Also known as: GSW to chest
A 20-year-old male who perpetrated the campus shooting sustains a gunshot wound to the chest with a tear in the right ventricle. Cristina performs an emergency thoracotomy in the field and maintains hemostasis with her hand on the hole. The surgery becomes ethically charged when the team discovers he is the shooter, causing staff to refuse to assist.
Also known as: Head trauma
A 48-year-old professor falls from a fourth-story window after helping students escape the shooter. He has an open skull fracture with blown pupil and herniating brain. Derek performs a bilateral craniectomy, removing both sides of his skull to allow for brain swelling.
Also known as: GSW
A 15-year-old shooting victim with gunshot wounds to the leg and abdomen. Dr. Stark initially plans to amputate her leg due to the severe vascular and bone damage, but Karev physically blocks him. Arizona Robbins returns and takes over the case, performing vascular repair and bone stabilization to save the leg.
Also known as: Gunshot to the leg
A 28-year-old police officer who took down the shooter sustains gunshot wounds to the arm and leg. Initial X-rays miss abdominal bleeding, which is later detected by ultrasound. With no ORs available, Chief Webber performs emergency surgery in a trauma room to save the officer's life.
Also known as: Self-inflicted gunshot wound to neck
A 21-year-old wrestler with a zone two neck injury from a grazing gunshot wound. He develops a hematoma requiring vascular repair. Bailey performs the repair in an improvised MASH-style unit when ORs are unavailable.
Also known as: Brain bleed
A young female shooting victim develops an intracranial hemorrhage requiring emergency burr holes and evacuation of the clot. Lexie Grey performs the procedure under Mark Sloan's supervision in an improvised surgical setting.
Also known as: Gunshot wound to the side
A patient with an active hemorrhage from a flank gunshot wound arrives when the hospital is at capacity and ORs are full.
Also known as: GSW
A shooting victim with a gunshot wound to the shoulder treated during the mass casualty event.