Also known as: Brain bleed
Tim Epstein falls off his roof while hanging holiday lights and develops a subdural hematoma requiring emergency craniotomy. He experiences significant personality changes and requires a second surgery for delayed intracerebral bleeding in the frontal lobe.
Also known as: Heart failure
Justin is a teenage patient who received a heart transplant as an infant and now requires a second transplant as his first donor heart has failed. He initially refuses the surgery due to guilt over another child dying to provide his heart, experiences V-fib during the episode, but ultimately accepts the transplant.
Also known as: Perforated stomach ulcer
Nadia Shelton is repeatedly delayed for scheduled surgery to remove her gastric ulcer. The ulcer perforates while waiting, causing massive bleeding requiring emergency surgery. Two kissing ulcers are discovered during the operation.
Also known as: Perforated stomach
A patient who is three weeks post-gastric bypass surgery presents with abdominal pain after reportedly eating fruitcake, suggesting he tore his surgical repair.
A patient who injured himself trying to gift wrap a large television for his wife presents with a strangulated hernia requiring surgical repair.
Also known as: Depression
Justin exhibits significant depression related to survivor's guilt over receiving donor hearts from deceased children. Burke identifies the depression as potentially life-threatening to transplant success and orders a psychiatric consult.