Also known as: COVID
Meredith Grey remains critically ill and unconscious from COVID-19 with multiple complications. Despite stable vitals and improving chest X-rays, she develops hepatic vein and IVC thrombosis causing elevated liver enzymes and altered consciousness. A TIPS procedure is performed to remove the clot, but she still won't wake until her daughter Zola visits.
Also known as: Blood clot in liver vein
A filling defect (clot) is discovered in Meredith's hepatic vein and IVC on abdominal CT, causing her liver dysfunction and inability to stay awake due to ammonia buildup. Teddy and Winston perform a TIPS procedure in the IR suite to remove the clot.
Also known as: Brain tumor
Felix, a high school baseball pitcher, presents for follow-up after rotator cuff surgery but is found to have right-sided weakness. MRI reveals a meningioma at C6-7 compressing his spinal cord. Amelia performs a complex multi-level decompression with spinal hardware placement.
Also known as: Shoulder injury
Felix is four months post-surgery for a rotator cuff tear with persistent stiffness when throwing. He's being followed for recovery but the visit leads to discovery of a more serious neurological condition.
Also known as: Abdominal muscle bleeding
Erika injures herself while rollerblading with her kids. Initial CT shows bleeding under her abdominal muscles that was to be monitored, but the hematoma expands and she develops active bleeding requiring emergency surgery to ligate the inferior epigastric artery.
Also known as: Broken leg bones
Erika sustains a tib/fib fracture from her rollerblading accident that requires casting for six weeks but will heal without surgery.
Also known as: Heart stopped
A 37-year-old kindergarten teacher with COVID-19 who was improving and not requiring oxygen suddenly develops arrhythmias, goes into ventricular fibrillation, and dies from cardiac arrest. This death deeply affects Owen Hunt.