Also known as: Severe brain bleeding
Lucy Simms suffers fatal brain injury from being trampled in the movie theater stampede. She is declared brain dead after 23 minutes down and becomes an organ donor, with her liver ultimately transplanted to Peter Wallace.
Also known as: Collapsed lung
Lucy develops tension pneumothorax from trampling injuries, requiring needle decompression and chest tube during resuscitation efforts.
Also known as: GSW to abdomen
Peter Wallace's gunshot wounds destroy his portal vein and hepatic artery, requiring emergency liver transplant. He receives Lucy Simms' donated liver in a directed donation arranged by her husband.
Also known as: Shock from blood loss
Peter experiences severe blood loss from multiple gunshot wounds requiring emergency thoracotomy, aortic cross-clamping, and massive transfusion.
Also known as: SMA syndrome
Ashley presents with chronic nausea and weight loss initially suspected to be anorexia. CT reveals superior mesenteric artery compressing her duodenum due to loss of fat pad from rapid growth, causing food to get stuck.
Also known as: Sarcoid
Gertrude Kovach presents with fatigue, headaches, and forgetfulness. Biopsy reveals non-caseating granulomas consistent with sarcoidosis, an inflammatory autoimmune condition.
Also known as: Dislocated shoulder
A 23-year-old male victim of the theater stampede presents with shoulder dislocation from being trampled.
Also known as: Scalp torn off
A 20-year-old female victim of the theater stampede presents with traumatic scalp avulsion from being trampled.
Also known as: Broken pelvis with open wound
Rick Miller, the man who shot Peter Wallace, intentionally steps in front of a car and dies from severe trauma including open pelvic fracture in an apparent suicide.