Rescue: Extreme Medics - Episode Guide

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.

An air ambulance is dispatched to the island of Mull, where 23-year-old rally driver Scott has rolled his car down a 20-foot embankment. In Glasgow city centre, the trauma team fight to save the life of a man who was hit by a bus and dragged under the wheels, while the coast guard helicopter flies to a remote sea loch to rescue a woman who has fallen 15 feet down a waterfall.

The air ambulance is dispatched to two serious road traffic collisions, while on the west bank of Loch Lomond, a minibus carrying 15 tourists has collided with a car. In South Ayrshire, an 86-year-old grandmother is struggling to breathe after a high-speed crash, and 72-year-old William has a severe cut to his arm after an attempt to chop wood with a circular saw went horrifically wrong.

The trauma team rush to 67-year-old Walter, who has sustained a life-threatening head injury after falling down a remote hillside while walking with his sister. In Aberdeen, 62-year-old Liz has been rushed to hospital with a serious chainsaw cut to her arm, while 52-year-old Philip has crashed his motorbike at high speed and is lying in the central reservation of the motorway.

The Aberdeen trauma team are dispatched by air to 52-year-old Mark, who is trapped after crashing and rolling his van into farmland. In Inverclyde, nine-year-old David has been thrown 50 yards off his quad bike and impaled onto a metal fence, while 59-year-old Jacqui is rushed to the Queen Elizabeth Major Trauma Centre with multiple injuries after her car fell 10 feet down an embankment.