Also known as: Colorectal cancer
Chloe, Mika's younger sister, is diagnosed with stage 3B rectal cancer requiring immediate chemotherapy and radiation. The team performs ovarian transposition surgery to preserve her fertility before starting cancer treatment.
Also known as: Flesh-eating bacteria
A 34-year-old woman with recent BBL surgery develops necrotizing fasciitis after falling and sustaining a thigh laceration. Bacteria entered through the wound causing rapid soft-tissue infection requiring emergency surgical debridement of infected gluteal tissue.
Also known as: Lung infection
A 55-year-old high school band director with history of smoking and pulmonary fibrosis is hospitalized with multi-drug-resistant gram-negative pneumonia. His condition deteriorates requiring intubation and ECMO support when he becomes critically hypoxemic.
Also known as: Scarring of the lungs
Pre-existing condition in the band director patient that complicates his pneumonia treatment and contributes to his severe respiratory decline.
Also known as: Twins
Amelia and Link discover at their first OB appointment that they are expecting twins, revealed at the end of the episode.