Also known as: Liver failure
A transgender woman develops fulminant hepatic failure from tetrachloroethane contamination in black-market estrogen injections from Mexico. She experiences encephalopathy, coagulopathy with GI bleeding, cardiac arrest from hyperkalemia, and requires emergent liver transplant evaluation. Her family struggles with her transition while facing the need for living donor transplantation.
Also known as: Brain dysfunction from liver failure
Patient presents with altered mental status, asterixis, and elevated ammonia levels secondary to her acute liver failure, requiring lactulose treatment.
Also known as: Firework impalement
Truck driver suffers abdominal and pelvic trauma after swerving to avoid a pedestrian and hitting a pole.
Also known as: Perforated intestine
Postoperative patient develops bowel perforation with abscess formation, requiring surgical débridement and primary closure. She subsequently develops sepsis from multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter infection that is resistant to all available antibiotics.
Also known as: Blood infection
Mother of four develops overwhelming sepsis from multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter infection following bowel surgery, with no effective antibiotic options. She chooses to be intubated despite poor prognosis, hoping for a miracle.
Also known as: High blood pressure
Elderly patient repeatedly returns to ER for medication refills after running out of his blood pressure medications, demonstrating inappropriate ER utilization.
Also known as: Liver scarring
Patient's mother is discovered to have cirrhosis from past alcohol use during liver transplant donor workup, preventing her from being able to donate to her child.
Also known as: PTSD
Dr. Morris undergoes mandatory psychiatric debriefing following a hostage situation with a fatality. He denies symptoms but colleagues express concern about his emotional state.