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WOMAN: Ambulance - what's the emergency?

WOMAN 2: Quickly! We're at Southport!

Calm down now... (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)

The Gold Coast, where the lights burn bright and the Sunshine never ends.

While many Aussies call it home...

..every year, 12 million tourists come to play

on this stretch of golden coastline.

He was surfing, when he got bitten on both legs by a shark.

I don't think I'm going in the sea again.

But the good times...

We need some medical staff!

..can often turn ugly.

MAN: Pelvic binder on him, OK?

And when they do...

It may be that you've had a heart attack...

..these are the people you want on your side.

WOMAN: this is Princess Charlotte.

So we've got her a room with a view.

Good.

If this guy doesn't die, there's a good chance

he's going to end up with a horrible brain injury.

Whether you're just visiting... Love you.

..or you live here...

This dude seriously got attacked by a buffalo.

Oh, my god she's biting me.

Are we getting any sort of a blood pressure out of this?

He could still lose this leg.

These are the real stories...

MAN: You OK? Yeah.

..of the cutting-edge medical teams...

Do not move your head.

We need to go in and get that clot out straight away.

Good work, guys!

..who pick you up...

OK, let's get moving.

You may get some chest pain, we're inflating the balloon now.

..patch you up...

Super power!

The fairy dust, it's very magical, and it fixes all sorts of things.

..and put you back in paradise.

Where else would you rather be?

Tonight on Gold Coast Medical...

No-one has seen me without my prosthetic bra. Not even my husband.

Now she bares all... You ready for this?

..for Dr Raja to work his magic.

Sorry. You OK?

Yep. Yep.

Oh, my god, I hope he hasn't fallen down that gap.

Paramedics go off the road to control a confused man.

What's wrong, mate? Hang on. Just relax.

Miracle surgery saves their smallest patient.

There's nothing more awesome than saving children's lives.

I'm feeling happy.

Hey, Johnny. Hey, Terry.

And the crazy plastering team are in for a tricky pull.

Oh, my god.

If you think the Gold Coast is a great place to be a plastic surgeon,

you're right.

But for the hospital's head of plastic surgery, Dr Raja Sawhney,

it's not all about making the locals bigger or more beautiful.

The cosmetic surgery side of it is quite interesting

but the reconstructive surgery side, I find much more rewarding

and interesting and challenging.

Like breast surgery when I'm doing a reconstruction

for someone from breast cancer.

I have to have artistic ability to make it aesthetically pleasing,

otherwise it would take away from the result.

Dr Raja's next patient is 46-year-old mum Tracy.

She had both breasts removed due to cancer.

Before I start any breast reconstruction,

I take an interest into that patient's life

because otherwise

you can't give them the best reconstruction for that person.

After the trauma of the mastectomy and chemotherapy,

Tracy was reluctant to have Raj do a breast reconstruction.

I had decided not to have it and I went to my last appointment

to see him and tell him that I didn't want it done.

And he's got a very nice bedside manner

and he said, "No, it'll be easy."

Of course it's easy for him - he's holding the knife.

Eventually, Tracy came round to the idea

of improving the look of her bust.

It's the worst looking thing you'll ever see in your life.

No-one apart from the plastic surgeon or the nurses

has seen me without my prosthetic bra.

Not even my husband.

I actually taped up our mirrors for quite some time.

I had black plastic halfway down the mirrors

so you could only see from the shoulders up.

After five years relying on prosthetic breasts

to give her a feminine shape,

Tracy has had enough.

I'm always saying to my husband, "Are they level?

"Are they in the same spot on each side?"

You're forever walking down the street

and you get your hands and you just move them around

and the kids will go, "Mum, really? You're in the supermarket."

"Yeah, OK."

These aren't proper prosthetic bathers,

but you learn to...

..compromise 'cause you wanna look pretty.

And all the other bathers are for old nanas.

It has controlled my life for five years.

And its controlled my kids' life and my husband's life

and I'd be quite happy just to move on and forget about it.

Down on the beach, watching them, in my bathers,

not feeling self-conscious, that will be a good day.

Every year in Australia,

around 200 people die as a result of workplace injuries.

That's four people a week.

It's an alarming statistic.

But it doesn't surprise Gold Coast paramedics Dane Barnard

and Trent Croxford.

(SIREN WAILS)

So, we're going to a 38-year-old male who has fallen off a ladder.

He's got... patient injured head back and neck.

Patient fell approximately 3 metres.

He's ALOC, bleeding from the head so that's where we're heading to.

There you go.

From ear. Oh, Jesus.

So we've got bleeding from the ear as well

which could be a head injury, alright?

If the man is bleeding from the ear,

it could mean he has a life-threatening brain injury.

My god, I hope he hasn't fallen down that gap.

Where are we going, guys?

He's standing up, mate, so...

The injured man is Stephen.

Despite plummeting 3 metres to the ground,

he's up on his feet and walking around.

But he appears extremely dazed and confused.

So, how long ago did it happen?

10 min? Do you remember how you landed?

Um, no, I have no idea. I don't know what the hell...

Do you know where you are you are at the moment?

Um, not really.

We're going to lay you down.

We're going to put a collar on your neck there, alright?

So just sit down nice and...

Even though he has walked away from the scene of the accident...

Hang on - let's look at your ear, mate.

..he may still have a serious neck or spinal injury.

So fitting a spinal collar is the first job.

Nice and still, mate. Nice and still.

Do you wanna just cut his shirt off while we're here quickly?

Other than that pain in your head, do you have any chest pain?

Any other arm or leg pain?

Just watch your hand.

Obviously when you fell, you walked anyway.

Any other pain anywhere as such?

Nuh? Cool, mate. Cool.

His confused state of mind is one thing

but with blood still dripping from his ear,

Dane and Trent know they could be dealing with a major head injury

and they need urgent back-up.

Thanks, mate. GCS14, patient is bleeding from internal ears.

All going well,

Corinne and her husband Rossco

will be expecting their first baby in seven weeks.

Hello! How are you? Good. How are you?

They didn't want any surprises but life doesn't always go to plan.

So do you know if you're having a boy or a girl?

A boy. A boy!

And just two weeks ago, they found out their little man

has a big problem.

His bowel is blocked.

We've had so many different steps to this pregnancy,

it's been kinda... this last few weeks, there's been

two, three, four things a week, constantly.

As soon as the baby is born,

he will need immediate surgery so he can feed.

One, two days after he's born,

they'll put him under and do that surgery.

But, yeah, I mean, we've been consulted

by nine different specialists today,

like, it's been kind of excessive,

but we're kinda prepared for everything, yeah.

Babies normally start drinking the fluid from their mum's tummy

from around 15 weeks

to help get their digestive tract going.

But because the of the blockage, he can't swallow any of it.

So the fluid builds up.

At this stage, we're not 100% clear at what level that blockage is,

and in Corinne's baby's case,

the amniotic fluid that the baby can swallow and will go into the stomach

empty into that duodenum.

But because it's got no way out, there's a blockage somewhere

that stretches and gets bigger.

So today Dr David Ellwood and midwife Tionie Newth

will drain two litres of the fluid out of the amniotic sac.

WOMAN: So, Corinne, you understand what we're about to do?

Yes. Put a little needle in and then leave the catheter part in

and then remove the fluid.

Yes. Excellent.

Yes! It is cold. It's freezing!

MAN: We keep this in the freezer especially.

To make the pregnant ladies uncomfortable.

OK, now I'm gonna pop the needle in.

If the fluid was left to build up, Corinne would go into early labour.

But the drainage is also risky.

WOMAN: One of the biggest risk factors

is that the woman can go into preterm labour,

because we have gone through the uterus, into the sac.

Essentially, the bag of waters around the baby can rupture

and she can go into labour.

But no-one wants that to happen today

because if their little boy comes early,

he could be too tiny to cope with corrective surgery.

Are you OK? What's wrong?

I just feel, like, um, a little bit of pain in there.

That'll be a contraction. Yeah.

(INHALES SHARPLY) Argh!

47-year-old Tracy had both breasts removed five years ago

as part of a treatment of cancer.

It will take two major surgeries reconstruct new breasts

and it's a process that Tracy has been dreading.

Alrighty, Tracy, how are you, darling?

(SIGHS) Good.

Good.

You ready for this?

Nuh.

Can you stand up for me, darling? Sure.

No-one has seen me without my prosthetic bra.

Not even my husband.

Sorry, darling.

That's a horrible feeling.

You OK? Yep.

Yep. OK, won't be long now.

I can do this for me.

Not for anybody else.

I can do this for me.

If Dr Raja can successfully reconstruct Tracy's breasts

it will heal some of the physical and emotional scars

since her brush with cancer.

When we do the nipple reconstruction...

Dr Raja Sawhney begins the first stage of a reconstruction

by marking Tracy's chest where he wants her new breasts to be.

For the next few months,

Tracy will have temporary expanders under her skin.

So we put them in flat, deflated, we put them in under the wounds

where the breast base is.

Expanders in today, a couple of weeks to heal

then we'll start filling them up full of fluid,

then you'll have breast volume

and you can help us decide what you want as far as volume is concerned.

What the expanders are there for

is to create a bigger soft tissue envelope

or skin envelope, if you like.

Because she's flat chested,

I can't go and put implants straight in.

Alright, nice and neat.

We can stretch all the skin and then we can go in

and put the definitive silicone implants,

which are longer lasting, more durable,

and that will give her better breast shape overall,

and feel.

Raja makes a pocket on each side under the skin and pectoral muscles

large enough to fit the expanders.

The air is removed from inside each expander balloon,

and then Raja squeezes them into the envelope he's prepared.

Once the wounds are closed,

the first injection of saline solution begins the transformation...

and Tracy's new chest takes shape.

Argh!

Corinne and Rossco's baby boy is due in seven weeks.

His mum and dad just found out he has a blockage in his bowel

that must be operated on as soon as he's born.

Really well.

It's causing a build-up of amniotic fluid in Corinne's womb

that needs to be drained.

But this type of procedure can also cause premature contractions.

Are you OK? What's wrong?

I just feel, like, um, a little bit of pain in there.

The uterus starts to contract around where the needle is

and gives you a sharp pain there.

As the slow process goes on,

Corinne's pain levels rise.

Argh!

Big contraction, that one.

(INHALES SHARPLY) Argh!

Try not to move your legs, sweetie.

Each bottle reduces the pressure, but the pain is causing contractions.

Argh! (INHALES SHARPLY)

Your baby's deciding to have a big wriggle.

Come on, baby, no, no, no, no.

Very inquisitive little man.

He gets that from his father.

We're getting quite a collection there.

With another 50, we must be getting close to the two litres.

Yep.

After an hour of agony, the contractions safely pass.

..or you're not really sure, it's better just to come in.

They took 2.3 litres of fluid off in the end,

so that was a lot, but I feel so much relief and he's a lot smaller,

so that's a good thing.

More painful than I thought it was gonna be, but worth it -

everything's over now.

There were so many bottles. There's, like, seven bottles.

Half-litre bottles. That was ridiculous.

But just a few weeks later, Corinne is back in hospital.

Hold it. Longer. Longer. Longer. Longer. Longer. Longer.

This time, in labour a month before her due date

and it's not going well.

Might just come out. (GRUNTS)

Nuh, it's not gonna happen.

Her little baby boy has no intention of coming out.

Corinne, do you mind if we re-examine you?

No.

She's been pushing for 1.5 hours now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Normally, we recommend pushing for no longer than two hours.

We're getting up close to that mark.

The next step is to use a vacuum grip attached to the baby's head.

You still have to work exactly as hard as you've been working

and what happens is that little cap goes on his head,

OK, and then as you push, Dr Luke will pull.

And it's gonna deflex his head a little bit

and it just makes the diameter a bit smaller,

so that he comes out

but you still have to really, really work.

The vacuum should work, but it won't be the easy delivery

Corinne was hoping for.

Ready when you are. OK.

Take a deep breath, big push, all your energy right down.

Push, push, push.

(GROANS AND PANTS)

Gold Coast construction worker Stephen

has plunged 3 metres off a ladder

onto the ground, hitting his back, neck and head.

Nice and still, mate. Nice and still.

I'll just cut his shirt off.

He looks like he's landed on his left side.

He's a bit confused, got a few injuries,

but we're just trying to determine that, so...

Critical care paramedic Jaye Newton

has just arrived on the scene after receiving a call to assist

with a major trauma.

Where does it hurt?

Right across my back down the back there.

Do you remember what happened?

I really don't understand, no.

The bleeding from Stephen's ear

suggests there could be damage to his brain.

It's critical they get his pain under control

and stable enough to transport him to Emergency.

OK, Steve, gonna be a sharp scratch on your arm, OK?

So it looks like he's come down on the left side,

so he's hit to the left side of his head.

And his left arm's got grazing, so it sounds like he's sort of...

Putting them down as he goes.

Thanks, Comms.

(SPEAKS UNINTELLIGIBLY)

Can you remember falling yet?

You got a memory of how you fell or what happened?

Trent continues to test Steve's memory.

Can you remember landing on your feet?

Not really. OK, mate.

Stephen is still unable to remember anything from the accident,

and he is becoming increasingly more agitated.

Can I just turn around that way because that... (BLEEP)

What's wrong, mate? What's wrong? Try and keep straight for us.

Steve, try and keep straight, mate. Try and keep straight.

Steve, try and keep your neck still, mate.

(BLEEP) I gotta try and get this...

(BLEEP) Why the (BLEEP) is that...

Steve, just relax, mate. Just relax.

With Steve now fighting the spinal collar and becoming more aggressive,

the convoy of paramedics have no choice

but to pull over to the side of the road

to get the situation under control.

(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)

Alright.

(POP MUSIC PLAYS)

Now, can I borrow 50ml of normal saline never to be returned?

Mum of three Tracy had both breasts removed because of cancer.

Today, plastic surgeon Dr Raja Sawhney

is giving her the chest she's only dared to dream of.

Over the ensuing six to eight weeks

we'll slowly inflate that expander up to a reasonable volume.

The gradual process will stretch skin pockets

on each side of Tracy's chest,

then expanders are swapped out for permanent silicone implants.

I like to involve my patients with decision-making

what size and shape they want,

because that gives them an ownership of what we're doing for them

and involves them in their care, essentially, in their restoration

of what they want.

We get happier patients that way

and it goes to reason

that they should be involved with the decision-making process

since it's really their body.

Tracy is hoping to end up with a D-cup bust.

So there will need to be several more top-ups with saline solution

over the coming months.

It's always nice for them to wake up with some fluid in there

and see that there is a bit of breast tissue.

It makes them feel that the procedure was worthwhile.

She's got probably an A cup breast out of that,

especially on her athletic build, she'll feel that.

A couple of weeks' time, we'll probably put another 100ml in

and then two weeks after that, 100ml-150ml

and it should practically be reasonably at where she wants to be.

A fortnight later,

Tracy is well on the way to achieving her ideal bust size.

Wednesday just gone they put in another 100ml.

Two more visits, 120ml each

and I'll be done.

I have a cleavage.

I don't have to wear a bra - it's just me,

which is nice.

Best of all, her new body means it's time for a whole new wardrobe.

Dressy dress or casual?

Dressy dress.

OK. Yes.

This is new in, the Shona Joy.

Would you like to try something like that?

That is nice.

There's also this style here, which is strapless as well

with a bit of a V-plunge at the front.

How about a red dress?

Look, you never knock back a red dress.

OK, we've got one for you.

Something like this?

Thank you. You're welcome.

When the final silicon implants are in place,

Tracy wants to be ready to party.

OK, what do you think this of this one?

It does look lovely, though.

It does look lovely and you know what?

I'm gonna cry. Sorry. That's alright!

It's the first time in 4.5 years

I've had an address on with no prosthetic boobs,

with no bra, with no crop top.

So it's a bit overwhelming. It's all you. Yep.

My husband used to always say, "You're beautiful anyway,"

but he walked in the other night

after Wednesday, having them expanded,

and he walked in and he went, "Oh, my god they're huge."

And I said, "Hang on, they're only half done."

He said, "Really?" He wants to play with them.

Ooh. This one's lovely too.

I think he's happy because he can see a change in me.

I'm a lot more comfortable within myself.

I am glad I did it.

It's a wedding dress, a race day dress.

Date night dress. Ladies' luncheon. Date night.

I can wear almost anything I like now,

and that, as much as it is very overwhelming,

it made me feel good.

The cleavage and being able to wear something a little bit lower,

I don't want to say it

but yeah, it does, it makes me feel like a girl again.

A girly girl.

It takes all sorts to work at a hospital

and without a doubt, these two are an odd couple.

Hey, Johnny. Hey, Terry.

Morning.

Orthopaedic technician Terry Kelly

and his good mate John Evans have been plastering broken bones

for over 30 years.

Can you speak up? This phone is bodgy. What have you got?

Today is clinic day,

which means that every patient that needs a cast set or repaired

pays them a visit.

Tuesday's usually complete bedlam.

You can have up to 100, 200 patients coming through.

So you never know what's coming around the corner.

OK, what do you need me to do?

The main thing is to relax your leg and don't try and lift

let us lift, 'cause if lift those bones and they pop out,

we get very upset.

OK.

Started off as a nurse

became an orthopaedic nurse in the orthopaedic ward,

then I started running orthopaedic clinics at the Royal Brisbane

and Royal Children's and stuff,

and now I'm actually a fellow of the Institute.

Even so, Terry is the first to admit

that these could well be his twilight working years.

I am 56 now, so I've got that many years left. (LAUGHS) Yeah.

But for now, Terry's got to patch up a carpenter

who snapped his thumb bone playing footy.

It's resting nice and gently on a nice comfy pillow,

above the level of the heart,

that keeps the circulation good.

Heal it up real quick.

As long as I can go have a beer.

Well, don't be grabbing too many beers

until you see the orthopaedic doctor.

With decades of nursing and plastering under his belt,

Terry knows his stuff.

You ever have Bees Knees? WOMAN: What's Bees Knees?

Bees Knees is the oldest beer made in Australia.

Have you ever heard of the term 'he's the bees knees'?

It actually comes from that beer. Yeah, right.

It's made from the knees of bees.

You know the pollen that comes from the knees of bees?

They actually make the beer from that.

How do you know all this stuff, mate?

I have had a few beers. (LAUGHS)

(PHONE RINGS)

But the laughs soon stop as Terry gets a call

about a young bloke who's come off his mountain bike,

badly dislocating his elbow.

If it stays dislocated like that for too much longer,

yeah, he could bleed to death, he could have his arm crippled,

and it could kill him.

It's gonna go kinda in your arm, Steve.

Paramedic Trent Croxford is struggling to keep his patient

under control

en route to the Gold Coast University Hospital.

What's wrong, mate? What's wrong?

(BLEEP) I gotta try and get this...

Steve, just relax, mate. Just relax, OK?

His patient, 38-year-old Stephen

has fallen 3 metres off a ladder at a building site

and has become so agitated,

the team of paramedics have pulled over to calm him down.

917, yeah?

Steve, try and keep your head and your neck nice and still, mate.

Open your eyes. Take it easy, mate.

We're looking after you, alright?

With a suspected brain injury,

it's critical they get their patient to hospital immediately.

Every second they stall here at the side of the road,

could impact his chances of recovery.

Still haemorrhaging out of that ear, eh?

Jaye, you've still got active bleed out of there, internal.

Hang on, Steve, Steve. Why do you want it off?

Just talking and going that way and getting...

Unfortunately, we can't let you... Hang on, Steve.

Steve, you have to lie flat on your back, mate.

We can't let you lie that way.

Critical care paramedic Jaye Newton

administers the heavy pain sedative ketamine

to get him under control.

We're just trying to get you to the hospital as best we can, eh?

(SIREN WAILS)

So our concern for him

is that it is bleeding on the inside and continues to bleed,

that his brain could start to swell

and then he could have a significant head injury from that.

What he needs is a CT scan to have a look at what's going on.

(SIREN WAILS) Nice and still, mate.

Paramedics Trent and Jay have had their hands full

trying to treat a construction worker who has fallen on his head

with a life-threatening bleeding from the ear.

On arrival, patient was walking around,

walked to the bed.

Two, three.

..vagueness en route, mainly due to agitation,

possibly because of his injuries.

He's got bleeding coming from the left ear,

appears to be some sort of... haematoma

on that, sort of, left, just behind that ear there.

Do you feel sick? Tell us if you feel sick.

Before he can be sent for CT scan of his brain,

Dr Rajesh and the emergency team

need to assess his level of consciousness

and physical injuries.

RAJESH: Can you give us your date of birth?

Eh? Your birthday?

(MUTTERS)

That's alright, mate.

Hang on, hang on, hang on. Where you going?

Stay still, mate.

Stephen, where is it sore?

Still in a highly agitated state,

another dose of the dissociative drug ketamine is given

to ensure Stephen doesn't become combative during the scans.

It's imperative he stay calm and remain still.

Extensive 3-D imaging will reveal if the bleeding from his ear

as a result of a potentially life-threatening bleeding

on his brain.

Can you see the skull fracture that runs through there?

From there, that's not supposed to be there.

That's what you call a base of skull fracture.

He'll be going under the neurosurgeons,

but we still have to look at the other injuries.

The medicals team call Steve's family to relay the news.

He's OK at the moment and obviously he'll need to stay with us.

I'm not sure if he'll need an operation or anything at this point.

Um, but, er, at the moment, he's OK.

But, you know, we're worried enough about him, as you are.

RAJESH: He's stable right now.

The major injuries got is an isolated head injury,

he's got a skull fracture

and there is a small bleed as well.

And as well, he might have injured his lower back as well.

Right now, he's stable.

He'll be admitted under the neurosurgeons.

I think, to him, there is actually a long road ahead

even if he gets over this acute problem.

It's what we would call a moderately severe head injury,

just because he's got the fracture there

and he's got some blood inside his head.

But at the moment he still awake and alert and talking to us

so, you know, these are good signs.

But a way to go.

Steve amazed doctors with the speed of his recovery

and after four weeks, was home walking into a normally.

(PHONE RINGS)

Hi, it's Terry at the orthopaedic team.

It's been a hectic day already for the orthopaedic technicians,

but with 30 years of experience behind him,

Master plasterer Terry

takes it all in his stride.

Tuesday is usually complete bedlam.

You can have up to 100, 200 patients coming through.

He's on his way to see Mountain biker Gareth who has just crash-landed.

I was riding along and I did a jump and the handle bar snapped

and I feel like my arm went underneath my body

and I rolled over it.

Luckily for Gareth,

his riding buddy Justin wasn't too far away.

I heard a loud scream and I knew he wasn't in good shape

because he never screams.

I knew something happened.

X-rays ordered by Dr Elian show a nasty dislocation of his elbow.

And also a fragment of bone which has broken off on impact.

I'm not even sure if I'm going to be able to do my job.

I need both arms to be an electrician, really.

So yeah, the boss is going to be happy about that.

So I'll give you some more pain relief now.

And we'll get started.

Helping Terry get Gareth's elbow back into position is intern Andrew Little

and resident Elizabeth Sheffield.

And lucky for them, they'll be learning from the best.

When you're going to sleep,

focus on something that makes you really happy -

sometimes you have really cool dreams.

Let's go to my happy place.

An injury like this dislocated elbow

is extremely painful.

I've called it 'diversion therapy' for the last 30 years,

'cause they know they're in a bad situation,

so if they can focus on something else, something pleasant

your brain can even take that away a little bit,

and you can cope a bit better.

..traction for now, OK?

You got a really good grip?

Just do what you gotta do, guys.

We'll put you a little bit more to sleep.

Hold that down.

But the drugs aren't working.

OH! My god.

Gareth and his mate Justin were mountain biking on Mount Tambourine

when Gareth came off is bike, badly dislocating his elbow.

There's also a small piece of bone that's broken

off one of the bones in your elbow.

So for sure, it needs to be put back in place.

But even in the experienced hands of orthopaedic technician Terry,

the task of getting it back into position

is proving tricky.

You'll feel a click.

How are you doing at the moment? OK? Hold his arm down that way.

That'll help you.

There, you're doing fine.

There we go.

You need a minimum of three people to get that arm back in.

You need one holding that end, one holding the other end,

and another guy... it's really difficult.

Hold it there, this'll do it.

If somebody really hangs on there, you do the full thing.

And really pull down.

OH! My god. Like that.

When you feel it click past the end, just let go.

So if I get the hand... Yep.

Are we sure it's this low?

(GROANS)

(GROANS)

Just, you know, with those fractured bits?

I just wanna be sure before we go up.

Yeah, for sure.

It'll be subtle. Will it come up? Do we have flexion?

It feels pretty good. I think it's back in already.

It looks good in there.

With a bit more tugging than they first anticipated,

it's job done.

But it wasn't exactly the view

that friend Justin had planned taking in today.

It wasn't that easy to watch. They did go pretty hard on his arm.

I got a few photos, so... He won't believe it.

All that's left for Terry to do now

is wrap the elbow in plaster.

It's all better now.

ELIAN: We're really happy. It went very well.

He's probably gonna be sore tomorrow,

although the pain should be better with the reduction done now.

There's something about when it clicks and comes in,

yeah, it's a good feeling.

It's a team effort and if we can have somebody with a rating 10,

which is the worst pain imaginable,

and we get them in a nice comfy cast within ten minutes,

they're down to a pain level of zero

and they're walking out the door really happy.

So instead of us spending a lot of money having people in hospital,

if they've got a nice comfy cast on and they know what to do,

they can be home with their family resting it up,

taking it easy.

So, ready when you are, take a deep breath.

Push all your energy right down.

Corinne is one month away from her due date

but nobody told her little baby boy, who is on his way today.

Unfortunately, the vacuum keeps coming off

so I'm just gonna slide some forceps around the baby's head instead.

OK.

If baby can't be delivered with forceps,

then the only option is an emergency Caesarean.

Either way, it's a tiring and traumatic experience for her baby,

who will then have to go through surgery

to fix the blockage in his bowel.

Argh! Sorry about that.

Can I push him now? Can I? If you've got the urge to.

Do I need... (BREATHES)

Yeah. OK. Push.

Nice and slow.

(GROANS)

WOMAN: Take a breath for me, Corinne.

And some nice little puffs for me.

That's his head, darling.

Another push. Another push, Corinne.

(STRAINS)

After more than 20 hours, finally their little fella arrives.

You were a bit twisted there, mate.

Oh!

You were a bit twisted there!

Hello!

(BABY CRIES)

Oh! Look how big he is!

Hello! Hey!

(BABY CRIES)

At last Corinne and Rossco

can enjoy the first moments with their baby boy.

(CRIES)

And his name is?

Chase Benjamin Patterson.

But their joy is clouded by the knowledge that baby Chase

can't drink any milk

because nothing can pass through his digestive tract.

It's good to finally have him here

and we can go on to the next step

of, yeah, just making sure he's OK and, yeah.

You made it a bit tricky!

But that's OK.

Until the surgical team opens up Chase's tiny tummy,

there's no way of knowing exactly what's causing the blockage

or how to fix it.

Got him out in the end, didn't we?

After a long and difficult delivery,

little baby Chase has been taken for life-saving surgery

on his blocked bowel.

It's now over to the leader in paediatric surgery,

Dr Deborah Bailey.

Unless Dr Bailey can find and repair the blockage,

Chase will be unable to swallow and digest any food.

That's it there.

You can see that this is enormous.

It's all just one big dilated mess.

It's an anxious wait for new parents Corinne and Rossco.

Deborah Bailey, who's the surgeon,

has done the surgery for 25 years

and not had challenges, so I'm good, I'm solid.

That's a good enough fact to keep my brain safe.

Yeah.

The problem we always have with this is that the anatomy is abnormal,

so we can't work out what's what.

That's a nasty, nasty bit of bowel.

So large.

Little Chase had a gap in the bowel called the duodenum

which is around the pancreas,

which is just after the stomach.

And you can have a partial, a full gap - in fact, he had a full gap.

And because you swallow fluid before you're born,

and it's not going anywhere,

his stomach and duodenum were getting bigger and bigger.

Stomach, stomach, stomach.

And there's nothing where there should be something.

Our job is to find the ends

so that we can work out whether we can join them together.

Everything is obviously very small,

the anatomy and the way they react to things is different from adults.

They can be born with things wrong with them

so that's something that paediatric surgeons do,

dealing with things

which haven't quite formed properly before they're born

and correcting that, if possible.

So I'm getting the feeling this is...

um... around here might actually be our end.

Right.

It takes Deborah half an hour of careful looking and planning

to figure out how to remove a malformed section of bowel

and join up the ends.

I know that is coming along quite nicely.

So that means my anastomoses will be from there to there.

Yep.

Lovely, thank you.

Let's make some holes.

Thank you.

There's nothing more awesome than saving children's lives.

(LAUGHS)

I'm feeling happy.

I can feel where it's all coming together now.

Although the blockage in Chase's bowel is large,

it comes out easily and the bowel is repaired.

The operation went very well.

Were very happy that we were able to fix the gap in the bowel

in one operation.

And the baby has also coped with the operation very well.

It's not over yet.

We've got a couple of stormy weeks to get over the operation,

make sure there is no complications.

It's scary for these first-time parents,

but a relief the surgery is over.

The baby has done very well from the anaesthetic and the operation.

We did find duodenal intrusion

and you'll be pleased to know there is no stomas

there's plenty of bowel...

Awesome. Thank you.

It's really good to be on the other side of one, the birth,

and two, the operation,

so hopefully everything goes smoothly now

and yeah, we'll take it from here just go... still day by day,

but yeah...

Yes! (BOTH LAUGH)

It's exciting.

It's like now we can have bigger challenges like breastfeeding

and I don't know...

His screaming in the middle of the night.

Just feel like more normal challenges to face,

which will be fun.

Finally Corinne and Rossco can relax and enjoy their special baby boy.

You did good, kid.

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