Ambulance Australia

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

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.

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.

Behind the scenes of NSW Ambulance - no day is ordinary. Crews are called to a motorcycle accident in peak hour traffic. Call taker Laura celebrates her last shift in the control centre before leaving to become a paramedic. A devastating car crash on the far outskirts of Sydney throws crews into overdrive as they face the tyranny of distance to save a life.

Ambulance Australia follows former call taker Laura on her very first shift on the road as a paramedic. Her first callout sees her attend a man suffering chest pains at Sydney's busy airport. And on a construction site, Duty Operations Manager Brian needs to rescue a worker who's fallen from a height. But getting him out of the building site into the ambulance proves to be extremely tricky