Life Hangs in the Balance: NBC's Chicago Med Tackles a Medical Crisis

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Watch the official "Life Hangs in the Balance" clip from the NBC medical drama series Chicago Med Season 9, created by Dick Wolf and Matt Olmstead.  Chicago Med Cast:  Nick Gehlfuss, Yaya DaCosta, Torrey DeVitto, Rachel DiPillo, Colin Donnell, Brian Tee, S. Epatha Merkerson, Oliver Platt and Marlyne Barrett  Stream Chicago Med Season 9 now on Peacock!

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00:00 Dr. Marcel, Dr. Ahmad, her blood pressure just dropped 20 points, 90 over 60, and still falling.

00:05 Oh, where am I?

00:07 She's disoriented.

00:09 Hypotensive. Must be a septum shock.

00:11 Zola, start a central line and get her on pressers. We'll get her BP back up.

00:15 Get a bag on her, dial up the O2 to 15 liters.

00:18 Melissa, lead a crystalloid and set up an orthodrip.

00:20 On it.

00:21 Adriana, slow deep breaths for me, okay?

00:24 Pressure's still down.

00:26 Let me get that line in.

00:27 Got it.

00:30 [♪♪♪]

00:32 Quiet.

00:33 Go ahead.

00:34 We're in.

00:38 Okay, start the norepi, attend titrate up to a map of 65.

00:41 Norepi's on.

00:42 Okay, cycle the BP cuff.

00:44 Blood pressure's coming back up. 95 over 65, and stats are climbing as well.

00:52 She's stabilizing.

00:53 Good. Let's draw a culture, start her on vanc, and let's get an A-line set up.

00:57 Let's get a blood gas too.

00:58 Hey, just when she's lucid, you were right.

01:01 She's gonna need thrombectomy.

01:03 Here.

01:12 What's this?

01:13 A little light reading our critical care committee just drafted.

01:16 "Revised postoperative muscle relaxant reversal agent protocol."

01:20 I heard getting its somodex pulled was your little crusade.

01:24 Thought you might be eager to learn about its replacement.

01:27 The new recommended reversal agent is Gammaverse.

01:30 Is there a problem?

01:31 No, except it's ten times the cost of somodex,

01:34 which gets pushed onto the patients when their insurance won't cover it.

01:38 There has to be cheaper therapeutic alternative options.

01:42 No, no, no. Not according to the committee.

01:44 So next time you think about sounding the alarm off limited data, think twice.

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