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Cameras follow Great Ormond Street Hospital's doctors as they come face-to-face with the most difficult ethical dilemmas on a daily basis

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Great Ormond Street: Series 2: Episode 3: Buying Time

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A look at the work of Great Ormond Street's heart transplant team.

A look at the work of Great Ormond Street's heart transplant team and the revolutionary artificial heart that keeps the patients alive until they can have a transplant.

This episode focuses on Great Ormond Street's heart transplant team. Every year, the number of donor hearts decreases: safer roads, better intensive care and a society reluctant to donate means fewer hearts and longer waits for children for whom transplant is the last resort. The Berlin Heart is a revolutionary machine that keeps these children alive. However, it's a precarious existence as the machine can only buy them time until the rare gift of a heart is made.

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