Also known as: GSW
Dr. Choi is shot by a delusional patient (Neil Dietrich) in the hospital parking garage. The bullet lodges at T6 vertebra causing hemothorax, spinal cord compression, and neurogenic shock requiring emergency laminectomy and corpectomy to remove bone fragments.
Also known as: Shared delusion
Patient believes he is living in a computer simulation (references 'red pill' and 'NPCs'), becomes violent believing doctors are preventing him from waking up to reality. Shoots Dr. Choi and assaults Dr. Archer after his appendectomy.
Also known as: Heart tumor
Donor heart for Carol Manning's transplant contains a benign intracardiac tumor (myxoma) in the left ventricle that has invaded the mitral valve leaflet. Dr. Marcel removes the myxoma and repairs the valve before Dr. Latham implants the heart.
Also known as: CHF
Carol Manning receives a heart transplant using experimental warm perfusion technique to transport the donor organ from Los Angeles. The transplant is successful despite the donor heart having a myxoma that required removal.
Also known as: PTSD
Elderly Russian man who was previously incarcerated in Soviet 'special psychiatric hospital' (political prison disguised as mental institution) develops severe PTSD triggered by seeing rats and being placed on psychiatric hold, reliving his imprisonment trauma.
Also known as: Mild traumatic brain injury
After shooting Dr. Choi, Neil Dietrich sustains head trauma (GCS 13) and suspected concussion, continues to be delusional throughout treatment.
Also known as: Inflamed appendix
Patient had ruptured appendix removed in previous episode by Dr. Archer, but patient believes the surgery was removing a 'red pill' that would allow him to wake from the simulation.
Also known as: Alcohol poisoning
Dr. Lankov drinks approximately 800ml of 90-proof whiskey after being emotionally triggered by treating Pavel Zorin, falls down stairs in parking garage resulting in head injury requiring CT scan.
During surgery for gunshot wound, Dr. Choi develops neurogenic shock from ventral spinal cord compression requiring emergency spine distraction to decompress and prevent cardiac arrest.