Cardiac Arrest

- Season 2

(1995)

Australian doctor Mr. Cyril 'Scissors' Smedley first day has Mr. Docherty's new Registrar. The new Hospital Manager Paul Tennant decides to inspect the hospital by using a wheelchair and is prepared to play politics with Dr.Turner.

Hospital Manager Paul Tennant starts to make budget cuts to front line services. Unable to cover ENT, Dr. Turner offers up Andrew over Claire, fearing she would quit first. Claire and James battle to stop a patient dying of hypothermia.

Heather Parsons comes into casualty, with a serious case of meningitis, after her GP Dr. Wilson sent her home. When she dies Andrew is blamed, by her parents. He wants Wilson to be accountable but it could cost him his career.

Dr. Phil Kirkby is accused of sexually assaulting a patient. She attempts to blackmail him in to giving her drugs in return for silence. Nurse Richards gets suspended when patient Mrs Mansfield dies after her oxygen is wrongly turned off.

A patient of Dr. Turner, 28-year-old James Parker dies suddenly overnight. Hospital Manager Paul Tennatt is looking for someone blame. SN Pam Charnley has never disclosed a mental illness and was also on duty when Mrs. Manfield died.

Mr. DeVries takes action to save a seriously injured child. Claire faces suspension when she angers management by attempting to highlight untrained doctors covering ENT. Paul Tennant hires PR team to raise the hospital's profile.

James discovers that he has AIDS. When the story leaks to the press Paul Tennant expects him to take leave but other colleagues want him out. Adrian DeVries tells Debbie he wants access to Steven, who believes to be his son.

James Mortimer's career is in the balance when the hospital attempt terminate his contract due to HIV. Phil Kirkby refuses to plead guilty to negligence, at inquest in the McIntyre case, but is still found guilty of unlawful killing.