Mon, May 3, 2010
This eight-part series follows the life-saving work of the medics of the largest mobile children's critical care service in the UK. The Children's Acute Transport Service, CATS, has highly specialised emergency teams who make sure that any seriously ill child who needs intensive care gets it, where ever they are. CATS make a 100-mile blue light dash so a newborn baby boy can have emergency heart surgery; a little girl with suspected meningitis is rushed from her local hospital in Southend to St Mary's in Paddington for intensive care; and an eleven year old boy in Romford is having mystery fits and needs specialist care to keep him alive while they try to discover what is causing his illness.
Mon, May 10, 2010
Second programme in the series following the life-saving work of the medics of a mobile intensive care service for children. The highly specialised emergency teams from The Children's Acute Transport Service, CATS, make sure critically ill children who need intensive care get it, wherever they are. A toddler's brain infection is spreading into his blood stream. Already critically ill, he needs to be moved from his North London hospital to Great Ormond street for specialist treatment; the RAF fly the team 230 miles to save a baby whose heart isn't working properly; meanwhile, a little boy's failing lungs have sent his blood pressure plummeting, and he too needs urgent intensive care.
Sun, May 16, 2010
Third programme in the series following the life-saving work of the medics of a mobile intensive care service for children. The highly specialised emergency teams from The Children's Acute Transport Service, CATS, make sure critically ill children who need intensive care get it, wherever they are. The team race to save a 10-year-old girl who needs to be moved to Great Ormond Street Hospital for a heart transplant, but she's already on a heart lung machine, making it that much more difficult; all of the team's skills are needed when a baby's heart stops beating; and a little girl has been knocked unconscious by a car and may have brain damage.
Sun, May 23, 2010
The new series following the life-saving work of the medics of a mobile intensive care service for children continues. The highly specialised emergency teams from the Children's Acute Transport Service, CATS, make sure critically ill children who need intensive care get it, wherever they are. The team is called to a baby who is so sick, her heart has already stopped once, she needs to get to a specialist intensive care unit urgently; a teenage boy who is in a diabetic coma; and a three-year-old little boy who is back in hospital for the 20th time. The team need to get him to Royal Brompton's children's specialists to investigate the cause of his continuing problems.
Sun, May 30, 2010
The new series following the life-saving work of the medics of a mobile intensive care service for children continues. The highly specialised emergency teams from the Children's Acute Transport Service, CATS, make sure critically ill children who need intensive care get it, wherever they are. A baby is flown nearly fifteen hundred miles for life-saving surgery; CATS have to work in a cramped and noisy Hercules aircraft. They are also called to a toddler who has a massive chest infection; and a little boy has a virus that is attacking his heart.
Mon, Jun 7, 2010
The new series following the life-saving work of the medics of a mobile intensive care service for children continues. The highly specialised emergency teams from the Children's Acute Transport Service, CATS, make sure critically ill children who need intensive care get it, wherever they are. CATS rushes to deliver a baby with a blocked intestine to theatre for an urgent operation; a three-year-old with a life-threatening lung infection needs the team's intensive care expertise, urgently; and they are called to a baby with complex heart defects.
Tue, Jun 15, 2010
The new series following the life-saving work of the medics of a mobile intensive care service for children continues. The highly specialised emergency teams from the Children's Acute Transport Service, CATS, make sure critically ill children who need intensive care get it, wherever they are. CATS fly to Belfast to transfer a one-day-old baby who needs a heart-lung bypass; they have a 40 mile blue light dash to a seven year old whose life is in danger after a traumatic seizure; and they get an urgent call to a newborn baby who has a severe hernia and needs life-saving surgery.
Tue, Jun 22, 2010
The new series following the life-saving work of the medics of a mobile intensive care service for children continues. The highly specialised emergency teams from the Children's Acute Transport Service, CATS, make sure critically ill children who need intensive care get it, wherever they are. The team get a call to a 14-year-old rower who has had a heart attack and needs to be moved to Great Ormond Street for urgent examination and intensive care. They revive a newborn baby who suddenly stops breathing; and have to put a 6-week-old baby on a breathing machine because an infection is attacking her lungs.