Also known as: Torn artery in armpit
Acrobat who fell from trapeze and caught his armpit on a cable, causing severe arterial bleeding and shock requiring emergency surgical repair.
Also known as: Asthma medication overdose
Young man who overdosed on asthma medication while stressed, resulting in seizure while driving and subsequent crash. Later revealed to be victim of domestic violence.
Also known as: Heart failure needing heart transplant
Young woman with end-stage heart failure on L-VAD who receives heart transplant but suffers stroke during surgery, resulting in permanent vegetative state. Her new heart is then given to another patient in a domino transplant.
Also known as: Brain attack
Devastating complication during heart transplant surgery, possibly from L-VAD-related clot, leaving patient brain dead and leading to domino heart procedure.
Also known as: Parkinson's
Elderly woman with 15-year history of Parkinson's presenting with inability to walk, creating conflict over whether to admit when daughter is exhausted from caregiving burden.
Also known as: Bone marrow failure
Father and daughter both present with aplastic anemia caused by chloramphenicol injections from illegal back-room clinic dispensing banned Mexican medications.
Also known as: GI bleed
Patient who developed gastrointestinal bleeding from taking Mexican combination painkillers containing steroids, requiring ICU admission for steroid taper.
Also known as: Multiple broken ribs on both sides
Man pinned against truck by car in ambulance bay, suffering multiple rib fractures requiring bilateral chest tubes and innovative vacuum cleaner suction system during water crisis.
Patient discovered on x-ray to have eaten nails, requiring emergency surgical consultation.
Also known as: Intimate partner violence
Young man who is victim of physical abuse by his partner Curt, initially presenting with seizure from medication overdose, later refusing social work intervention.
Also known as: Broken thigh bone
Pediatric patient struck by vehicle as pedestrian, suffering femur fracture.
Also known as: Broken facial bones
Patient who crashed snowmobile into tree with severe facial trauma requiring emergency tracheostomy using trach light due to inability to intubate.