''Children's Emergency'' is a British television documentary series. It follows the

Children's Acute Transport Service The Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS) is a publicly funded specialised regional intensive care transport service for critically ill children. CATS is the busiest Paediatric Intensive Care Transport Service in the UK and covers the 50 Distr ...

(abbreviated as CATS),
"Children's Acute Transport Service" at National Health Service UK. the intensive care retrieval service connected to the nationally acclaimed

Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS F ...

in London,
"Britain's best hospitals" at The Independent. which is dedicated to stabilising and transporting critically ill children from peripheral hospitals to specialist paediatric intensive care units.
"Children's Emergency – On the Road with the Children's Acute Transport Service" at Twins Club. Eight episodes
"Episodes Guide Children's Emergency" at BBC ONE. were produced by

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for the

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

, and it was first aired on

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between 4 May and 23 June 2010. In the first episode CATS make a 100-mile blue light dash so a newborn baby boy can have emergency heart surgery; a little girl with suspected meningitis is rushed from her local hospital in Southend to St Mary's in Paddington for intensive care; and an eleven-year-old boy in Romford is having mystery fits and needs specialist care to keep him alive while they try to discover what is causing his illness.
"Children's Emergency – The first episode. In the subsequent seven episodes the CATS team is being called to various locations in Great Britain, using specially fitted ambulances with full intensive care equipment, RAF helicopters and Hercules aircraft to reach even the remotest cases and transfer them to London to get the urgently needed specialist care and therapies they need. The documentary depicts the life-saving work of the medics with real live footage, as they deal with a wide range of critical conditions in their little patients, such as brain infections, lung and heart failure, car accidents, blocked intestines and diabetes with coma. The specialist medical staff of the

who is starring in the television series include amongst others Dr Christian Pathak,
"Dr Pathak in the BBC Documentary Children's Emergency" at BBC ONE. a prominent, internationally operating Pediatrics, Paediatric Emergency Physician, who amongst other organizations has also worked extensively with the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
"Rote Erde, unendlich blauer Himmel und Abenteurer in Schweizer Flugzeugen" at FOKUS Magazin.

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* {{BBC programme BBC television documentaries 2010s British medical television series 2010 British television series debuts 2010s British documentary television series 2010 British television series endings British English-language television shows Channel One (British and Irish TV channel) original programming Documentary television series about emergency services Paediatrics in the United Kingdom