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Series 8

Season 8 · 2023 · 9 episodes

Episodes

1Episode 1A patient is rushed into hospital suffering from serious burns, and he needs to be doused with water to try and stop the burns spreading further on his body. Meanwhile, a 74-year-old woman needs an emergency procedure after having a fall at home, and a nine-year-old girl has an X-Ray on her hand to check for any signs of a break
2Episode 2The waiting room in Barnsley Casualty is overflowing today: Resus is crowded and there are no spare beds in the hospital. Sister Jane, who’s running the hub, will have to juggle patients to make room for new emergencies.
3Episode 3Patients include 87-year-old Ralph, who is struggling to breathe, Sallie, an 83-year-old rushed in after having a fall, and Karina who's dislocated her shoulder for the fifth time.
4Episode 4During a busy shift in Resus, a 58-year-old woman arrives by ambulance with a dangerously fast heart rate, and another patient arrives following a suspected drug overdose.
5Episode 5The IT systems have failed, causing chaos, but Casualty still need to treat a motorcycle courier who's had a head-on collision, and a man with severe abdominal pains.
6Episode 6After being knocked off his motorbike on his way to work, 62-year-old Peter is brought and is taken straight into resus, where Dr Chris Yeoman takes the lead on his care. Peter's blood pressure is dangerously low and he's also badly damaged his ankle so he's taken for an urgent CT scan. In Paediatrics, an ambulance rushes in with five-year-old Ruby, who's suffered multiple epileptic seizures and has a high temperature.
7Episode 7No image (yet). « Previous Ep. Next Ep. » It's a hectic start to the afternoon shift for Sister Benita, who's running the hub on her first week back from maternity leave. An ambulance arrives with 75-year-old Barbara, who was rushed in after collapsing in her garden, while Dr Josh Gemmill tends to 78-year-old former miner David, who has a large haematoma on his arm.
8Episode 8Amna, 24, fell face first after collapsing at work and paramedics are concerned about the extent of her head and spinal injuries, so she needs to be urgently assessed. Diabetic David, 53, woke up struggling to breathe with a severely swollen throat, but with his condition worsening he urgently needs to be moved to resus.
9Episode 9Paramedics bring in a woman who has an incurable lung disease known as COPD and is struggling to breathe. Eighty-year-old Michael has walked in after he fell running for a bus and banged his head and goes to the top of Dr Chris Yeoman's list.