'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. The series explains the six stages in life: Birth, Childhood, Teenagers, Prime of Life, The Middle Years and The Final Years. Episodes Birth This episode explains that birth is the riskiest time in life and the process of a woman delivering a baby and how both the woman and the child are put at risk in this complex journey. 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. The programme also follows a woman who needs a caesarean because her baby's in a breech position but the operation goes horribly wrong as the umbilical cord gets trapped around the baby's neck. Childhood As the body develops it is always at risk of deadly diseases, but children's bodies have certain features that bring them back from the brink of death. This episode follows a boy with malformed heart which could collapse at any time. The only way to save him is a heart transplant, a battle against time as the body can only survive so long on an artificial heart. 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. Teenagers As teenagers take massive risks at this time, it can be a very dangerous time in life, in the middle of childhood and adulthood. One patient is a victim of two potentially fatal stab wounds - one of which penetrated the lining of a lung. Surgeons perform an immediate lung drain to relieve pressure on the lung and to stop difficulty of breathing. Two girls are rushed to A&E after alcohol poisoning and using computer imagery, explores the damage done. Another patient has broken two bones in his foot severing a major artery and doctors battle to save his foot with the remaining blood vessels in his foot. Prime of Life At a time when our bodies are at its strongest, the programme follows a woman with a congenital heart condition as she strains to deliver a baby and her body stretched to the limit. Another woman has been hit by a car and left with life-threatening