Emergency

A crash victim needs major surgery to rebuild his leg. And a patient heads home at last.

A 38-year-old paratrooper arrives at the Royal London after a paragliding accident. He has lost sensation in his legs and needs specialist high-risk surgery to fix his compacted spine and pelvis if hes to have a chance of walking again. Other patients include a pedestrian whose leg has been crushed by a bus in south London and a teenager who put his leg through a glass security door.

Surgeons Brett and Pete use bone hooks and levers to try pull paratrooper Lees pelvis out of his spinal canal after a high-speed paragliding accident in France. In south-west London, 86 year-old Veronica comes into St Georges Hospital with an open ankle fracture after a car accident but doctors worry theres a vascular injury and she could lose her foot. At St Marys, Heidi has surgery after a vicious dog attack and 56 year-old plasterer Lee is brought in by air ambulance after a car crash where emergency doctors took over an hour to extract him from the vehicle.