Cardiac Arrest

- Season 1

(1994)

Thrown in at the deep end and expected to fend for himself, Dr. Collin is assigned to Crippen Ward. Dr. Maitland has become hardened and can only forewarn him of the perils. An attempt to help an emphysema patient end in death.

Mr. Betancourt is on the rampage and the doctors are run off their feet. Raj discovers that Madeley Ward has been closed due to MRSA and has a cunning plan. Clare gets revenge on Dr. Mortimer when his hi-jinks is really a sexually assault.

August is the killing season, when new doctors hit the wards and hospital mortality rates hit sky high. While some doctors and nurses can let their hair down at an hospital ball, surgeon Dr. Broome's career is starting to tail spin.

Mr. Ernest Docherty steps in to help Dr. Broome get some study time. Andrew gets involved with Nurse Richards. Raj suspects locum Dr Patel is a fraud but Hospital Manager Mr. Leg wants to cover up that the real Patel is a woman.

Judith Edwards catches Raj's eye, so he takes an extra interest in the treatment of her father Ronald but gets caught out in a nurse's wind up. Manager Alex Legg increases Andrew's hours but finds he needs him when brought to casualty.

Failing her exams, Dr. Monica Broome is on the brink and goes to her room to take her own life. With his holiday, blocked by Dr. Turner, Andrew ends a patient's suffering with an overdose. Claire realises it murder and covers it up.