Documentary following emergency response teams in the West Midlands on their most extreme medical callouts, often involving roadside surgery to save people's lives.

A West Midlands critical care team is called to a road traffic accident in which a 13-year-old boy has been knocked over on the way to school, and now has blood coming out of one ear.

Critical care paramedic Rob and doctor Adam fight to save the life of a boy who has been stabbed in the street. The 16-year-old has been knifed in the neck, has lost a significant amount of blood and is struggling to breathe. Elsewhere, Tom Waters is dispatched to 30-year-old bricklayer Daniel, who has sliced his arm with a power saw. He was cutting timber on a workbench using an angle grinder with a circular blade when he lost control and it sliced through his right hand.