ERI: Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Season 1 Episode 6: EPISODE: 6

  The hospital's surgeons face a race against time to save patients needing liver transplants. During a severe shortage of organs in Scotland, nine people on the waiting list have already died. The programme follows 69-year-old Chris Devlin as he receives chemotherapy for a tumour. Last in series

• Season 1 Episode 5: EPISODE: 5

  A behind-the-scenes glimpse inside the hospital's heart and lung unit as it deals with some of the most critically ill patients in Scotland. Surgeons must remember what's at stake, while for the patients themselves the decision to go under the knife may be the most difficult one of their lives

• Season 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4

  A glimpse behind the scenes of the hospital's orthopaedic unit. Staff deal with everything from an operation to remove a life-threatening cancer from a 20-year-old would-be student to a range of patients with bone problems and the 1,100 elderly people who attend each year with broken wrists

• Season 1 Episode 3: EPISODE: 3

  A behind-the-scenes glimpse of patients undergoing treatment for kidney problems. Two patients arrive at the hospital to receive desperately needed new organs, while another is admitted for surgery on a malignant tumour. However, not every operation provides the desired result

• Season 1 Episode 2: EPISODE: 2

  A glimpse of life inside the hospital's orthopaedic unit. As the trauma team battle with the daily torrent of accident victims, from car crash casualties to paragliding enthusiasts failing to stay aloft, rheumatoid arthritis sufferers are given a new lease of life with artificial joint replacements

• Season 1 Episode 1: EPISODE: 1

  A behind-the-scenes glimpse of life inside the hospital, featuring heart-wrenching stories of patients struggling to survive. The first episode features heart and lung patients in the Cardiothoracic Unit, including an emergency operation to save a man 48 hours from death