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Episode: Code Red
Description: Eddie was set to become another statistic, another teenager killed by rising levels of knife crime.But Eddie’s life was saved by the new field of trauma science. It is revolutionising the way people are treated after shootings, traffic accidents or any injury that causes catastrophic bleeding.The doctors that pioneered the work call it Code Red. Your chances of surviving major bleeding are now higher than ever before.So what changed? Quite simply trauma medicine has been turned on its head. Before 2007, doctors would have treated Eddie’s catastrophic bleeding by tryi...