King’s Cross ER: Feb 4

Medical observational series Kings Cross ER returns to Nine tomorrow, filmed in one of the busiest emergency departments in Australia.

From ruthless stabbings and drug-fuelled violence to falls from five-storey buildings, the crisis team of doctors, nurses and paramedics at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney prove they can handle anything that comes through their door as they undertake intricate procedures and make life-or-death decisions.

In the new series, a homeless man with a history of intravenous drug use is admitted in a critical condition and finding a healthy vein is proving to be a serious problem. With all his veins collapsed from long-term drug use, how will the ER team administer the vital fluids and medicine he needs?

John finally decides to go to Emergency after falling from his roof two days earlier. The pain and breathlessness he is experiencing put Dr Melinda Berry and her team in a race against time to examine his chest cavity for the problem.

A pair of Scottish backpackers get more than they bargained for when they start hallucinating, but no one can work out what they have taken. When they start talking to the walls of the ER observation bays, doctors must find out what they have ingested so they can reverse the effects.

Drugs and alcohol are a common denominator in Kings Cross, Sydney’s notorious party district, but not the only reason hundreds of patients are admitted to the overworked St Vincent’s Hospital every day, as we will see when Kings Cross ER returns on Thursdays at 8.30pm on Channel Nine.

8:30pm Thursday on Nine.