Emergency: First Time Medics
Based at The Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Emergency: First Time Medics will focus on newly qualified doctors, known as Senior House Officers (SHOs), as they are thrown into the deep end at the start of their year-long placement on the NHS frontline.
Episodes
Episode 1
Day 1 in the Emergency Department for the junior doctors. Hira loses a patient, Claire looks after a seriously ill man with a broken hip, and Zak treats a woman who's fallen off her horse.
Episode 2
Junior Doctor Alex handles a paracetamol overdose, and a high-risk heart patient. Adnan braves his first shift in Resus, and Claire deals with a woman in agonising stomach pain.
Episode 3
Week 2 in the ED for the junior doctors. Adrian does a tricky blood test on a critically-ill patient, and Tej spots something worrying some test results, meaning his patient needs life-saving surgery.
Episode 4
Claire confronts her fears with her first child patient. Tejas steps up to his first trauma case - a man badly injured in an assault. And Adrian takes the plunge with his first chest drain.
Episode 5
It's the night shift for the junior doctors. Adrian's ego takes a hit as he bites off more than he can chew, and Ese has to solve the mystery of a patient's unexplained collapse.
Episode 6
It's Reading Festival weekend! Tej treats a 17 year old crushed in a mosh pit, Adrian deals with an 18 year old who's struggling to breathe and Tristan witnesses his first ever seizure.
Episode 7
The junior doctors are nearing the end of their first month in the busy Emergency Department, and are being given increasingly complex cases. Christine (pictured) handles a mysterious fall case, and Adrian learns how to set a broken ankle. Alex helps a child who's been hit by a car, and Claire deals with a woman with agonising chest pain.
Episode 8
With a month under their belts, the junior doctors are growing in confidence. Just as well, as they face up to some of their most challenging cases.
Episode 9
When the hospital’s computer system goes down, it causes mayhem for the interns. Tej attends to two critically ill patients in resuscitation while Zak helps a man who may have suffered a mini-stroke.
Episode 10
Zak treats a 90-year-old woman after paramedics gave her CPR, Tristan gets a diagnosis spot-on, and Christine has a patient with an alarming combination of symptoms.
