Also known as: GSW to the mouth
Fourteen-year-old male with self-inflicted gunshot wound to the mouth requiring emergency cricothyroidotomy performed by Carter when intubation was impossible due to massive facial trauma and blood loss.
Also known as: Blood clot in lung
Drunk driver in motor vehicle accident presenting with shock. Carter correctly diagnoses saddle embolus against Swift's initial assessment of cardiomyopathy, requiring emergent pulmonary angiography and surgical intervention.
Also known as: Heart injury from chest trauma
Considered as differential diagnosis in the drunk driver who hit steering wheel, though pulmonary embolism was the actual diagnosis.
Also known as: Fever after chemo
Pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia patient post-chemotherapy presenting with fever and neutropenia, requiring broad-spectrum antibiotics and evaluation for bacterial infection including possible meningitis.
Also known as: ALL
Underlying diagnosis for the teenage patient being treated with chemotherapy who develops febrile neutropenia. Carter bonds with him over video games.
Also known as: AIDS
End-stage AIDS patient with multiple complications presenting with bowel obstruction from recurrent lymphoma. Mother refuses surgical intervention (colostomy), choosing comfort care instead.
Also known as: Blocked intestine
Bowel obstruction from enlarged lymph nodes due to recurrent lymphoma in end-stage AIDS patient. Surgical intervention declined by mother in favor of comfort measures.
Also known as: Heart attack
Mentioned briefly as a patient Greene is treating at the beginning of the episode.
Also known as: GSW
Fifteen-year-old with gunshot wound to the head sustained during attempted robbery of a 7-Eleven, arriving at the very end of the episode.
Also known as: Knife wound
Mentioned as keeping Benton occupied in surgery at the beginning of the episode.