collapse at a bus stop.
Paramedics face a long wait to try to help a man who has barricaded himself in his home. Meanwhile, a crew in Dalkeith races to a play park to help a child with a head injury.
The air ambulance races to a serious road accident near Inveraray, and a crew in Buckie help a woman who was found unconscious in the street in the early hours of the morning.
An ambulance crew in Glasgow attend a stabbing, a fall and a severe mental health crisis. Meanwhile, in Falkirk, a crew works at a multi-vehicle road crash.
An ambulance crew in Peterhead are called to a boy with a head injury, before they later rush to help a person in the water. Meanwhile, a woman in Oban experiences a severe allergic reaction.
A Special Operations Response Team in Paisley attend a serious house fire, and an ambulance crew race to assist a pregnant woman who has been assaulted.
An ambulance crew in Paisley are called to a man who may have suffered a stroke, while medics in Glasgow race to a hard-to-reach location near the scene of a capsized boat.
