Also known as: Tubal pregnancy
A young woman named April presents to the ED with abdominal pain during the hurricane evacuation. She is diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy and is being controlled by a sex trafficker who tries to force medication treatment instead of the safer surgical option. Dr. Bloom helps her escape the trafficking situation while managing the pregnancy complication.
Also known as: Kidney failure
A food cart vendor with a traumatic hip injury develops acute kidney failure (his remaining kidney after donating one to his daughter). Max must get him to the sixth floor for dialysis during the hurricane while the elevators and stairwells are compromised.
Also known as: Broken hip
Fareed presents with a traumatic hip injury from the storm that requires stabilization before he can be moved, which leads to discovery of his kidney failure.
Also known as: Collapsed lung
Miss Kate, who helps Horace in his basement apartment, is crushed by a falling beam during the hurricane and develops a pneumothorax (tension pneumothorax requiring needle decompression) along with a rib fracture. Dr. Reynolds performs an emergency procedure using improvised materials.
Also known as: Broken rib
Miss Kate sustains a rib fracture with exposed bone from the beam collapse, which Dr. Reynolds must manually reposition using improvised techniques during the hurricane.
Also known as: Gas poisoning
Multiple patients and staff sheltering in the hospital stairwell during the hurricane develop carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas leak, causing respiratory distress and cardiac symptoms. Iggy must evacuate everyone before they lose consciousness.