Trauma: Seconds to Live: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Trauma: Seconds to Live explores the life-and-death decisions facing doctors in the first critical hour of emergency care. Each one-hour episode features at least three cases, including: a doctor who performs open-heart surgery in the street on a woman in cardiac arrest; an 11-year-old who goes mysteriously blind after being hit by a car; a tree-trimmer who falls 20 feet onto concrete; a motorcyclist who is bleeding to death after a crash; a 77-year-old woman who presents at the hospital with a suspected stroke; and many more critical medical emergencies.

Series details

• Title: Trauma: Seconds to Live
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Medical
• Premiere date: 2015-09-02
• Final broadcast date listed: 2017-07-14
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Discovery Life
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 3831

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-09-02; final listed air date 2015-10-16; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2017-06-23; final listed air date 2017-07-14; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

Adapted from Trauma: Seconds to Live on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.