Inside Paediatric Intensive Care Unit | Hospital S3 E4 | Our Stories

On most days in winter, the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Queen's Medical Centre is full. Intensive care is often the last resort for very sick children, a place that can keep them alive while doctors work on making them better. It's also where children undergoing the most serious surgery come to recuperate. It's the job of Lead Consultant Paediatrician Patrick Davies to balance the ever increasing demands that are made on the over-flowing unit every day We're stretched to breaking point. One patient in, one patient out. There is a queue of patients around the region waiting for our beds Lack of children's intensive care beds is a nationwide problem. Four-year old Esme is rushed to Queens Medical Centre from Hull 90 miles away when her closest intensive care units in Leeds and Sheffield are both completely full. She is suffering from septic shock, an extreme form of sepsis, a life threatening condition that occurs when the body reacts to an infection by damaging its own organs Subscribe to Our Stories: https://bit.ly/3lzSXhv This film was first broadcast: 18 Apr 2018 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurStoriesChannel Watch More Documentaries True Lives - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Taste - https://bit.ly/3OZoDcV Welcome to Our Stories, your home on YouTube for our exciting range of fly-on-the-wall style documentaries and special access reality programmes which will give you an inside look into the everyday lives of people; exploring what life is like for those working in education, healthcare, policing and many others! Content distributed by ITV Studios. #documentary #ourstories #healthcare #nhs