Tour - Infirmary
Summary
2 biobeds · Medical replicator · Trauma supplies · Not surgical
Additional Information
| Description | INFIRMARY — COMPARTMENT DETAIL Single room, compact. Two biobeds against the port bulkhead, a medical replicator on the forward wall, the CMO's workstation, and pharmaceutical storage on the starboard side. No surgical bay — the room is too small, and the mission profile doesn't call for one. What it calls for is keeping people alive until they can get to a facility that has one. CAPABILITY WHAT IT CAN DO Trauma stabilization — blunt force, plasma burns, shrapnel, vacuum exposure, boarding injuries. The biobeds run full diagnostic suites and can sustain a patient on life support for extended transit. The medical replicator handles pharmaceuticals, wound sealant, blood replacement compounds, and limited implant materials for emergency field repairs. WHAT IT CANNOT DO Surgery. If someone needs to be opened up, the infirmary is not where that happens. The CMO knows the nearest facilities with surgical capability on the DMZ border. The list is shorter than anyone would like, and two of the entries are facilities the CDF is not supposed to know exist. The CMO knows them anyway. This has never been formally acknowledged. PHARMACEUTICAL DISPENSARY Locked behind the CMO's workstation — biometric, CMO only under standard protocol, CO emergency override. Stocks analgesics, anticoagulants, stimulants, broad-spectrum antimicrobials, and sedatives. A small supply of compounds appears on the manifest under their chemical names rather than their common ones. The CMO has declined to elaborate on the distinction when asked. The CO has not pressed the point. PERSONNEL Dedicated CMO — Starfleet-trained or trained through a colonial medical program using Starfleet curricula. Equipment is standard enough that any trained medic can work the space without reorientation. ALL SECURITY PERSONNEL — FIELD TRIAGE CERTIFIED In a mass casualty situation, the infirmary doubles its effective throughput: the CMO on the biobeds, security personnel doing triage and stabilization wherever the casualties are. Not elegant. Works. WHEN CRIS IS EMBARKED — CMO / COMBAT MEDIC DYNAMIC The CRIS combat medic is a highly capable field operator — trained for trauma stabilization, emergency triage, and keeping personnel functional in conditions the infirmary was not designed for. In the cargo bay, in a corridor, in a compromised environment with no equipment — the medic is the right person. In the infirmary, with biobeds, a full diagnostic suite, and a pharmaceutical dispensary, the CMO is the right person. The medic knows it. When a CRIS operator requires medical attention, the medic renders initial field care and transfers to the CMO — not because protocol requires it, but because both parties understand who has the deeper clinical foundation. The CMO runs the infirmary. The medic supports. This has never needed to be said aloud. It has also never been tested in a situation serious enough to produce real pressure on the arrangement. |