Horizon · SEASON 50
How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery
Episode 8 · 2013-03-21
- Documentary
Episode overview
A&E doctor Kevin Fong finds out how doctors can avoid making mistakes in the high-pressure, high-stakes world of the operating theatre. He sets out to learn how other professionals make life and death decisions under pressure, from airline pilots facing emergencies, to the Fire Service dealing with lethal blazes, to the world of Formula One pit crews. Kevin discovers how all these fields are helping to make surgery safer.
60 minutes
Season 50 episodes
1. The Truth About Looking Young2012-07-23
2. Mission to Mars2012-07-30
3. Eat, Fast and Live Longer2012-08-06
4. How Big Is the Universe?2012-08-27
5. How Small Is the Universe?2012-09-03
6. Defeating the Superbugs2012-09-10
7. The Creative Brain: How Insight Works2013-03-14
8. How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery2013-03-21
9. The Truth about Taste2013-03-28
10. The Age of Big Data2013-04-04
11. The Secret Life of the Cat2013-06-13
12. Little Cat Diaries2013-06-14
13. Fracking: The New Energy Rush2013-06-19
14. Swallowed by a Black Hole2013-06-26
15. What Makes us Human?2013-07-03
16. The Truth About Personality2013-07-10
