Dr. Lewis, Dr. Chen and Malik rush into the trauma room and start hooking Carter up to the various machines and begin checking him over for any injuries. Susan starts telling Malik the tests to oder for Carter, Dr. Chen is checking his eyes and the left side of the body.
Susan: "Get an ultrasound machine to check for internal bleeding…" "I need CT scan, CBC, Chem7, Tox screen, blood and urine cultures, UA; BAL, ABG; lytes; C-Spine, MRI, portable x-ray, head and abdominal CT; and a trauma panel, STAT"
Susan starts examining Carter's right side of his body, then looks up to Malik and says.
Susan: "While he's stable, page Corday and Benton"
Deb: "Do you think he needs surgery?" she asks.
Susan: "I don't know for sure, but I want them down here either way to tell them what happened" "If they find out about Carter from someone else then they'll be worried, and I would prefer that we tell them what happened to him concerning the situation."
Kerry, Abby and Luka all rush in, but don't notice the unconscious patient laying on the gurney who is their dear friend John Carter.
Peter Benton and Elizabeth Corday rush into the room right behind them.
Benton: "What do you got?"
Susan: "Carter" she states in an uneasy voice to Peter and not looking directly at him for a minute.
Benton: "Excuse me?" Peter his mind now in over drive thinking about Carter being hurt again, he starts firing off all kinds of questions and now waiting for any of them to be answered.
Benton: " What's the extent of the injuries?" "Any blood lose?" "Any..."
Corday: "Peter, slow down and let them answer!"
Corday: "And try to calm down just a little" she says seeing him getting really frustrated with Susan, Deb and everyone else in the room who are not answering his demanding questions.
Susan: "No, I don't think its like that" she says, in reference to the attack that happened to her friend when she wasn't there to help him, as she is thinking her regretful thoughts that began to plague her mind, everyone else in the room especially Luka, Kerry, Abby, Elizabeth and Peter were also all thinking back to that horrible night in February on Valentine's Day exactly 3 years ago when Carter came close to losing his life, and almost his kidney, even his ability to ever walk again by the actions of him being brutally stabbed on what should have been a caring holiday, but instead it turned into a deadly nightmare. The nightmare got even worse when he wasn't even found until later on the next day laying on the floor in deep unconsciousness, still bleeding and having been left for dead.
The doctor's get his vitals stable for the time being. Then they all look at each other, thinking that they have to figure out what is wrong with their friend before something else happens to him.
Carter is laying on the gurney in a sleeping unconscious state, waiting for him to awake. Let's all go out to the hall and talk things over. They all start to walk away to leave the room
Luka: "I'll stay with him"
Susan: "Okay, we'll be right outside the door" Luka nods that he understands and begins looking over the machine's and at his friend's body motionless lying in front of him.
Carter is stable so Susan, Deb, Kerry, Elizabeth, and Peter go out to the hall to talk about Carter's condition.