Also known as: Severe dehydration
A lost camper found in the desert after being missing for approximately two months, suffering from severe dehydration and malnutrition causing altered mental status and confusion about the timeline of events.
Also known as: Kidney infection
The patient developed severe emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) with abscesses in the right kidney requiring emergency kidney autotransplant surgery.
Also known as: Heart valve infection
During kidney surgery, the patient went into cardiogenic shock due to a failed mitral valve from endocarditis, requiring emergency cardiac intervention with balloon pump placement.
Also known as: Brain bleed
A teenage girl trapped in a car after a gurney fell on it developed an epidural bleed from head trauma when the sunroof shattered. She initially appeared fine but then deteriorated, requiring emergency neurosurgical intervention.
Also known as: Bone cancer
A teenage patient with stage 2 osteosarcoma who was due for his next round of chemotherapy but was instead trapped in a car accident in the hospital parking lot.
Also known as: Broken collarbone
Dave sustained a broken collarbone and badly bruised shoulder when a gurney fell on the car he was in.
Also known as: Head trauma
A man who fell from his roof while retrieving his son's frisbee sustained a severe traumatic brain injury with herniation. Despite 37 minutes of resuscitation attempts, he was pronounced dead.
Also known as: Broken pelvis
A motor vehicle collision patient with an open-book pelvis fracture that required overnight surgical management.