Grey’s Anatomy
The introduction of the episode, has her heart stopped pounding yet? Yeah, did not think so. Callie sings. Bailey sings. Owen sings. Alex sings. Oh my God, everyone on this show sings and sings extremely well and oh my God, Callie went through the windshield. Just breathe. Like Lexie sings those words in the OR, while she I panicked about how we were going to fix all the devastating injuries that Callie suffered from in that horrible accident. And why panic, you may ask? Pregnancy and trauma do not make for an easy medical case each complicates the other. One of the main challenges lies in the fact that the trauma team must provide care for two patients the mother and the fetus are both at risk. Also, when pregnant the mother's body has changed in certain ways that make diagnosing traumatic injuries much more difficult. Regardless of the severity of the wounds, doctors with multiple specialties will need to be involved in treatment.
This is where the action start rising, let's go through Callie's injuries. When Callie arrives at the hospital, they know she's tachycardia and hypotensive with chest and head injuries. You know how the flight attendants always say to put on your own oxygen mask before you put on the mask of a child? Same thing applies with trauma and pregnancy. Doctors always make sure the mother is stabilized first, because that will give the fetus the best chance of survival. If there are enough doctors, as in Callie's case, they can begin to check the fetus simultaneously. Callie is "tachycardia" (her heart is beating too fast) and "hypotensive" (her blood pressure is dangerously low). Immediately, the doctors want to get her stabilized. They give Callie supplemental oxygen as soon as they can in order to prevent mom and the fetus from becoming hypoxic (deprived of oxygen). When Teddy cannot detect breath sounds on the right side of Callie's chest, the team knows they need to insert a chest tube to help her breathe. Now with...