Also known as: GSW
Student shot during school shooting with bullet exiting right temple; treated in field but prognosis poor due to significant brain injury.
Also known as: GSW with vascular injury
13-year-old school shooting victim with groin GSW causing pulseless leg. Bullet traveled through femoral vein to heart (cardiac embolization), requiring emergency cardiac surgery to extract bullet and vascular surgery to save leg.
Also known as: Blood in chest cavity
School shooter with GSW to chest causing massive bleeding. Kovac inserted chest tube in field but patient went into cardiac arrest during transport conflict and died at Mercy Hospital.
Also known as: Thyrotoxic crisis
MVA patient presenting with combativeness, hypertension (200/100), and large goiter. Treated with IV Inderal and PTU for thyroid storm.
Also known as: Dislocated hip
Same MVA patient with thyroid storm also had posterior hip dislocation requiring closed reduction by Carter and Abby.
Also known as: Heart attack
Brief mention of 'hot MI in Curtain 3' requiring immediate attention.
Also known as: Abruption
32-week pregnant college student stabbed in abdomen (possibly self-inflicted) causing placental abruption. Patient refused emergency C-section despite fetal distress. Kovac performed emergency delivery without consent but baby was stillborn.
Also known as: Stabbing
College student with stab wound to right lower quadrant, suspected to be self-inflicted, that damaged placenta causing abruption.
Also known as: Broken collarbone
Rugby player with mid-shaft clavicle fracture that Abby initially missed associated rib fracture and tension pneumothorax, requiring emergency needle decompression and chest tube by Mark Greene.
Also known as: Collapsed lung
Rugby player developed tension pneumothorax from missed rib fracture, presenting with hypotension and near-arrest, requiring emergency needle decompression and chest tube.
Also known as: Gunshot wound to artery
School shooter discovered during cardiac surgery to have second bullet that hit subclavian artery causing massive hemorrhage and V-fib arrest during operation.
Also known as: Heroin addiction
Carter's addiction to prescription painkillers (fentanyl, other opioids) is revealed when Abby witnesses him self-injecting fentanyl. Staff intervention leads to ultimatum: rehab or termination. Eventually agrees to go to Atlanta rehab facility.