Medical Tips and Tricks

[Eenkogneeto]

I've seen this before elsewhere, But I remember it being outdated. So, A new thread to detail all the new tips and tricks for medical personnel of every sort.
I'll start with one very simple and incredibly helpful thing: Using the copious amounts of blue medkits in lockers for extra storage. Empty them out and fill them with trauma/burn kits, Or syringe cases full of injectors, or bottles of medicine. So on and so forth. This is useful for medics and doctors alike.

[Jay Burns]

Helpful Tip for FOB doctors, pack all your surgical tools in an empty first aid kit, makes it easier to carry and lessens the risk of losing some valuable equipment.

Don't use the hemostat during broken bone surgeries, it is not needed.

lastly, use invapropoline, it is severely underrated, it can be the difference between getting a marine to the sully, or them dying on the way.

[Biolock]

Don't bother trying to use defibs on someone who died with internal bleeding, it will never work. Additionally, you can not use quick clot to fix internal bleeding on someone who's already dead.

[Eenkogneeto]

If you make medical smoke using a stasis beaker, it will always create more smoke in their body (Clearing all reagents) Meaning it cant OD. This also works to clear an OD from someones system (5u water 5u potas works best but you can do smoke too)
Healsmoke Beaker that I make is generally 10 Phos 10 Potas 10 Sugar 10 Tricord 3 QC 3 Dex+ 5 Bicard 3 Pari 3 Kelo 3 Derm, You get 6 uses per beaker and have to draw twice but it wont OD them generally.
Using bigger beakers in cryo means they get even more chems in them, a bluespace beaker topped off can be used to instantly stuff people full of just short of OD levels of every beneficial chem.

[InterroLouis]

Something I've been doing lately is cooking up a bunch of 60u bottles of various healing chemicals to put in my belt. I'll go about in medbay stabilizing all the critical patients that the medics bring in, because they will bring in critical patients. I'll see marines lying there with 150 oxyloss and about to die...which is where the chem belt comes in. 5u each of dex plus, bicaridine, and peridaxon, and you have a stable patient.

[Jroinc1]

Do I need to copy my medical post OF DOOM into this thread too?

[Jroinc1]

Don't bother trying to use defibs on someone who died with internal bleeding, it will never work. Additionally, you can not use quick clot to fix internal bleeding on someone who's already dead.

Can't you quick-clot them, THEN defib? The chems'll stay in and heal him the instant he pops to life, dex+ him, feed dexalin, hook him up to an IV, and start treating him.
Would THAT work?

[EMT_321]

Consolidating 6 bicaridine/Kelotane autoinjectors into emptied (and labeled) hyposprays within your backpack, plus another one with tricord (and some bottles in a syringe kit reserved to refill that) will save you tons of space in your CLB, and be great first-line treatments for critical people when you are swarmed.

[Biolock]

Can't you quick-clot them, THEN defib? The chems'll stay in and heal him the instant he pops to life, dex+ him, feed dexalin, hook him up to an IV, and start treating him.
Would THAT work?

You can not quickclot a dead person, it won't fix their internal bleeding.

[Jroinc1]

You can not quickclot a dead person, it won't fix their internal bleeding.

You TOTALLY can hit them with an autoinjector, adding 3u quick-clot to them.
But dead people don't process chems... they just stay in the body UNCHANGED.
And if you defib him, and he comes back to life, then the IB will heal instantly from the 3u of quick-clot ALREADY in his system.

[Biolock]

You TOTALLY can hit them with an autoinjector, adding 3u quick-clot to them.
But dead people don't process chems... they just stay in the body UNCHANGED.
And if you defib him, and he comes back to life, then the IB will heal instantly from the 3u of quick-clot ALREADY in his system.

If someone dies with internal bleeding, they can not be resuscitated. I've tested it countless times. I'll probably suggest it be amended soon, as I think it should be. Similarly to how you can't rejuve someone with high toxin damage, internal bleeding works the same way.

[Jroinc1]

If someone dies with internal bleeding, they can not be resuscitated. I've tested it countless times. I'll probably suggest it be amended soon, as I think it should be. Similarly to how you can't rejuve someone with high toxin damage, internal bleeding works the same way.

Very well, I defer to your knowledge, as I dislike using the defibrillator.

[Supermichael777]

So for chest and skull broken bones you need a retractor in your off hand for it to work. I have had patients whose rib cages have collapsed 20 times before I remembered.

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