Also known as: Underdeveloped left heart
Young boy with hypoplastic left heart and Blalock shunt presents unresponsive, develops tension pneumothorax requiring chest tube, then thromboses his shunt leading to cardiac arrest and death despite resuscitation attempts.
Also known as: Pregnancy diabetes
Carla is diagnosed with gestational diabetes and needs to learn blood glucose monitoring and insulin injections. Benton takes personal time to teach her and help manage her condition.
Also known as: Collapsed lung
Joel develops a tension pneumothorax during his cardiac crisis, requiring emergency chest tube placement by Dr. Ross.
Also known as: Severe allergic reaction
Post-operative patient develops life-threatening anaphylactic reaction to Ancef antibiotic, with tongue swelling and respiratory arrest requiring emergency cricothyrotomy. Edson falsifies the chart to hide that he failed to take proper allergy history.
Also known as: GSW to abdomen
Gunshot victim with retroperitoneal bleeding that Carter successfully tamponades using a Foley catheter balloon technique he learned from a magazine article.
Patient with acute pancreatitis and large pseudocyst that Dr. Weaver uses as a teaching case for Carol, demonstrating physical examination and ultrasound techniques.
Also known as: Kidney injury from bus accident
Painter who fell 20 feet onto a car, requiring diagnostic peritoneal lavage that proves positive, leading to emergency exploratory laparotomy.