Goonhub
04-28-2015, 04:40 AM
At the moment medical sleepers inject saline to keep patients stabilized. While saline does work to keep a patient out of shock, if they've already progressed into cardiac failure/arrest it's not going to do much stabilizing at all. It's usually much easier to just drag the patient into medbay proper for the real meds like atropine and epinephrine. So it's no surprise nobody actually uses sleepers.
This is a shame, since sleepers do theoretically provide a useful service: buying the doctor some time. Unfortunately all they're really useful for is healing up minor brute/burn damage due to the unlimited saline supply. To remedy this, I suggest sleepers be given epinephrine and maybe atropine as optional injections along with saline.
This is a shame, since sleepers do theoretically provide a useful service: buying the doctor some time. Unfortunately all they're really useful for is healing up minor brute/burn damage due to the unlimited saline supply. To remedy this, I suggest sleepers be given epinephrine and maybe atropine as optional injections along with saline.