Experience just how different a life-threatening crisis can be in one of the most isolated locations on earth, Broken Hill. Meet the incredible emergency response team personnel who live and work in this remote region.
Doctors treat the victim of a horrific car accident, tend to a baby with worrying symptoms, examine scalded genitals and take some city folk to the local races.
The emergency department deals with two motorbike accidents - one hit an emu, the other a kangaroo. A mystery illness has the doctors completely baffled, and we meet a transgender local who found acceptance in Broken Hill.
Brothers require urgent treatment after they both cut their hands in a freak circular saw accident. Paramedics attend to a child with a suspected spinal injury and a young man has an embarrassing pain in his bottom.
The Emergency Department is sent into a spin when vital hospital equipment fails. Doctors treat an ex-miner who has turned blue and a young cowboy who may decide to go drinking with mates instead of treating his injured leg.
Doctors attempt to help Joseph who is struggling to breathe, but this makes him panic even more. Meanwhile, Ron's prosthetic leg gives way after a nasty fall and Fay's routine hospital procedure takes a dramatic turn.
Dr. Alex Rack is put under pressure when he needs to attend to two critically ill patients at the same time. A motorbike accident victim suffers worsening headaches, and 14-year-old Patrick has a mysterious seizure.
Doug falls off his roof & shatters his leg but his internal bleeding requires emergency surgery. Housebound Margaret is cut from her home in a bizarre rescue & a late night feast sees Geoffrey with serious burns.