Ambulance Australia

A woman falls off a 15-meter cliff. A rookie paramedic faces a confronting case. A catastrophic crash threatens the life of a beloved husband. A young son is trapped seizing in a bathroom. A stranger must be convinced to perform CPR to save a life. And a young girl threatens to end her life devastating a family.

Episode One begins in the Sydney Control Centre, where a triple zero call is answered every 27 seconds. Paramedics Josh and Sophie are rushing under lights and sirens to warehouse in Sydney's west. A forklift has rolled over. In Liverpool, we meet paramedics Samantha and Tammie, Their first job is a car accident in which a pregnant woman's waters have broken on impact

It's the notorious Saturday night shift and a surge in calls relating to drugs and alcohol floods the control centre. Out on the streets, paramedics struggle to free patients from the wreckage of a horrific motor vehicle accident, deal with an intoxicated man who is bleeding from the face, and worry about the possibility of a traumatic brain injury after a motorcycle accident.

Paramedics attend difficult jobs and save lives daily, but how much can they take before it truly affects them? How do they cope with grim or emotional jobs? In this episode: a call taker tries to revive a hanging patient over the phone when the family's given up. A heart attack turns into a race against the clock and a gruesome double stabbing pushes the NSW Ambulance services to their limits.

It's not an ordinary Sunday for NSW Ambulance, as eighty thousand people hit the streets in Sydney's annual City2Surf. Paramedics drive through the crowds to locate a semi-conscious participant suffering from hyperthermia, and a seventy year old who collapses after completing the fourteen-kilometre run.

This episode showcases the full range of skills NSW Ambulance deploys to serve the community. We see the highest possible medical intervention, as a team of paramedics and the Ambulance helicopter medical crew rush to save a cyclist with serious head injuries. Paramedics are scrambled to deal with a spate of party drug overdoses on Sydney's Oxford Street late on Friday night.