Ambulance: Code Red — Season 1

Documentary following emergency response teams in the West Midlands on their most extreme medical callouts, often involving roadside surgery to save people's lives.

A West Midlands critical care team is called to a road traffic accident in which a 13-year-old boy has been knocked over on the way to school, and now has blood coming out of one ear.

Critical care paramedic Rob and doctor Adam fight to save the life of a boy who has been stabbed in the street. The 16-year-old has been knifed in the neck, has lost a significant amount of blood and is struggling to breathe. Elsewhere, Tom Waters is dispatched to 30-year-old bricklayer Daniel, who has sliced his arm with a power saw. He was cutting timber on a workbench using an angle grinder with a circular blade when he lost control and it sliced through his right hand.

Critical care paramedic Pete Edwards and the Midlands Air Ambulance Trauma Team are dispatched to give lifesaving treatment to a 21-year-old motorcyclist who has been thrown off his bike, with his helmet also coming off in the impact. Elsewhere, Rob Davis battles to save the life of an 80-year-old who is in cardiac arrest on his driveway, and the team is called to a man who has collapsed with a suspected heart attack and is showing symptoms of Covid-19.

Dr Ben Taylor and critical care paramedic Aiden Brown work with the the fire and ambulance services to rescue an 11-year-old boy trapped in the wreckage of a car he was a passenger in. After a nasty tackle on the rugby pitch, 40- year-old Dave is left with a horrific break to his foot and critical care paramedic Pete Edwards must manually realign the bones as quickly as possible, but it's an excruciating procedure.

A car driver is seriously injured and the paramedics perform life-saving treatment and put him into an induced coma at the roadside.

A desperate 999 call comes in from a woman passenger who is seriously injured after being thrown out of a car when it careered off the road and smashed into trees.

Critical Care Paramedic Fay is despatched to the scene of a serious motorbike crash and Ambulance control receive an emergency call reporting a man collapsed in a churchyard.

Critical Care Paramedic Fay is despatched to the scene of a serious motorbike crash and Ambulance control receive an emergency call reporting a man collapsed in a churchyard.

Paramedic Jack attends the scene of a double stabbing in Birmingham. In Shrewsbury, a driver has collapsed after crashing his car into a lamp post and a tree.