Also known as: CHF
Danny Rutley presents with acute congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema requiring intubation. He develops cardiomyopathy from untreated hypertension, suffers multiple episodes of ventricular fibrillation during resuscitation attempts, and ultimately dies despite prolonged efforts.
Also known as: Severe asthma attack
Young man presents in severe respiratory distress with tight wheezing and difficulty breathing. His asthma attack is so severe he requires difficult intubation via fiber optic scope, and imaging suggests possible pneumothorax complication.
Also known as: Dislocated knee
Police officer teaching an assaultive behavior class dislocates his patella twice during demonstrations, requiring reduction procedures and discharge with crutches.
Also known as: Head laceration
Good Samaritan flower delivery driver who crashed his van while rushing sick patients to the hospital sustains head laceration and possible altered mental status, requiring head CT and neurological monitoring.
Also known as: Lung infection
Young patient presents with week-long fever and cough, initially thought to be a cold. Examination reveals pneumonia with significantly low oxygen saturation requiring hospital admission.
Also known as: V-tach
Patient presenting with palpitations develops multiple episodes of stable ventricular tachycardia requiring lidocaine and amiodarone, ultimately revealed to be faking after Sam shocks him at low joules.
Also known as: Early-onset Alzheimer's
Elderly man with progressive Alzheimer's disease and sundowning requires nursing home placement after his caregiver son dies. He repeatedly forgets his son's death and lacks capacity to consent to his own care decisions.
Also known as: Crohn's disease
Patient mentioned as an incoming case with Crohn's disease complicated by fistula formation.