The surgeons at Australia’s St Vincent’s hospital race against the clock to perform two highly technical brain operations in the hope of saving the life of a young mother battling uncontrollable seizures everyday of her life.
35-year-old Harry has been in hospital for five months and now has to choose between a titanium replacement of his entire femur or a full leg amputation, while breast cancer survivor Barbara opts for revolutionary surgery to cure her lymphedema.
Overcoming all the odds and using the latest in medical science, the doctors of Australia’s St Vincent’s Hospital perform a risky spinal operation in Sydney while those in Melbourne help a patient with Parkinson's Disease have a normal life.
In Sydney 37-year-old patient Melissa hopes that a robotic surgical system will safely remove her multiple uterine fibroids and ultimately allow her the possibility of having a child.
The doctors of Australia’s St Vincent’s hospital use the latest in 3D printing in the hopes of saving not only the life of a patient, but her mobility after a malignant tumour is discovered in her shoulder.
Using cutting edge technology Associate Professors at St Vincent’s hospital create a virtual 3D immersive world which allows them to “walk through the brain” of a stroke victim to uncover what caused the condition.
Suffering from prostate cancer that has spread to 90 per cent of his bones, Joseph becomes the first man to trial the revolutionary new procedure at St Vincent’s hospital, that will directly target the cancer cells.
After waiting 4 years for a heart transplant to replace an artificial heart pump, Dwight receives the revolutionary new technology known as the ‘heart in a box’ to save his life.
Suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, 55 year old Peter has agreed to be part of an advanced new trial at St Vincent’s hospital. Hoping to prolong Peter’s life surgeons want to grow a new immune system that will stop him from relapsing.
Keen cyclist Jason has a prostate eight times normal size. At 89, advanced robotic surgery is the only safe option. Meanwhile, Michelle's jaw joints are so painful she can barely eat, and are replaced with cutting edge 3D printed titanium parts.
A hole in Nicole's heart has led to life-threatening Eisenmenger's syndrome and her only hope of survival is a very rare heart lung transplant. Dr Jacob Fairhall uses a new technique to make Lew's brain tumour fluoresce under a special microscope.
If the cancer in Sarah's sacrum isn't removed, she'll die. But surgery is so complex, Dr Di Bella needs months of planning, a team of specialists and and a hi-tech navigation system. The tremors in Kay's hands are so severe she can barely write or feed herself.
Merrily and her unborn baby could die if doctors can't navigate around a massive fibroid in her womb without causing catastrophic bleeding. Meanwhile, university student Sam's rare tumours are causing life-threatening pressure on his brain.