Episode 13

999: What's Your Emergency? meets the police and paramedics in Cheshire, following incidents from the moment when a 999 call is made to the arrival of the hard-working men and women who protect us from ourselves and each other, while seeing us as we really are. They talk with honesty and wit about the ever-increasing challenges of modern Britain. This episode explores the challenges that inevitably come with the end of life, and how the emergency services have to learn to cope when dealing with death on a daily basis. In Warrington paramedics arrive at the home of a man having a suspected cardiac arrest. With CPR already in action and a defibrillator at close hand he is given the best possible chance of survival.