Also known as: Gunshot to the leg
9-year-old boy shot multiple times at a political rally, sustaining life-threatening injuries to heart, liver, spleen, and other organs requiring emergency thoracotomy and massive transfusion protocol. Later develops arterial clot requiring emergency vascular surgery.
Also known as: Head trauma
8-year-old boy shot once in the head at a political rally, requiring decompressive craniectomy and removal of skull to reduce brain pressure. Develops seizures from a migrating bullet fragment that requires innovative endoscopic retrieval.
Also known as: Shock from blood loss
Patient experiences severe blood loss from multiple gunshot wounds requiring massive transfusion protocol, exhausting hospital blood supply and necessitating emergency donation from his mother and medevac transport from other hospitals.
Also known as: Blood clot in leg artery
During prolonged surgery for gunshot wounds, Mason develops a clot in his popliteal artery causing loss of pulse to his foot, requiring emergency embolectomy complicated by arterial tear.
Also known as: Pregnancy diabetes test
Lea undergoes routine glucose tolerance testing for gestational diabetes screening during her pregnancy. Results are pending throughout the episode as she waits in the hospital during the mass casualty event.
Also known as: Partial seizure
Ethan develops focal seizures originating from the left side of his brain (opposite the gunshot injury), caused by a previously undetected bullet fragment that migrated through CSF spaces.