The Pitt Season 1 Episode 6

Emergency Medicine Case Files & Clinical Analysis

Every emergency department patient from Season 1 Episode 6 of The Pitt, charted with medically accurate clinical documentation, diagnostic workups, and expert clinical pearls.

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Patient arriving in the trauma bay in a cervical collar with EKG leads placed. A distinct depression and erythema are visible over the right sternoclavicular joint.

S01E06 Moderate

18 · Male

Miles Hernandez

Right chest pain, left leg pain, and shortness of breath following a motor vehicle collision (ambulance into a tree).

18-year-old male presents to the ED under police escort after stealing an ambulance and crashing it into a tree. The patient was the driver. He presents with severe shortness of breath, stridor, right chest pain, and left leg deformity. His passenger, Zac, suffered only minor lacerations.

TraumaOrthopedics +1 more

Silas Dunn being transported post-CT scan, shortly before his rapid clinical deterioration.

S01E06 Moderate

45 · Male

Silas Dunn

Right chest pain following a fall from an 8-foot ladder.

45-year-old male presents after falling approximately 8 feet (2.44 meters) from a ladder. He landed on his right chest on a carpeted floor. Wife called 911. Patient reports feeling 'a bit dizzy' just prior to the fall, prompting the team to investigate medical causes of syncope alongside the blunt trauma.

TraumaThoracic +2 more

Young man presenting with RLQ abdominal pain.

S01E06 Brief

Young Adult · Male

Unknown

Abdominal pain (suspected appendicitis)

Young male patient presenting to the ED with acute appendicitis described as 'hot appendicitis'. Case utilized for bedside teaching of medical students regarding physical exam signs and evidence-based non-operative management.

General SurgeryGastroenterology +1 more