Come along for the ride and witness high-stakes medicine, intense jeopardy, real-life heroes and stunning scenery.
Strap in and fire up the twin-jet engines for the most
adrenaline-packed medical rescue missions you’ve ever seen on TV. With full
access, life or death drama, high-speed action and amazing characters,
Helicopter ER takes viewers into the cockpits of choppers that are often the
last hope for people critically ill or seriously injured in some of the UK’s most
extreme landscapes. The flying doctors and paramedics of the Yorkshire Air
Ambulance race to the rescue at 150 miles an hour – thanks to pilots who used
to fly Special Forces, such as the SAS, to their missions. These
all-action heroes are highly trained rescue professionals…and every moment of
their lives is captured, using airborne fixed-rig and body cameras that take
you to the front line of trauma medicine. In the rugged Dales of North
Yorkshire we’re alongside medics who are forced to turn a farmyard into an
operating theatre to save a teenage worker who’s fractured his skull after
falling through a roof. While on a major motorway we join paramedics inside a
wrecked car that’s plunged 30ft off a flyover. It could burst into flames any
second – but the driver’s trapped. And when a herd of cattle go rogue and try
to kill a farmer, we follow the team trying to save his life. From air crashes
to freak accidents, this is real life drama set in one of Europe’s most
beautiful – but deadly – landscapes, shot by a team trained to go wherever
their subjects take them.
