Also known as: Stab wound
A magician's assistant is accidentally cut through the abdomen with a chain saw during a magic trick gone wrong. She requires extensive damage control surgery including nephrectomy and bowel resection, then develops abdominal compartment syndrome requiring emergency decompression.
Also known as: Puff of smoke disease
A 7-year-old girl with moyamoya disease undergoes an omental flap procedure to revascularize her brain. The surgery involves transplanting tissue with healthy vessels from her abdomen to her brain to improve blood supply.
Also known as: Perforated stomach
A 21-year-old woman celebrating her birthday ingests a drink made with liquid nitrogen called a 'smoking nipple,' causing severe gastric injury. She requires a total gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction to remove the destroyed stomach and reconnect her intestine to her esophagus.
Also known as: Brain on the outside
A newborn with a rare combination of encephalocele and facial cleft. A craniofacial specialist performs surgery to resect the encephalocele and repair the cleft, using calvarial bone graft from the skull to form the skull base.
Also known as: Sleeping pill overdose
A young boy takes his grandmother's sleeping pills in an apparent suicide attempt after his father falls into a coma. He is treated with flumazenil to reverse the effects of the benzodiazepine-like medication.
Also known as: Persistent vegetative state
A patient in prolonged coma following aortic transection repair and post-operative inferior MI. Cristina attempts to use zolpidem (a GABA agonist) to reverse the coma based on international studies, but the patient does not wake up after an hour.
Also known as: Staph carrier
Bailey discovers she is a carrier of MRSA USA600, which caused fatal infections in three of her surgical patients. The revelation devastates her and she isolates herself, developing obsessive-compulsive behaviors around scrubbing and contamination.
Also known as: OCD Harm (violent obsessions)
Bailey exhibits signs of OCD, repeatedly testing herself for the infection and feeling persistently contaminated. She isolates in the genome lab and won't operate, believing she's a danger to patients despite being cleared.