Also known as: Cold exposure
Homeless man found in a park with severe hypothermia (core temp 86°F) and cardiac arrest. The team attempts active core rewarming with pleural and peritoneal lavage, following the principle that patients aren't dead until they're warm and dead. Despite aggressive resuscitation, the patient dies.
Also known as: Second-degree burns
Beauty pageant contestant injured in a hair salon chemical explosion. She sustains partial-thickness burns and lacerations to her legs plus smoke inhalation. She's concerned about competing in Miss Tri-State pageant that night. Greene arranges for a mortuary cosmetologist to help cover her wounds.
End-stage pediatric patient with Niemann-Pick Type A disease presenting with bruising and bleeding due to thrombocytopenia from enlarged spleen. Mother desperately wants splenectomy to buy more time with her son. Chen advocates for surgery but Romano and other surgeons refuse, calling it inappropriate for a terminal patient.
Also known as: UTI
Elderly nursing home patient with altered mental status and combative behavior, believing he's fighting in the Korean War. Diagnosis reveals a severe UTI causing delirium. Subplot involves discovery he's AWOL from the Army since 1951, creating a social services dilemma.
Also known as: GSW to chest
Young female with multiple gunshot wounds including one to the chest causing hemopneumothorax. Goes into cardiac arrest requiring emergent thoracotomy. Carter performs successful Beck's suture repair of right and left ventricular perforations. Patient survives to OR for septal defect repair.
Also known as: GSW
After her sister is shot, this woman brings a gun into the ER and shoots herself in the head in front of Carter and the team. She has fixed and dilated pupils with gray matter visible. Team attempts resuscitation but she cannot be saved.
Also known as: Head laceration
Young assailant who attacked Luka and Abby with a pipe is brought in after Luka beat him severely. Patient has severe closed head injury with loss of consciousness, GCS of 8, multiple seizures, blown right pupil indicating herniation, and subdural hematoma. Kovac performs emergent burr hole. Patient arrests multiple times during resuscitation.
Also known as: Cut
Patient presents with hand laceration from attempting to open a tuna can with a knife. Chen sutures the wound after performing a regional nerve block.
Also known as: Facial cut
Benton's teenage nephew Jesse is brought to ER by his mother after getting into a fight. He has a superficial laceration above eyebrow and periorbital swelling. Benton considers getting a CT scan but ultimately determines it's not necessary.
Also known as: Cut
Kovac sustains a head laceration during a mugging attempt while on a date with Abby. He briefly loses consciousness after being hit from behind with a pipe. He refuses treatment initially but the wound requires suturing.