Name: Inside the Operating Theatre
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-05-21
Rating: 4.0

Overview

The team at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Norfolk deals with everything from hearts to hernias, sterilisations to squints – and many operations in between. This series that shows lives being changed right in front of viewers’ eyes. For the first time ever, an NHS day surgery unit, its dedicated staff, and even its beds have been rigged with cameras to give a unique view of what goes on behind ward curtains, inside the anaesthetic room and under the knife.

Seasons

Season 1

10 Episodes

2019

E01

Episode 1

5/21/2019

Seven-year-old Nancy has an operation to straighten her squint and ex-Army man Mervyn, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, has a procedure to get rid of constant back pain.

E02

Episode 2

5/28/2019

Anne needs an operation to remove a painful bony lump from her foot and mother-of-four Laura decides to have a sterilisation after suffering from post-natal depression.

E03

Episode 3

6/4/2019

The team tackles a dramatic operation where a patient's heart is stopped and restarted. Zoe has a stent replaced in her ureter, which was damaged by her treatment for cancer.

E04

Episode 4

6/11/2019

Trisha has an investigation of her womb to find out if she has cancer, Steve's varicose veins are stripped from his leg, and Dennis needs an operation to strengthen his eyelid.

E05

Episode 5

6/18/2019

Three-year-old Isaac needs an operation on his tongue, a woman has her toes straightened and part of a toe amputated, and a man has biopsies taken from his prostate.

E06

Episode 6

6/25/2019

Nigel has keyhole surgery to repair his hernia - but things go wrong when he's back on the ward. Carol has a pin removed from her ankle, which was previously fractured.

E07

Episode 7

7/2/2019

A four-year-old girl has her droopy eyelid lifted, a rugby player gets his broken nose reset and a woman has an operation on her wrist after almost a year of agony

E08

Episode 8

7/9/2019

Nick has an ultrasound taken from inside his body to find out if he needs open-heart surgery, and Irene has gel removed from her eye to make her see again.

E09

Episode 9

7/16/2019

Teenager Nathan has two twisted teeth extracted, Bob has keyhole surgery for a groin hernia, and 96-year-old Peggy entertains the team while having a growth removed from her toe.

E10

Episode 10

7/23/2019

Jonathan has a camera put inside his lungs to find out if he has cancer. James needs a knee operation so he can play with his children again, and a growth is removed from Jan's ear.

Season 2

10 Episodes

2019

E01

Episode 1

10/16/2019

A girl has an operation to have squints in both eyes realigned, a man has his infected gall bladder removed and an ex-police officer is having a grommet inserted in her ear.

E02

Episode 2

10/23/2019

A woman has an operation to repair the hernia she suffered while giving birth and a four-year-old's ear blockage is so bad he needs a general anaesthetic to it sucked out

E03

Episode 3

10/30/2019

Dr Fox's fiancée Sally is having an operation to remove her wisdom teeth – leaving him in the visitor's chair, Brian is having a double hernia repaired and Joyce has the first of two cataract operations to help her see properly.

E04

Episode 4

11/6/2019

Peter has been flown home from holiday for an urgent operation to repair a detached retina, Tony has a leaky vein which has caused an ulcer in his leg, and 14-yearold Izzy has a canine tooth which hasn't descended properly and needs exposing.

E05

Episode 5

11/13/2019

Lyn has an investigation of her womb after a recent biopsy revealed abnormal cells, Steve is worried about only getting a local anaesthetic before his varicose veins are removed and 23-year-old gym fanatic Rhys is having a hernia repaired.

E06

Episode 6

11/20/2019

Julia has a camera investigation of her womb to find out the reason for her heavy bleeding, Emma has a rare painful foot condition so needs an operation to remove a section of bone and Peter's having his badly broken nose reset.

E07

Episode 7

11/27/2019

Today, 21-year-old Ben has lost 11 stone but now needs his gallbladder removed as a result, AJ is in agony with compressed nerves in her toes and needs an operation to free them and David is in hospital to have a carcinoma removed from his eyelid.

E08

Episode 8

12/4/2019

Former RAF servicewoman Connie is in hospital to have a polyp removed from her womb, Carl will be wide awake while he has keyhole operation to remove torn cartilage from his knee and Brad is having a varicose vein stripped from his leg.

E09

Episode 9

12/11/2019

8-year-old Luke is having an operation to straighten his squint, Brian needs an ultrasound taken from inside his lung to confirm whether he has cancer and new mum Paige is having her wisdom teeth removed.

E10

Episode 10

12/18/2019

15-year-old Thomas has 4 baby teeth that haven't fallen out and need removing, Les is having his urethra widened so that a camera can pass into his bladder to check his cancer hasn't returned and Lesley needs an operation to stop her persistent nose bleeds.

Inside the Operating Theatre(2019)

Overview

Seasons

Season 1

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Season 2

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

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Season 1

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