Also known as: Collapsed lung with blood and air in chest cavity
The pediatrician father suffers a tension hemopneumothorax from the motor vehicle accident, requiring emergency needle decompression and chest tube placement in the field by the flight crew.
Also known as: Internal bleeding
The 8-year-old son has internal abdominal bleeding confirmed by peritoneal lavage, requiring emergency exploratory surgery to repair a pancreatic injury.
Zach requires surgical resection and repair of his pancreas with splenic vein repair during exploratory laparotomy performed by Benton.
Also known as: Perforated intestine
The 10-day-old infant has a perforated small intestine from the accident. During surgical repair, Gant causes iatrogenic liver bleeding leading to massive complications requiring ECMO bypass after cardiac arrest.
Also known as: Head trauma
The father sustains a head injury causing persistent confusion, disorientation, and retrograde amnesia despite normal CT and MRI scans, repeatedly forgetting about the accident and his family's injuries.
Also known as: Face injury
Zach has facial fractures that compromise his airway, requiring emergency intubation in the field using rapid sequence induction.
Also known as: Broken leg bones
The mother sustains a tib-fib fracture in the accident but remains stable enough to consent to her infant daughter's surgery.
Also known as: Liver injury
During repair of the infant's intestinal perforation, Gant causes uncontrolled bleeding from the liver by attempting to clean debris, leading to massive hemorrhage despite multiple attempts at hemostasis.
Also known as: Heart stopped
The infant's heart stops during surgery after multiple complications including liver bleeding and pneumothorax, requiring CPR and emergency placement on ECMO bypass to restore circulation.
Also known as: Shock from blood loss
The infant goes into shock from massive blood loss during surgery, losing approximately 100cc (one-third of her blood volume) from the iatrogenic liver injury.
Also known as: Prostate cancer
Elderly patient with terminal metastatic prostate cancer who is DNR/DNI and requests cryogenic preservation after death to join his wife who was frozen eight years earlier.
Also known as: Collapsed lung
During the infant's surgical crisis, her lung collapses requiring emergency chest tube placement while on the operating table, further destabilizing her condition.