Ambulance: Code Red

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

Episodes

Season 1

10 episodes

S1 E1 · Episode 1

2020-08-31

Following specialist emergency response teams on their most extreme medical call outs.

S1 E2 · Episode 2

2020-09-07

No summary.

S1 E3 · Episode 3

2020-09-14

No summary.

S1 E4 · Episode 4

2020-09-21

No summary.

S1 E5 · Episode 5

2021-01-14

When a supermarket worker collapses the team have precious little time in which to save her life.

S1 E6 · Episode 6

2021-01-21

A car driver is seriously injured and the paramedics perform life-saving treatment and put him into an induced coma at the roadside.

S1 E7 · Episode 7

2021-01-28

A desperate 999 call comes in from a woman passenger who is seriously injured after being thrown out of a car when it careered off the road and smashed into trees.

S1 E8 · Episode 8

2021-02-04

Critical Care Paramedic Fay is despatched to the scene of a serious motorbike crash and Ambulance control receive an emergency call reporting a man collapsed in a churchyard.

S1 E9 · Episode 9

2021-02-11

A driver is trapped in his car after it careered out of control, smashing into a wall before flipping sideways onto a driveway. An 81-year-old man has fallen off a roof. A cyclist is seriously injured after a collision with a car.

S1 E10 · Episode 10

2021-02-18

Paramedic Jack attends the scene of a double stabbing in Birmingham. In Shrewsbury, a driver has collapsed after crashing his car into a lamp post and a tree.

Season 2

19 episodes

S2 E1 · Episode 1

2021-10-27

Paramedics rush a man to hospital after a grisly circular saw incident; an air ambulance helps a man crushed under a great weight.

S2 E2 · Episode 2

2021-11-03

Paramedics struggle to save a teenaged stabbing victim; a power saw severely cuts a man's arm; a retiree has severe head wounds after flipping his bicycle.

S2 E3 · Episode 3

2021-11-10

Paramedics struggle to save a teenaged stabbing victim; a power saw severely cuts a man's arm; a retiree has severe head wounds after flipping his bicycle.

S2 E4 · Episode 4

2021-11-17

In a rush-hour collision, a 21-year-old motorcyclist is thrown headfirst from his bike. His helmet comes off in the impact, and critical care paramedic Pete and the Midlands Air Ambulance trauma team are despatched to give life-saving treatment.

S2 E6 · Episode 6

2021-12-08

A van collides with an articulated lorry on the M6 in Wolverhampton, a man is found unconscious and lying in a hedgerow, and there are multiple reports of someone armed with a knife rampaging through the streets of Birmingham.

S2 E7 · Episode 7

2021-12-15

A woman thrown from her car needs help for her and her friends still trapped in the wreck. A pair of paramedics treat a heart attack but may be too late.

S2 E8 · Episode 8

2022-02-02

Critical care paramedic Fay Pollock is dispatched to a serious motorbike crash where a rider was thrown 15 feet by a collision with a car, breaking the largest bone in his body

S2 E9 · Episode 9

2022-02-09

A driver is trapped in his car after it careered out of control, smashing into a wall before flipping sideways. Dr Polly Haywood and critical care practitioner Sarah Folley are dispatched to the scene.

S2 E10 · Episode 10

2022-02-16

There are reports of a double stabbing and after a car crash a man is trapped under a bus. In Birmingham city centre a man has been punched in a fight and is fighting for his life.

S2 E11 · Episode 11

2022-04-26

No summary.

S2 E12 · Episode 12

2022-05-03

The ambulance crews must respond to a builder, who has fallen from a great height while working in a derelict farm building, and a car wash employee who has been stabbed dangerously close to their liver.

S2 E13 · Episode 13

2022-05-10

In Birmingham, a man is stabbed several times at a residential address after getting into an argument with somebody. Also, 64-year-old Indra had been sitting on the sofa when she began experiencing what appeared to be a fit.

S2 E14 · Episode 14

2022-05-17

Critical care paramedics Ryan Ferris and Grant Salsby are called to the scene of a workplace accident. meanwhile, in Dudley, 18-year-old Beth has been run over by a car, and a man is stabbed in Birmingham.

S2 E15 · Episode 15

2022-05-25

An HGV crashes into a railway bridge on the M6 motorway, and 67-year-old retired security guard Denis has been stabbed multiple times in the head, chest and arm by someone he knows.

S2 E16 · Episode 16

2022-06-01

A 62-year-old finance broker fights for his life after he suffers a cardiac arrest while out jogging. A 32-year-old labourer is stabbed in the neck and abdomen outside his home.

S2 E17 · Episode 17

2022-06-08

A pair of men who work at a hazardous waste disposal business are injured after an explosion rocks the premises, and a street fight ends with two wounded.

S2 E18 · Episode 18

2022-06-14

A doctor has to apply more than ten surgical staples to finally close an open wound on a pensioner's scalp; an elderly man falls down the stairs.

S2 E19 · Episode 19

2022-06-21

A man's hand is caught in an industrial machine, crushing it, and threatening his life when it proves impossi-ble to get the device to release.

S2 E20 · Episode 20

No summary.

Season 3

7 episodes

S3 E1 · Episode 1

2023-10-05

It's a race against time to save joiner John after he suddenly collapses from a cardiac arrest while working in a client's house. And a man's day turns into a disaster when an industrial-sized printer lands on his head, leaving him unable to move.

S3 E2 · Episode 2

2023-10-12

Medics rush to a 60-year-old woman with suspected multiple injuries, trapped in her car, and to a 36-year-old knife attack victim, who has extensive injuries to his neck and face. And a man gets his foot wedged between his car and a ticket machine.

S3 E3 · Episode 3

2023-10-19

There's major trauma when a hay bale lands on a farmer's head in a remote location. Plus, a battle to save a man in cardiac arrest, and a 76-year-old woman has fallen down the stairs.

S3 E4 · Episode 4

2023-10-26

A motorist is stuck in his car and unable to move his legs, a man in a hard-to-reach rural location has cut his leg with an angle grinder, and an 80-year-old woman has fallen down the stairs at home and is struggling to breathe.

S3 E5 · Episode 5

2023-11-02

Patients in need of emergency assistance include a man in cardiac arrest at a karate club, a 83-year-old woman with a suspected broken thigh, and a truck driver trapped in his cabin.

S3 E6 · Episode 6

2023-11-09

A man has been crushed by a forklift truck and sustained a serious leg injury, and a 22-year-old woman is trapped in her car with a badly injured ankle after a high-speed collision.

S3 E7 · Episode 7

High-octane medical emergencies including a man found collapsed in a hotel room, a head-on collision between two motorcyclists, and an 11-year-old who's taken a tumble from his scooter.