An opera singer has an accident involving his throat and a broken sheet of plate glass; a 300-pound woman has a psychotic episode in the ER, during which she tears off her clothes and dances; a child has two batteries wedged up his nose that are removed using a magnet.
An anesthesiologist has a heart attack; a pregnant woman has a cerebral aneurysm; doctors are sprayed with blood from a man who was stabbed in the heart; a prostitute's unusual hiding place for money is found.
A sheriff is injured in a shootout; two hit men burned while disposing of a body are treated and arrested; a drug dealer's stash is discovered in his rectum.
A 6-year-old boy who punctured his skull with a pitchfork is rushed into surgery; a woman refuses treatment by a black doctor.
Treating a 21-year-old man who incurs massive internal injuries in a motorcycle accident; four patients seriously injured in a car accident; and a teenage boy who needs a blood transfusion.
A 33-year-old is declared brain-dead from a gunshot wound, and the victim's wife agrees to keep her husband on life support until his organs can be harvested and donated.
The ER receives a man whose small intestines have burst from the site of an earlier operation, a man who was shot in the chest while hunting and a man who crashed his car into the hospital.
An X-ray reveals a five-inch piece of glass lodged in a man's brain.
A snakebite victim is brought in, and the doctor must identify the snake involved to administer the correct anti-venom.
The doctors treat two patients for internal bleeding, one man who passes out after drinking water, and a man who cut off his own hand on purpose because it was infected with tendinitis.
While working on an art project, an amateur artist accidentally cuts off his hand.
A chronically ill 6-year-old boy is brought to the ER. The doctor thinks the boy's being poisoned by his mother.
The doctors treat gunshot wounds and deal with finger reattachment and possible burglars.
A patient who was completely unconscious suddenly awakens; a family of three has a mysterious condition; a man walks into the ER with a knife wound and refuses help.
One patient arrives with a tree branch stuck through his neck while doctors are treating ten teens that have been critically injured.
Paramedics treat a teen who is unresponsive after a car accident and discover she's pregnant; a patient arrives with an axe in his head.
A husband walks into the E.R. and miraculously stabilizes his wife's condition by touching her forehead; a homeless woman complaining of stomach pains turns out to be pregnant.
A 3-month-old is rushed to the ER because he keeps losing consciousness; a patient complains of stomach pains and the staff is convinced the patient is a man in drag, but the patient turns out to be pregnant.
A car crash results in a fence pole penetrating the chest of the driver and going through the seat into a passenger's thigh.
An accident victim's arm is severed, but doctors are more alarmed by the damage to his liver and spleen.
A man's religion prohibits him from getting treatment for a rattlesnake bite, so ER doctors struggle to find a way to help him.
A young girl comes to the ER paralyzed from the waist down, after she was there a week earlier and the doctors sent her home.
A stabbing victim undergoes a risky chest incision; a car accident brings a pet iguana into the ER.
Cases include a man in anaphylactic shock, a tough guy fearful of getting an injection, a man who stabbed himself with a sword and a woman who wants an exorcism.
The ER receives a soldier with a stab wound, a young man bleeding from his ears and a young woman who overdosed on diet pills.
An inmate has a 108-degree fever; doctors treat a woman for stomach pains and discover she has been eating toilet paper.
A man calling himself the king of the gypsies arrives with a group of followers who refuse to leave his side. Meanwhile, a retired admiral's weakening condition stumps the doctors.
Plane-crash victims attract reporters to a small community ER, and a doctor must decide whether to bore holes in a teen with head trauma to relieve pressure or wait to get him more help.
A woman on the way to her own wedding has a car accident and is sent to the ER with severe facial injuries. Meanwhile, a prisoner comes to the ER, but the doctors are wary of him.
A drunken cowboy ends up in the ER while a patient with a gunshot wound in the thigh complains of chest pains.
Doctors race to save a boy with a severe head injury while cops bring in a suspected bank robber and another patient complains of chest pains.
Strange markings are found on a multiple-personality-disorder patient, and a man arrives with a 16-inch bar stuck in his neck.
Cases include a young boy injured by a commuter train and a woman who fell into an icy river and may have spinal injuries.
A mountain-lion-attack victim arrives with some of the worst injuries the doctors have ever seen.
A robbery victim's gunshot wound is more serious than originally thought.
Dr. Keller thinks a boy struck by a baseball bat has a concussion, but a CT scan reveals massive brain bleeding, and he suffers kidney failure.
Doctors try an untested treatment to save an 11-year-old with strep pneumonia, a disease that kills nearly all its victims.
A tornado slams a fence picket into a woman's head.
A 7-year-old boy undergoes surgery to reattach his left arm after it was severed in a truck accident.
A teen injured in a football game needs emergency surgery to repair his liver.
A skier hits a tree and has another problem in addition to his injuries: his blood will not clot. His situation worsens when the power goes out at the hospital.
An accident victim's arm is severed, but doctors are more alarmed by the damage to his liver and spleen.
Doctors work on a young boy who was crushed under a large stack of drywall. The blood supply to his vital organs was cut off, and there is a good possibility for multiple organ failures.
A gunman opens fire in a large metropolitan hospital's emergency room and takes hostages.
A boy is seriously injured in an accident after being ejected from the car because his seat belt did not fit.
A policeman is seriously injured in a roadside accident and doctors battle to save his damaged legs.
A snakebite expert must treat his own 2-year old son, who was bitten by a rattlesnake.
The ER's medical director has a ruptured brain aneurysm, forcing a doctor into the stressful position of operating on a colleague.
A mugging victim with two bullet wounds to the head slips into a coma and needs an emergency craniotomy.
A baby suddenly develops an oxygen deficiency and the infant's blood turns brown, so doctors race to pinpoint the cause.
A construction worker's skull has a 4-pound hook embedded in it and a trauma surgeon struggles to extract it without killing him.
A pregnant woman's leg pain turns out to be flesh-eating virus, threatening life and limb. A Desert Storm war veteran swallows razor blades on a dare, and a bride-to-be spends her wedding day in the ER after collapsing at the altar.
A grown man screams incessantly for no reason, a young mother is alert but ice cold and a young boy seems to have overdosed on drugs but denies it. All these cases are medical mysteries, requiring "out of the box", life-saving solutions.
A college student collapses in the ER, and doctors do hours of CPR, hoping she'll revive. A man with a 5-hour erection gets caught between his wife and his mistress, and a 70-year-old grandmother wakes up after being pronounced dead.
A young nurse collapses in the ER, and her co-workers must restart her heart. A young father brings his baby into the hospital convinced there are maggots in her hands. A patient is writhing in pain, because she says her liver is cursed.
An unconscious woman is bleeding internally. Doctors must quickly assess the problem, and convince a reluctant surgeon to take the case. A man with a 4-day erection needs extraordinary help. A woman arrives in the ER with a knife in her chest.
A woman is dragged out of a house fire and has a heart attack in the ER. A schizophrenic patient believes he has someone else's face, and an untrained medical student is mistaken for a doctor and must deliver a baby.
An ER nurse brings her delirious husband to the ER, then discovers a strange clue, his breath smells like mothballs. A young mother delivers her baby, then goes into life-threatening convulsions. Identical twin doctors create confusion in the ER.
A doctor opens a nurse's chest, and takes her heart in his hand, in a desperate effort to save her life. Swords, severed limbs and suspicious stories lead to confusion in the ER and things go totally nuts at the hospital during a Greek Festival.
A conscious man is wheeled into the ER with a two-inch pipe through his head. A young bride is experiencing unstoppable bleeding and her groom is clueless. Two prisoners from rival gangs are suspiciously in the ER at the same time.
A new doctor must stand up to a superior who wants to send his wife into surgery with undiagnosed rectal bleeding. A man comes into the ER with a surprising body part stuck inside a camping stove. And a six-year-old boy has a rare massive stroke.
A dialysis patient is bleeding and doctors can't get it to stop. A naked man falls into a cactus and is covered head to toe in needles. A patient brings radioactive rocks to the hospital causing chaos in the ER.
A stabbing victim's heart has a hole in it and must be pumped by hand to keep him alive. A woman believes that she is possessed by demons. A man with an unusual predicament offers to pay cash to keep his condition off of his medical record.
A mysterious white dog wanders the hospital halls on Halloween. A neurologist encounters an unconscious motorcyclist on the side of the road. A treatment of a young boy's broken leg turns into an investigation that might reveal child abuse.
While a shooting victim is brought to the hospital, a Rottweiler gets loose in the ER. A young mother's asthma attack turns quickly into a deadly heart failure. A young man comes into the ER comatose, covered with a mysterious rash.
A stroke patient watches speechless and horrified as his wife and two girlfriends fight over him. Army doctors in Iraq try to save the lives of soldiers who lost limbs in an IED explosion. A child's play bite turns deadly for a recent transplant patient..
A doctor struggles with the decision to revive an older patient after prolonged CPR. Two nurses encounter a stabbing victim on the street and try to save him. A doctor on a cruise ship finds that her dream job has become a nightmare.
An entire fraternity is plagued with blue urine; a pregnant woman may lose her baby to a spider bite; and a comatose patient turns out to be a drug runner who swallowed heroin.
A patient can't remember the past 20 years; after reviving his cardiac arrest victim, a doctor packs him in ice; an asthma patient runs away, but is soon brought back... in handcuffs!
A bridesmaid drinks herself into a dangerous coma; a man's eyeball pops out of his head; a premature infant is abandoned in a hospital and must quickly be revived in the ER.
A pregnant woman delivers in the front seat of her car; a bride stops her wedding because she feels possessed by creatures crawling in her head; an ER physician yells at her comatose heart attack patient, trying to get him to fight for his own life.
A wheezing woman comes to the ER with a difficult-to-diagnose problem and a very angry husband; a grown man suddenly begins acting like a child; a birthday party goes bad as the whole family comes to the ER deathly ill.
A man is impaled through the skull with a crowbar; a woman's cough turns out to be an internal worm infection; a bride is in pain and refuses to take off her wedding dress, even though she needs treatment for a kidney stone.
A man dressed as Santa is near death; a man swallows something strange at a party; a woman dressed as an elf passes out; a blue leg.
A patient with a severe headache is seizing, then bruises erupt on her legs and her doctor has no idea why. A naked woman is behaving so oddly that her doctor thinks she's on drugs. A wrestler has been vomiting for days- and the cause is a shock!
A teen is bleeding internally from an ectopic pregnancy, but denies ever having sex, so her doctor must find a clever way to treat her. A young mother mysteriously goes in and out of flatline. A patient is healthy, but refuses to leave the ER.
A man crashes his car into a cow and comes to the ER covered in manure; a woman has a stiletto heel jammed into her cheek; a patient says she's dying of a broken heart; a doctor is on probation when his patient dies... or does she?
A disoriented young woman in a bunny costume checks into the ER; a physician treats a severed thumb, but can't treat a cut on her own boyfriend's hand; a young man has lost feeling in his legs.. or has he?
A deranged cowboy is drenched in sweat, saliva, and urine, and no one knows why; a metal rod is impaled into the side of a young woman's head; two teenage girls are dangerously short of breath - what have they been up to?
A belly dancer collapses while working at a hooka bar; an ER doctor must quickly learn a new skill to mend an elderly patient and bring his bickering family together; a six year old girl is having seizures but what's really causing her convulsions?
A storm strands a critical patient in the ER but doctors can't perform the life-saving surgery he needs; two ladies ready to hit the town, end up breathless in the ER instead; a bewildered man is brought to the ER by the sheriff after reporting a theft.
A psychiatric patient has an insatiable craving for chocolate pudding and doctors soon find out why; a patient in severe anaphylactic shock is allergic to something in the ER; a man with a bizarrely swollen face must be convinced to stay for treatment.
A snake bite victim may die in the ER when life-saving anti-venom isn't available; a mother is near death after having a C-section and doctors are torn over treatment options; diagnosing a masturbating patient puts a young doctor's skills to the test.
A woman is stuck in a toilet bowl for over 18 hours and the medical team can't free her; a man's leg is mangled by a stump grinder but that's the least of his troubles; doctors make a shocking discovery when a nurse collapses while working his shift.
A pregnant ER doctor is endangered by a violent patient who can't be sedated; an unexplained headache turns life threatening for a mom during a family vacation; a man with a fence post through his torso jumps the triage line on a busy night in the ER.
An ER doctor must determine if a convicted murderer is faking paralysis as part of a prison escape plan; a father is dying after being stabbed protecting his son; a college cheerleader is in cardiac arrest after a night out with her boyfriend.
A man smashed by a dumpster clings to life; an elderly nun and a drunken prostitute are in the ER at the same time; a woman suffering an apparent stroke may have a deadly rare virus but her medical intern son doesn't agree with the doctor's suspicions.
An off-duty ER physician diagnoses his own critical illness while en route to the hospital; a visiting ER doctor is threatened while working at a remote hospital; a patient with ominous symptoms returns to the ER multiple times after a scuba diving trip.
A young woman is rushed to the ER after being bitten in the face by a dog; an ER doctor has to overcome his fears when he's confronted with an unusual series of patients; an intoxicated woman injured in a fall unexpectedly goes into cardiac arrest.
Doctors struggle to save a young man brought to the ER frozen and pulse-less; a man gets deathly ill while attending his own anniversary party; an embarrassing hidden secret prohibits a heart attack patient from being rushed to the OR for surgery.
A mountain biker has multiple injuries and her boyfriend has multiple fainting spells; a man's legs are severed when he's run over by a train; a drunken bachelor helps reveal the secret of a mystery nurse that has been working in the ER.
An alligator snapping turtle is clamped to a man's neck and won't let go; an ER physician races against an impending hurricane to clear the ER of patients before it hits; and a tree trimmer is 20 feet above ground when he is impaled by his chainsaw.
Two skydivers, impaled by the same fence post, are rushed to the ER; multiple patrons from a dance club suddenly stop breathing and Dr. Jasper must determine the cause; and a bride-to-be may miss her wedding after her finger gets stuck in a make-up jar.
A party attendee lands in the ER after suddenly becoming paralyzed; a doctor without the right equipment must improvise to save a boy that was crushed by an ATV; Dr. Jasper accidentally injects herself with epinephrine and has to work through the rush.
A hospital worker feels like she's dying, but doctors can find nothing wrong; a physician's young son is a patient in her own ER, demanding her attention while she's trying to treat others; a woman's hobby of wild mushroom picking sends her to the ER.
A man is rushed to the ER, apparently clawed by a tiger, but he won't reveal the real source of his injuries; a patient says he's been shot in the head, but the bullet is nowhere to be found; a woman is brain dead, but one doctor thinks she can be saved.
A man arrives in the ER with blue skin and the doctor has no idea what's causing it; a teenage girl has abdominal pains that doctors have been unable to diagnose for years; and a doctor struggles to save the life of the only survivor of a plane crash.
The real reason behind a teenager's bulging tummy and stomach pains shocks nurses, doctors, and even her meddling Mom; a delirious man yelling for his "car", reveals clues about his own attempted murder; and a college coed mysteriously stops breathing.
A man comes to the ER thinking he's constipated, but his condition is life-threatening, a doctor treating a young woman in cardiac arrest discovers she's treating two patients in one; and a patient's family is clueless and a doctor could use some help.
A man falls off a roof and is impaled by a shovel; a police officer has a heart attack; and a student has trouble breathing.
A resort doctor must treat a man critically injured by a boat propeller; a discharged patient sets off a deadly chain of events by getting a ride from his designated driver; the ER comes to a standstill when the computers and the head nurse are down.
Two gunshot victims have a surprising connection; an unidentified jogger goes into a coma and the ER staff must become detectives to find the woman's family.
A college student is dropped off at the ER with her face covered in a plaster mask; doctors are baffled when a stroke patient's heart keeps stopping and restarting without intervention; two teens arrive separately with bizarre symptoms that are similar.
An injured ER doctor puts on a show to stop a patient's violent outbursts; a man's heart fails as his daughter and girlfriend fight; on Christmas Eve, the family of a patient with severe burns prays for a miracle.
A geriatric playboy comes into the ER with a minor injury that quickly turns deadly; a health fanatic's juice diet leaves him in a comatose state; doctors juggling multiple critical patients nearly misdiagnose one who has suddenly deteriorated.
An ER doctor gets his patient drunk to save his life; doctors are concerned when a patient is stiff after a fall and another is tasered by police in the ER; a boy is impaled in the neck by a bottle rocket.
An unresponsive golfer needs immediate life-saving surgery but the surgeon is stalling; 3 near-naked adults wreak havoc in the ER; a marathon runner pushes his limits way too far; and a patient accidentally shot by his brother, takes a turn for the worst.
Two patients arrive at the ER with bizarre fishing injuries; a martial arts instructor suffers abdominal pains that quickly turn into a deadly condition; when teenage victims of a car crash fill his small ER, a doctor must make critical decisions.
A newlywed's hand gets stuck in a kitchen appliance and a college student is tormented by an injury down under; a heavy drinker is now sober and experiencing life-threatening complications; and a woman appears to only have blood flow to half of her brain.
A college student's head is impaled by a trophy deer's antlers; a car crash victim leads the doctor to believe her baby may still be at the accident scene; a nurse's ex-boyfriend brings his new girlfriend to the ER and the nurse must help save her life.
Strange-but-true spooky cases that leave doctors proclaiming It must be a full moon.
A woman risks losing her finger after trying on an ill-fitting engagement ring; a body builder can't breathe and doctors are shocked to discover why; a doctor takes a break outside and is nearly struck by a car driven by her next patient.
A pianist's finger is accidentally sawed off and missing until his wife and dog come to the ER; a man's pacemaker is killing him, yet keeping him alive; and after his bachelor party, a nurse's fiancé is behaving bizarrely and needs urgent medical care.
A man injured in a medieval role-playing battle has a sword impaled in his head; a critically ill patient is so afraid of germs he won't allow doctors to treat him; two patients with the same life-threatening symptoms arrive separately from a fashion show.
A woman's face-lift goes terribly wrong; a hospital chaplain's sudden personality change baffles the ER staff; a pregnant woman's life-threatening symptoms need urgent treatment but the doctor must convince others of the diagnosis he saw in her eyes.
A man's face and body suddenly double in size; an ER physician races to determine why a young woman is burning up from the inside out after a day at the beach; a grumpy old man nearly dies before revealing an emotional secret.
A doctor treats three gunshot victims who claim be innocent bystanders but the police want to know who shot who; on his first day on the job, a doctor must perform emergency brain surgery in the ER; a young bride-to-be suddenly slips into a diabetic coma.
A woman stops eating because she believes she is dead; a runner goes blind in one eye during a marathon and takes a detour to the ER; doctors are baffled by an ER tech's stroke-like symptoms, until someone he loves also becomes ill.
A pregnant woman is shot in the abdomen but refuses some testing and treatment jeopardizing her life and the baby's; a doctor is the victim of a car burglary and thinks her patient may be the culprit; a storm is preventing a patient's life-saving surgery.
A pregnant woman's leg pain turns out to be flesh-eating virus, threatening life and limb; a Desert Storm war veteran swallows razor blades on a dare; a bride-to-be spends her wedding day in the ER after collapsing at the altar.
Panicked moms-to-be and their anxious partners delivering far outside of their birth plans.
Doctors faced with extraordinary challenges and young lives hanging in the balance.
A woman believes her neighbors want to kill her; a man is near death after an arrow pierces his chest; two women with swollen abdomens refuse to explain the cause of their pain.
A man with a slashed wrist has a startling secret; a woman gives birth unexpectedly, shocking the ER staff; a surgeon requires urgent treatment after falling off a bed while trying to help his patient.
An ER doctor's friend arrives at the hospital combative and out of control; a cyclist's throat is torn open when a driver opens a car door in her path; a nursing student is found passed out on the hospital floor.
A man is impaled in his abdomen by a stiletto heel; a seemingly healthy outdoorsman has a series of seizures that baffle his doctors; two patients make their doctor suspicious when they both complain about identical headaches that started during sex.
A young pregnant woman in labor begs the ER doctor to keep her pregnancy a secret from her father; twins share confusing symptoms; a man with no pulse or blood pressure is still alive and breathing.
A young boy at a sleepover party mysteriously loses control over his arms and legs; a woman is shot in the leg at her own bachelorette party; bubbles in a woman's arteries are causing a stroke.
A patient suddenly starts seizing; an ER physician is at a restaurant when she is thrown into an emergency situation to save a child; a pregnant woman's heart is racing.
A young girl is mysteriously paralyzed from the waist down; a young man complains of a splitting headache; a bride-to-be has appendicitis on her wedding day.
Doctors use a robot to treat a seizing 7-year-old boy; a chef's tongue is swelling; a woman who crashed her car insists her injured dog be treated first.
A circus sword-swallower suffers from a persistent case of hiccups; a mother and daughter mysteriously collapse in the ER; a woman loses control of her legs at her daughter's graduation.
A patient is brought to the ER with a live shark clamped onto his thigh, and he wants to save the shark! Complications arise for a woman with a life-threatening condition, and the mysterious condition that caused a man to pass out.
Two separate car crash victims are brought to the ER in their underwear; a woman is acting delusional and refuses to allows the ER staff to touch her; and a doctor struggles to diagnose a dehydrated and nauseous 10-year-old.
A fishing lure embedded in a man's face turns out to be the least of his problems; a pair of unconscious teenagers get brought to the ER, where dramatic family secrets come out; an ER technician collapses and refuses traditional medical treatment.
Police officers bring in a criminal that is comatose; a man found passed out in the snow with no jacket or shoes arrives in the ER and a doctor is faced with a family emergency on her day-off.
An urgent care physician must think outside the box to care for two emergencies at once; a woman with abdominal pain receives an unexpected diagnosis; a yoga instructor has a dangerously high temperature for no obvious reason.
A boa constrictor has wrapped around a man's arm and won't let go; a young woman has a severe laceration, but doctors begin to suspect there may be more to her case than the injury; a young man goes into anaphylactic shock after a dinner out.
A patient appears to be hallucinating and sends ER staff on a wild goose chase; a new nurse makes a shocking mistake; doctors try to help a former EMT who was found lethargic and slurring his words.
Celebrations morph into medical mania after their special occasions land them in the ER.
A behind-the-scenes look at activity in a hospital emergency room.
A night on the town quickly turns into a fiasco in the ER.
A first hand look at individuals who didn't expect to become human shish kabobs.
Pregnant women and their partners undergo unusual birth procedures in extraordinary circumstances.
Infants' visits to the ER are featured.
This special features 10 of the craziest stories from the first 100 episodes of Untold Stories. Doctors never know what's coming through the ER doors, and in these cases they must first get over their own shock before they can start saving lives.
