Also known as: Completed suicide
One of Dr. Agliar's psychiatric patients committed suicide, causing emotional impact on the treating psychiatrist and prompting discussion about loss and emotional processing in clinical practice.
Also known as: Gunshot to the leg
A 35-year-old male victim of a mass shooting at a supermarket with a penetrating gunshot wound to the shoulder. The bullet shattered the scapula, ribs, and clavicle, collapsed the lung, and a bone fragment penetrated the diaphragm into the abdomen causing internal bleeding. Required thoracotomy and vascular reconstruction.
Also known as: GSW to abdomen
Male victim in his 40s from the same mass shooting event with gunshot wound to the abdomen, part of the wave of trauma patients overwhelming the emergency department.
Also known as: GSW
52-year-old female victim from the mass shooting with gunshot wounds to both legs, part of multiple casualties treated during the episode.
Also known as: GSW
14-year-old male victim from the mass shooting with a single gunshot wound to the lower left leg, treated during the mass casualty event.
Also known as: Heart attack
Patient presents with cardiogenic shock and hypotension, likely due to anterior wall myocardial infarction. Case is used to demonstrate Leyla's clinical skills when she successfully places a central line without ultrasound guidance.
Also known as: Post-op infection
The central medical innovation of the episode focuses on preventing surgical site infections in impoverished countries, which occur at nine times the rate of the United States. Imani Moore develops turnip-based sutures that change color when pH shifts indicate infection.