Also known as: Obliterative bronchiolitis
Six-year-old Ryan has been on ECMO for four weeks due to end-stage bronchiolitis obliterans. The episode centers on a groundbreaking bilateral living-donor lung transplant where each of his fathers donates one lower lobe. Due to a donor's sinus infection, the surgical team innovatively splits one donor's lobe into two to create both new lungs.
Also known as: Ruptured spleen
Katie, a 27-year-old with stage two gastric cancer, is in a car accident. Imaging reveals splenic bleeding requiring emergency splenectomy, which delays her chemotherapy treatment.
Also known as: Stomach cancer
Katie has stage two gastric cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. During her splenectomy following a car accident, surgeons discover concerning lesions on her liver suggesting metastatic spread, dramatically worsening her prognosis.
Also known as: Third-degree burn
Ray sustained partial thickness burns (3% TBSA) to his left forearm from a camping cooking accident. Post-op day one from skin grafting, he develops a hematoma requiring urgent surgical drainage, complicated by his warfarin use.
Also known as: Sinus infection
One of Ryan's fathers develops a sinus infection that causes fever during surgery preparation, temporarily halting the living lung donation and forcing the surgical team to revise their approach to use only one donor.