Chicago Med (TV Series)

Born This Way (2018)

Norma Kuhling: Ava Bekker

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• Connor Rhodes : [about a juvenile transplant patient]  We have to put him on ECMO.

  Ava Bekker : What?

  Connor Rhodes : He's satting in the 80s and wearing down. His respiratory muscles are going to give out.

  Ava Bekker : But ECMO could introduce an infection. It's a partial contraindication of surgery.

  Connor Rhodes : And Kansas is a two-hour flight. We have to keep him oxygenated 'till the lungs get here.

  Ava Bekker : Those lungs only last four hours. If anything goes wrong before they get here, and he's stuck on ECMO, we may not be able to get him off. He could die.

  Connor Rhodes : Then we make sure that nothing goes wrong.

• Ava Bekker : A transfusion is going to increase his antibody county. His PRA's already at 50. If it hits 80, we can't use those lungs.

  Connor Rhodes : You think I don't know that? We don't have a choice.

  Ava Bekker : We wouldn't be in this situation if you hadn't insisted on ECMO in the first place.

  Connor Rhodes : You keep pointing out problems. What I need are solutions, so if you don't have any, just... just get out of my way, okay?