Also known as: Blocked intestine
A teenage drug mule presents with abdominal pain and distention caused by 59 packets of cocaine lodged in his intestines. During surgery to remove the packets, one tears, flooding his system with cocaine and causing cardiac instability.
Also known as: Wound infection
Patient presents with leg pain and fever from infected surgical sites following elective leg-lengthening surgery. The infection surrounds titanium rods used to lengthen his legs, requiring complex surgical intervention to replace the rods while preserving the new bone growth.
Also known as: Stomach cancer
A young expectant father presents with what appears to be sympathy morning sickness but is discovered to have gastric cancer with ascites. The diagnosis is particularly devastating as he and his partner are expecting their first child.
Also known as: H. pylori
Initially suspected as the cause of severe morning sickness-like symptoms in a pregnant woman and her partner. While treatable with antibiotics in the woman, it had progressed to gastric cancer in her partner.
Also known as: Drug mule overdose
During surgery to remove drug packets, one bag tears and floods the patient's system with cocaine, causing cardiac arrhythmias, fever, and life-threatening instability requiring emergent medical management.
Also known as: GSW
In the episode's cliffhanger ending, Owen (Will Halstead's son) is shot during an armed robbery in the hospital. The full extent of his injuries is not revealed in this episode.
Also known as: Unplanned pregnancy
Hannah Asher's pregnancy with Dean Archer's baby is a major subplot throughout the episode, affecting workplace dynamics and relationships, though not a medical case itself.