Also known as: Shock from blood loss
Woman trapped in car after plane crash with severe trauma and blood loss, requiring field intubation and helicopter transport. Golden hour was almost over.
Also known as: Broken thigh bone
Same car crash patient with bilateral femur fractures requiring urgent surgical intervention.
Also known as: Head laceration
Head trauma with altered level of consciousness in the car crash victim, requiring intubation in the field.
Also known as: Internal bleeding
Mr. McClintock presented with a rigid abdomen and hypotension after not wearing a seat belt, requiring emergency surgery for internal bleeding.
Also known as: Blood clot in lung
42-year-old man collapsed playing handball with a saddle embolus. Dr. Greene performed an emergency embolectomy in the ER using fluoroscopy, successfully extracting the clot from the pulmonary artery.
Also known as: Breast cancer spread to kidney
36-year-old woman with end-stage breast cancer after bilateral mastectomies, with metastases to pelvis and spine. She experienced severe intractable pain unresponsive to morphine and fentanyl, begging Dr. Greene to help her die. She ultimately died of respiratory failure.
Also known as: Gunshot to the leg
12-year-old boy with gunshot wounds to leg and abdomen from a drug deal gone bad, arrived with no palpable pulse and died shortly after arrival.
Also known as: Heart attack
52-year-old hockey referee collapsed during a game, hypotensive and tachycardic. He went into ventricular fibrillation requiring defibrillation but ultimately survived.
Also known as: Rattlesnake bite
Patient bitten by his pet yellow eyelash pit viper, which then escaped in the ER causing a hospital-wide search.
Also known as: Brain attack
Benton's mother suffered a right parietal CVA 8 months prior, still experiencing left-sided weakness, wandering behavior, and incontinence. Mentioned in relation to ongoing family caregiving responsibilities.
Also known as: GI bleed
Patient with abdominal pain and hematemesis requiring nasogastric tube and gastric lavage, part of the conflict between Dr. Benton and nursing staff.