Also known as: Stage 4 lung cancer
Mrs. Fong has advanced lung cancer with brain metastases causing seizures. Her family has hidden the diagnosis from her for a year, telling her she has tuberculosis, creating an ethical dilemma about informed consent and cultural differences in disclosure.
Also known as: Seizure
Mrs. Fong experiences seizures secondary to brain metastases from lung cancer. She has another seizure after learning about her cancer diagnosis, resulting in memory loss and confusion.
Also known as: Bleeding in the knee joint
Professional wrestler Mr. Kornberg presents with bleeding inside his knee joint following a wrestling match injury, requiring joint aspiration.
Also known as: Broken pelvis
17-year-old struck by an ambulance driven by Carter, sustaining a crushed pelvis with open-book fracture causing severe internal bleeding requiring angiographic embolization.
Also known as: Torn urethra
Blood at the urethral meatus indicates possible torn urethra secondary to pelvic trauma from being struck by ambulance.
Also known as: Severe dehydration
Mobalage presents from jail severely dehydrated from not eating or drinking, requiring IV fluid resuscitation.
Also known as: PTSD
Mobalage suffered trauma from soldiers in Nigeria, leading to PTSD that affected his response to the emergency when his wife was injured, though she ultimately reveals she harmed herself.
Young girl fell from second story onto wrought-iron fence, with fence bar impaled through her airway requiring innovative cricothyrotomy technique using supplies Doug Ross had ordered.
Also known as: Gunshot to the leg
Paramedic Lars suffers multiple gunshot wounds to head, neck, and chest during an ambush. Despite extensive resuscitation efforts in the OR including internal cardiac massage, he dies.
Also known as: Liver inflammation
Jeanie discovers she likely contracted hepatitis C from a patient rather than from her ex-husband Al, who tested negative.
Also known as: Unplanned pregnancy
Carol reveals to Kerry at the end of the episode that she is one week late and pregnant, presumably with Doug Ross's child.