Also known as: Head laceration
Baby Adam falls from a shopping cart and sustains head trauma. He becomes apneic and seizes, requiring intubation consideration. CT scan is performed and he eventually wakes up and recovers.
Also known as: Digoxin overdose
Elderly man with macular degeneration presents with vomiting and cardiac symptoms. EKG shows PVCs and scooped ST segments suggesting digoxin toxicity. An empty bottle of digoxin is found, raising concerns about possible suicide attempt.
Also known as: Third-degree burn
Mother sets herself on fire in the hospital parking lot in front of her son after CPS removes her children. She sustains 90% total body surface area burns with singed nasal hairs and soot in mouth indicating inhalation injury. Despite knowing she is likely to die, she refuses intubation to say goodbye to her son.
Also known as: Internal bleeding
Crush victim presents hypotensive with ecchymotic, distended abdomen requiring emergency surgery. Patient is taken to OR for IVC repair but dies postoperatively.
Also known as: Brain bleed
Woman with forehead laceration waits 11 hours in triage and leaves without being seen. She returns later with massive intracranial hemorrhage showing blown pupil and Cushing's triad (hypertension, bradycardia). She codes during intubation and dies, highlighting failures in triage and emergency care.
Also known as: Alcoholism
Paula Martin exhibits signs of alcohol use while caring for her children, with alcohol on her breath when her baby is injured. This contributes to CPS involvement and her eventual suicide attempt.
Also known as: Depression
Paula is on Zoloft for depression related to her divorce and custody battle. Her depression escalates to a suicide attempt by self-immolation.
Also known as: Knee bursitis
Carpet installer with twisted knee, diagnosed by Kovac through focused history and physical without X-ray, treated with Indocin.
Also known as: Age-related vision loss
Elderly architect with dry macular degeneration causing progressive blindness, which contributed to his digoxin overdose and raises suicide concerns.
Also known as: Paralyzed bowel
Patient with suspected bowel obstruction shows air-fluid levels on upright abdomen film, diagnosed as ileus rather than mechanical obstruction.
Also known as: Ear infection
Patient with vesicles on tympanic membrane diagnosed with bullous myringitis caused by mycoplasma, treated with erythromycin during triage clearing.
Also known as: Yeast infection of the skin
Superficial fungal infection treated with clotrimazole cream during the triage clearing scene.