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Air Medics: The Golden Hour

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22/10/2008

The Golden Hour

BBC One - Air Medics, The Golden Hour

The teams race to help a passenger hurt in a head-on collision, and a heart attack victim.

A look at the work of the Great North Air Ambulance. The teams race to help a passenger injured in a head-on collision, and a heart attack victim on a mountain.

Get ready to be propelled into the skies for the ride of your life in this brand new, high octane, helicopter emergency ambulance series set in the stunning landscape of the North of England. 

The Great North Air Ambulance's three helicopters carry specialist trauma doctors and paramedics to some of the most remote parts of Britain's landscape reaching seriously injured patients in minutes. Air Medics follows every gritty moment with camera directors on scene and multiple mini-cams on board, combined with air to air filming recorded in High Definition. As a result, this series is a mixture of mind-blowing cinematic landscapes with heart-warming stories of survival, and extraordinary feats performed by ordinary, local heroes. 

Today the clock is ticking for the crews of all three helicopters, as they strive to reach and treat seriously injured patients within what's known as the Golden Hour. If a patient can't be treated within the first sixty minutes of their accident, their chances of survival will plummet. 

But often hurdles get in the way of the doctors and paramedics, dramatically slowing down the time it takes to get to a patient. Lee is a rear seat passenger in a car which has been in a fast head on crash on the A1. He's lost sensation from the chest down and Dr Simon le Clerc needs to get to him fast - but first he has to wait patiently for the fire crews to safely extract Lee from the car. 

In Cumbria, Alan has suffered a possible heart attack and Dr Suzie needs to get to him immediately. But Alan is halfway up a mountain, where the helicopter is struggling to land. The crews are pushed to the limit to treat their patients within the Golden Hour, sometimes several times in the same day - a measure of their true dedication to saving our lives.

Series following the work of the Great North Air Ambulance team.

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