Also known as: Head trauma
Dr. Manning suffers a traumatic brain injury after being thrown from a vehicle in a car accident. She is intubated, remains unresponsive initially, and experiences significant memory loss including forgetting her recent engagement.
Also known as: Liver injury
Grade two liver laceration with small amount of blood in abdomen from the car accident, managed non-operatively as there was no active bleeding on CT scan.
Also known as: Broken rib
Dr. Halstead sustains displaced rib fractures in the car accident which subsequently lead to a pneumothorax requiring chest tube placement.
Also known as: Collapsed lung
Dr. Halstead develops a pneumothorax as a complication of his rib fractures, treated with aspiration and a Heimlich valve chest tube to avoid admission.
Also known as: Underactive thyroid
Young boy presenting with headaches, fatigue, and progressive vision loss initially thought to be from a brain tumor, but ultimately diagnosed as severe hypothyroidism causing pituitary hyperplasia that mimicked a craniopharyngioma on imaging.
Also known as: Psychotic break
18-year-old male found wandering naked and delusional with suspected first-episode schizophrenia, requiring psychiatric hospitalization and treatment with Haldol and Ativan.
Also known as: Breast cancer
Maggie receives biopsy results confirming metastatic adenocarcinoma (breast cancer that has spread), requiring PET scan staging and deciding between lumpectomy with chemo/radiation or mastectomy. She chooses to keep her diagnosis private and seek treatment at another hospital.
Also known as: Lacerated neck artery
Dr. Bekker intentionally slashes her own carotid artery in a suicide attempt after being confronted about murdering Connor's father. Despite emergency thoracotomy and resuscitation attempts, she dies from blood loss.