Also known as: Chlamydia
13-year-old boy presents with testicular pain and is diagnosed with chlamydia from sexual activity with multiple classmates. One of the girls he infected develops serious complications requiring hospitalization for tubo-ovarian abscess.
Also known as: Heart attack
Frank suffers a massive anterior MI requiring emergency cardiac catheterization. During the procedure, the calcified artery is perforated by the stent, causing cardiac tamponade that requires pericardiocentesis and emergency bypass surgery.
Also known as: Blood infection
42-year-old man with baseline brain injury from forklift accident presents with severe sepsis after pulling out his PICC line. He becomes hypotensive requiring pressors and central access, then suffers cardiac arrest. His daughter struggles with end-of-life decisions until the patient himself indicates he wants treatment stopped.
Also known as: Head trauma
Mr. Taslitz has a baseline severe brain injury from a forklift crushing him two years prior, leaving him unable to talk, walk, or move. The episode reveals through his daughter that this injury occurred during an incident related to his sexual abuse of her as a teenager.
Also known as: Gunshot to the leg
41-year-old male shot by police after stealing a tank and driving to the hospital. He sustains three gunshots to chest, neck, and shoulder, resulting in pneumothorax requiring chest tube and hemorrhagic shock requiring blood transfusion. Morris successfully places the chest tube.
Also known as: Drug-induced psychosis
Patient with history of cocaine and amphetamine abuse presents with paranoia, pressured speech, and delusions of grandeur. Abby discharges him after finding no physical cause for his complaints. He subsequently steals a military tank and drives it to the hospital in a psychotic state, creating a major crisis.
Also known as: Major injuries from car accident
7-year-old boy struck by stolen tank in head-on collision. He sustains bilateral femur fractures, pelvic fracture, multiple rib fractures with flail chest, and pneumothorax requiring chest tube placement. He goes to surgery while his father is treated for retroperitoneal bleeding.
Also known as: Internal bleeding
Adult male driver in vehicle struck by stolen tank sustains retroperitoneal bleeding requiring interventional radiology embolization of small bleeder. He recovers without surgery.
Also known as: PID
One of Brian's teenage sexual partners develops upper-tract chlamydia infection progressing to PID with large tubo-ovarian abscess. She is admitted by GYN for IV antibiotics with risk of needing surgery and potential loss of fallopian tube.