Also known as: GSW to chest
Patient shot in the chest with bullet passing below diaphragm (nipples to navel is no man's land). Required urgent OR for intra-abdominal hemorrhage despite normal chest tube output.
Also known as: Low blood sugar
Patient with diabetes whose phone died at PittFest, preventing glucose monitor alerts. Required IV fluids and food before discharge.
Also known as: Synthetic cannabinoid overdose
Patient who overdosed at PittFest, required Narcan and observation for potential need for additional doses.
Also known as: MS
Patient with MS in wheelchair who was shot in the head and killed while being protected by his wife at the festival.
Also known as: GSW
Bullet passed through wife's arm and struck husband in head, declared dead in field by medics.
Also known as: GSW to arm
Patient shot in arm while trying to protect husband with MS, bullet passed through her arm and into husband's head.
Also known as: GSW
Navy corpsman shot through and through the thigh who continued helping victims for hours. Movement with tourniquet introduced air into femoral vein causing massive air embolism blocking blood flow to lungs. Required innovative treatment with pigtail catheter to aspirate air from right heart.
Also known as: GSW
Patient with untreated gunshot wound to thigh presenting hypotensive and altered, assigned to Trauma One.
Also known as: Chocolate blood syndrome
Patient presenting cyanotic and altered after drug exposure at festival. Chocolate brown blood and methemoglobin level of 42%. Did not respond to oxygen, required methylene blue treatment which dramatically resolved cyanosis.
Also known as: Measles
13-year-old unvaccinated child with measles (contracted in Orlando) progressing to severe pneumonia and sepsis. Developed altered mental status concerning for ADEM, a post-infection immune response with 20% death rate. Required intubation and lumbar puncture, but parents refused LP due to misinformation.
Also known as: Blood infection
13-year-old presenting with code sepsis (rash, fever, altered mental status, hypotension, tachycardia) secondary to measles pneumonia.
Teenager with concerning social media posts and a list of girls he wanted to hurt. Brought in by police during mass shooting event. Required 72-hour psychiatric hold after mother signed petition, though patient was ultimately not the shooter.