Also known as: Brain death
Officer Windham was struck by her own vehicle in her driveway, resulting in massive intracranial bleeding, brainstem herniation, and brain death. She becomes an organ donor, with her heart going to transplant recipient Meghan Scott.
Also known as: Heart failure
Meghan is a heart transplant candidate with an LVAD who gets into a car accident on the way to receive a donor heart. She ultimately receives Officer Windham's heart after falling off the wagon (relapsing with alcohol), creating ethical complications about transplant eligibility.
Also known as: Alcoholism
Meghan is a recovering alcoholic who had been sober for three years but relapsed before coming to the hospital for her heart transplant. Her relapse creates a major ethical dilemma for the transplant committee regarding whether she should receive the donor heart.
Also known as: Spinal AVM
Bria presents with neck pain after a car accident, and CT reveals a congenital spinal AVM in her upper thoracic spine that has been causing her recent back pain. She undergoes neurosurgery to cauterize the AVM.
Also known as: Bulimia
Felix is a jockey who engages in purging behaviors and diuretic abuse to maintain racing weight. His eating disorder has caused mitral valve prolapse and dangerous electrolyte imbalances, but he refuses treatment to continue racing.
Also known as: Floppy heart valve
Felix's mitral valve has become floppy due to his chronic purging and being severely underweight, putting him at risk for dangerous cardiac complications.
Also known as: Head laceration
Meghan sustained a large head laceration in the car accident that required stapling, but fortunately CT showed no significant intracranial injury.
Also known as: Neck injury
Bria complained of neck pain after the airbag deployed in the car crash. CT ruled out fractures, but the imaging incidentally revealed her spinal AVM.
Also known as: Fluid around the heart
During the M&M conference, Dr. Manning presents a case where she missed a pericardial effusion on imaging that led to cardiac tamponade and cardiovascular collapse, which was treated with emergent pericardiocentesis.
The M&M case involved a patient with pancreatitis due to choledocholithiasis (bile duct stones), which complicated the management of their lung cancer.
Also known as: Lung cancer
The M&M case patient had a resectable lung mass with lymph node involvement that was discovered after the pericardial effusion workup.
Also known as: TB
April is being treated for tuberculosis during her pregnancy. This episode confirms via ultrasound that the TB medications are not causing harm to her developing fetus.