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Season 10, Episode 15

12 medical diagnoses portrayed

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Also known as: Gas poisoning

SeizuresAltered mental statusFetal distress

An entire family is found unconscious due to carbon monoxide from a faulty heater. The pregnant mother is saved because her baby's hemoglobin absorbed the CO, but this puts the newborn at critical risk requiring hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

ER — S10E15Patient: Bennett family (Vicki, Clay, Nolan, Shannon, Samuel)

Also known as: Baby in distress

Neonatal resuscitation requiredSevere carbon monoxide exposure

The baby develops severe distress from absorbing carbon monoxide meant for the mother, which induces premature labor. After delivery, he requires immediate resuscitation and hyperbaric oxygen therapy with carboxyhemoglobin level of 48%.

ER — S10E15Patient: Samuel Bennett
Pneumothoraxsupporting

Also known as: Collapsed lung

Tension pneumothoraxRequired chest tube placement

While undergoing hyperbaric oxygen therapy for CO poisoning, the infant develops a tension pneumothorax requiring emergency needle decompression and chest tube placement inside the hyperbaric chamber.

ER — S10E15Patient: Samuel Bennett

Also known as: Meth overdose

Altered mental statusAgitationHallucinations

A young male found covered in blood presents with severe agitation, hallucinations about demons, and altered mental status. Found with a meth pipe. Later revealed to be the perpetrator of stabbings.

ER — S10E15Patient: John Doe (young male)

Also known as: Stabbing

Hemorrhagic shockLacerated liver and spleenDeath

Woman in her fifties with multiple stab wounds to neck, chest, and abdomen from her son's drug-induced attack. She suffers massive blood loss, hypotension, and dies despite resuscitation efforts.

ER — S10E15Patient: Clara Waskowitz

Also known as: Stabbing

Lacerated liver and spleenHemorrhagic shock

Husband stabbed 11 times by his son, suffering abdominal wounds requiring open laparotomy, thoracoscopy, and pericardiectomy. Taken to surgery while still hypotensive.

ER — S10E15Patient: Mr. Waskowitz
Pneumoniasupporting

Also known as: Lung infection

Jing-Mei's father develops pneumonia while bed-bound recovering from a pelvic fracture sustained in the car accident that killed his wife. He requires hospital admission for IV antibiotics.

ER — S10E15Patient: Mr. Chen (Jing-Mei Chen's father)
Recurring storyline

Also known as: Blood clot in lung

Fatal outcome

Mentioned as the cause of death for Jing-Mei's mother following the car accident in China, occurring while Jing-Mei was asleep at the hotel.

ER — S10E15Patient: Mrs. Chen (Jing-Mei Chen's mother, deceased)
Recurring storyline

Also known as: Strep throat

Young girl left alone in the ER by her working single father presents with sore throat and fever. Culture confirms strep throat requiring antibiotics, but case highlights abandonment concerns.

ER — S10E15Patient: Christy (young girl)
Pregnancysupporting

Also known as: Unplanned pregnancy

Unplanned pregnancyOral contraceptive failure

42-year-old grandmother of five presents with nausea, vomiting, and fatigue. Discovers she is pregnant due to St. John's Wort rendering her birth control pills ineffective.

ER — S10E15Patient: Nancy Natarelli

Also known as: Perforated eardrum

Bleeding from ear

While in the hyperbaric chamber treating the infant, Neela experiences ear pain and bleeds from her ear due to a perforated eardrum from pressure changes during emergency ascent.

ER — S10E15Patient: Neela Rasgotra
Pregnancysupporting

Also known as: Unplanned pregnancy

Susan reveals to her father that she is pregnant with Chuck Martin's baby, a recurring character arc throughout the episode as she struggles with when and how to tell him.

ER — S10E15Patient: Susan Lewis
Recurring storyline