Also known as: Gunshot to the leg
A security guard who interrupted a rape sustains multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, abdomen, and thigh with massive blood loss. Despite aggressive resuscitation including thoracotomy, he dies from a shredded left ventricle.
Also known as: Rape
A 72-year-old woman is attacked in a parking garage. The perpetrator attempts to strangle her, pushes her down stairs, and carves 'WHORE' into her abdomen with a knife. She survives with respiratory distress, laryngeal edema requiring intubation, head trauma, and a dislocated hip.
Also known as: GSW to chest
A 19-year-old rapist shot by police with a large-caliber GSW to the chest causing massive hemothorax, likely involving the pulmonary artery. Carter controversially uses autotransfusion rather than the limited O-negative blood supply. The patient survives to surgery.
Also known as: Heart attack
An overweight 62-year-old man suffers a myocardial infarction while shoveling 2 feet of wet snow, mentioned briefly as a case.
Also known as: Car accident injuries
A family in a minivan hits an overpass on the Kennedy Expressway. The mother is in critical condition with a tension pneumothorax requiring needle decompression.
Also known as: Childbirth
A woman with intellectual disability presents in active labor at 7 centimeters dilation, initially fearful that authorities will take her baby. She successfully delivers a healthy baby girl named Madison with support from Carol and her husband Robert.
Also known as: Mental retardation
A couple with intellectual disabilities becomes new parents. The episode explores concerns about their ability to care for an infant despite being loving parents with support from Mary's sister.
Also known as: Cold exposure
A homeless patient with hypothermia is brought in during a snowstorm and is being rewarmed in the ER at the start of the episode.