Rescue: Extreme Medics - Season 1

In episode one, a trauma team based in Glasgow are tasked by helicopter to a remote part of Skye, as a distressing call comes in from a man trapped under a 650kg all-terrain vehicle. In Aberdeen Royal Infirmary the hospital trauma team are assembled to treat a 51-year-old cyclist who has had a head on collision with a digger bucket in a small farming area of rural Aberdeenshire. 

A trauma team based in Aberdeen attend an emergency outside of Elgin in Moray, where an amateur pilot has crashed his vintage plane on take-off, sustaining multiple injuries. A man is crushed underneath a dumper truck at a farm in rural Dumfriesshire, while in Glasgow, a distressing call comes in about a 12-year-old girl knocked down and dragged under a car.

How the Scottish Trauma Network brings life-saving treatment to remote areas that do not always have easy access to hospitals.

How the Scottish Trauma Network brings life-saving treatment to remote areas that do not always have easy access to hospitals.

A German tourist breaks her ankle while walking on a remote hillside, leaving her stranded. A quad bike rider comes off travelling at 50mph on a racetrack in Strathaven. Arriving on scene, medics must treat the patient's fractured arm immediately, before transporting him back to Glasgow for further treatment. On a small country road in rural Aberdeenshire, an 80-year-old lady is trapped in her car.