Goonhub
06-08-2015, 06:06 AM
When you work in medbay, Cardiac arrest is basically a death sentence. From what I can glean, if the way the damage works, if you get lucky and shock them out of arrest, theres a very high chance that they'll slip right back into it again from the damage they're taking from being in crit. And you can't stop defibbing them because they keep arresting again and you can''t fix the damage that is making them arrest because you are constantly defibbing.
So I suggest a life support machine, it could be tacked onto the same mechanics that power the iv bags. An entity that has to be attached to the patient, and remain adjacent to them to work. but while attached that person cannot arrest. It won't stop cardiac failure, and it wont work if a patient is already in arrest. But it offers a more reasonable approach to how you save peoples lives. As opposed to Fix everything now or he'll die you can focus on getting the patient stable then bringing him back up to full health.
Also when shit really hits the fan and patients start to turn up in waves from the latest explosion, it allows you to practise a little triage allowing you to juggle emergencies and make some pretty cool snap decisions about priority patients and shit. It shouldn't be an easy hook up "no dying machine" but just an additional tool to hold onto a patient while you run around the medbay screaming.
So I suggest a life support machine, it could be tacked onto the same mechanics that power the iv bags. An entity that has to be attached to the patient, and remain adjacent to them to work. but while attached that person cannot arrest. It won't stop cardiac failure, and it wont work if a patient is already in arrest. But it offers a more reasonable approach to how you save peoples lives. As opposed to Fix everything now or he'll die you can focus on getting the patient stable then bringing him back up to full health.
Also when shit really hits the fan and patients start to turn up in waves from the latest explosion, it allows you to practise a little triage allowing you to juggle emergencies and make some pretty cool snap decisions about priority patients and shit. It shouldn't be an easy hook up "no dying machine" but just an additional tool to hold onto a patient while you run around the medbay screaming.