Also known as: Abruption
Kristen, a pregnant patient whose husband Simon is dying, experiences a placental abruption requiring emergency delivery. The case is complicated by B negative blood type during a hospital-wide blood shortage.
Also known as: Terminal cancer
Cora undergoes emergency tumor resection with the tumor wrapped around intestinal and liver vasculature. Despite surgery during a blood shortage, she develops DIC and organ failure, ultimately dying on the table.
Also known as: Dying
Simon is dying from an unspecified terminal condition and donates all his blood to save his wife Kristen during her emergency delivery. He dies shortly after meeting his newborn son.
Also known as: DIC
Cora develops DIC during surgery as a complication of her metastatic cancer and blood loss, contributing to her death.
Catherine receives good news that her tumor is responding to the chemo trial and she is living with cancer rather than dying from it, prompting celebration.
Also known as: Early-onset Alzheimer's
Sally, Cora's aunt, has advanced Alzheimer's and cannot recognize or remember her niece when told of Cora's death.
Referenced as the reason Owen and Teddy helped veterans access illegal drugs for assisted suicide. Soldiers exposed to burn pits developed scarred lungs causing slow, painful deaths.