Also known as: MS
Dr. Bell's ongoing MS is referenced as he experiences fatigue during a long surgical day. He mentions the steroids are working and he hasn't needed his cane, showing the condition is currently under control but remains a concern.
Also known as: Terminal cancer
AJ's mother Carol's cancer has progressed to her chest walls and brain, causing severe pain that wraps around her chest and back. She is given a prognosis of approximately two months and begins hospice care at home.
Also known as: Bruised heart
A store owner struck by a street racing car sustains a cardiac contusion causing refractory V-fib. The Go Team performs field ECMO, which becomes complicated with hypovolemia and later an arterial tear during transport, requiring emergency surgery.
Also known as: Stab wound
A teenage street racer suffers a penetrating abdominal injury from metal piercing his abdomen, along with a grade IV splenic laceration requiring splenectomy. He also sustains bilateral leg fractures.
Also known as: Compound leg fracture
The street racer has an open fracture of the right femur with active bleeding requiring tourniquet application and later surgical rodding.
Also known as: Bilateral tib-fib fractures
Comminuted fractures of both tibia and fibula bones bilaterally requiring external fixation.
Also known as: Antifreeze poisoning
A pharmacist is poisoned with ethylene glycol (antifreeze) in an attempted murder related to prescription fraud. She develops severe metabolic acidosis, acute respiratory distress, and renal failure. Despite treatment attempts, she is later murdered in the hospital.
Also known as: Brain bleed
The poisoned pharmacist also sustains a traumatic brain bleed from her fall down the stairs, requiring emergency burr hole evacuation to relieve pressure.
Also known as: ARDS
The pharmacist develops bilateral pulmonary infiltrates and severe respiratory distress as a complication of ethylene glycol poisoning, requiring intubation.
Also known as: Air trapping
During surgery, the patient develops auto-PEEP where air becomes trapped in the lungs and compresses the heart, causing dangerous hypotension. The anesthesiologist disconnects the ventilator briefly to adjust settings and resolve the condition.
Also known as: Shock from blood loss
The street racer experiences hemorrhagic shock from multiple bleeding injuries, making intubation particularly dangerous as he could arrest during induction.
Also known as: Ruptured spleen
Grade IV laceration of the spleen requiring emergency splenectomy during surgery.