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Helen White

Children's Emergency: Episode 5

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Episode 5

BBC One - Children's Emergency, Episode 5

A baby is flown nearly fifteen hundred miles for life-saving surgery.

Series following the work of the Children's Acute Transport Service. A baby is flown nearly 1,500 miles for life-saving surgery; CATS have to work in a cramped Hercules aircraft.

The new series following the life-saving work of the medics of a mobile intensive care service for children continues. The highly specialised emergency teams from the Children's Acute Transport Service, CATS, make sure critically ill children who need intensive care get it, wherever they are. 

A baby is flown nearly fifteen hundred miles for life-saving surgery; CATS have to work in a cramped and noisy Hercules aircraft. They are also called to a toddler who has a massive chest infection; and a little boy has a virus that is attacking his heart.

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Series following the work of the UK's largest mobile children's critical care service.

Documentary series following the life-saving work of the medics of the largest mobile children's critical care service in the UK.

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