After the London bombings in 2005, a world-leading emergency trauma service
was set up in the capital. A new TV series follows the team of first responders, critical care
doctors and surgeons who come to the rescue. Last year they answered a 999 call for
28 -year-old Danilo Martorana, who’d had a devastating motorcycle accident.
First, stop the patient bleeding to death at the scene
Heart surgeon
Colin Bicknell
‘I had to operate on
his aorta with no
idea how long he’d
be stable’Trauma
orthopaedic surgeon
Chris Jordan
‘The whole right
side of his pelvis
was effectively
hanging off ’Occupational therapist
Niamh Spratt-Murphy
‘Would he walk
again? I’d seen his
scans and they
were scary’REPORT Hilary Rose PORTRAITS Tom Jackson