Also known as: Hip bruise
Bishop Stewart falls and presents with hip pain. X-ray reveals degenerative changes but no fracture. He is treated with Solu-Medrol for arthritis-related inflammation and prescribed a cane.
Also known as: Cocaine overdose
Young woman who swallowed condoms filled with cocaine as a drug mule. One package leaked, causing severe hypertension and requiring emergency treatment with phentolamine and esmolol drips to prevent seizures and cardiovascular collapse.
Frequent flier patient who presents with self-inflicted injury to genitals using suture scissors. Weaver criticizes lack of psychiatric consult, though the injury was superficial and not life-threatening.
Also known as: Blood and air in chest cavity
Seven-year-old girl struck by pickup truck in crosswalk. Presents with chest injury requiring chest tube placement. She bleeds over a liter from chest, develops cardiac arrest despite resuscitation efforts, and dies from her injuries.
Also known as: Liver injury
Mother struck by pickup truck with daughter, sustaining stage-three stellate liver fracture. Requires emergency surgery with Pringle maneuver and argon beam coagulation to control massive bleeding. Romano takes over surgery from Corday.
Also known as: Torn aorta
Fatal injury in the seven-year-old trauma victim. Kovac concludes the child likely tore her aorta from the impact, leading to uncontrollable bleeding and death despite resuscitation efforts.
Also known as: Kidney injury from bus accident
Drunk driver who caused the fatal accident. Presents with periumbilical tenderness after crash. Receives CT scan but crashes during the procedure, requires intubation, receives last rites, and dies on the table.
Also known as: Brain cancer
Mark is undergoing daily radiation therapy for six weeks for his brain tumor. He is at the hospital for his radiation treatment and waiting for immune therapy/tumor vaccine to be ready.
Also known as: Heroin addiction
Carter confesses to Weaver that he took Vicodin from a patient's prescription bottle and then made himself vomit. This represents a relapse concern in his ongoing recovery from addiction.