Fight for Life (TV series)

'Fight for Life' is a British television series which explores the human body and its fight for survival in life-threatening situations using new technology, with computer-generated imagery and specially shot footage.

It features a two-hour-old baby already facing death who has Meconium Aspiration Syndrome as a result of inhaling excrement at or before birth.

A different patient suffers a major asthma attack and his body has to depend on its own immune system for the fight for survival to unblock his airways.

Christine has dangerous carbon dioxide levels in her blood, related to years of smoking, which is poisoning her brain.

Geoffrey is rushed to A&E with a rice-grain sized blood clot in one of the veins feeding his heart as he suffers a series of cardiac arrests.

He requires urgent surgery whilst he is already suffering with epilepsy, arteritis, a slow heartbeat and vascular disease.

His blood pressure drops and his breathing becomes shallower and finally his lungs, followed by his heart and Brain shut down for good, ending his fight for life.