Series 4
10 episodes · 2023
Documentary series following the life-saving work of Scotland’s paramedics.
1Episode 1
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.
2Episode 2
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.
3Episode 3
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.
4Episode 4
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.
5Episode 5
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.
6Episode 6
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.
7Episode 7
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.
8Episode 8
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.
9Episode 9
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.
10Episode 10finale
Paramedics in Livingston attend a road traffic collision, and call handlers at the ambulance control centre struggle to deal with a call in Russian.
