Also known as: Artery injury behind the knee
A high school soccer player dislocates his knee in a bus accident, injuring the popliteal artery. The injury is initially missed on exam, leading to tissue death and requiring below-the-knee amputation despite attempted surgical repair.
Also known as: Head trauma
A teenage soccer player sustains severe head trauma in the bus accident with brain matter visible from his ear canal. Despite resuscitation attempts, he is pronounced dead after 30 minutes of efforts.
Also known as: Chest injury
A patient from the bus accident presents with blunt chest and abdominal trauma, losing his pulse multiple times during resuscitation attempts.
Also known as: Kidney injury from bus accident
Part of the multi-system trauma sustained by a patient in the bus versus truck collision.
Also known as: Head trauma
The truck driver suffers severe head trauma with massive facial trauma and brain swelling that leads to cardiogenic shock and death. He was under the influence of amphetamines at the time of the accident.
Also known as: Heart failure from brain injury
The truck driver's severe brain trauma puts excessive strain on his heart, leading to poor ventricular wall motion and cardiogenic shock, ultimately resulting in cardiac arrest and death.
Also known as: Amphetamine use
The truck driver's toxicology report reveals amphetamines in his system at the time of the accident. His wife insists he was a good man who would never use drugs, but the test is positive.
Also known as: Prostate infection
A transgender woman presents with lower abdominal pain lasting a month. She is diagnosed with prostatitis (retained from pre-transition anatomy) that progresses to septic shock requiring urgent treatment.
Also known as: Life-threatening infection
The patient's untreated prostatitis progresses to severe sepsis with hypotension, requiring central line access and pressors to stabilize blood pressure.
Also known as: Schizoaffective disorder
A patient presents in an acute psychotic state, agitated and calling for 'Sally' (his stuffed animal). His brother reveals he has schizophrenia and has been missing for over a year after going off his medications.
Also known as: Liver scarring
Mario's estranged alcoholic father presents to the ER and suffers a life-threatening bleeding episode from esophageal varices secondary to chronic liver disease. Mario treats him despite their difficult relationship.
Also known as: Dislocated knee
The patient's knee dislocation from the bus accident is successfully reduced, but the associated vascular injury is initially missed, leading to the need for amputation.