Medical Preparations

Posted on 20 Oct 2021 @ 3:12pm by Lieutenant JG Jane Sinclair MD, DVM
Edited on on 01 Nov 2021 @ 10:52pm

536 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: S03 Ep 04 Captive State Part 1 (Incidental)
Location: Medical Storage Bay
Timeline: Shortly before away team departure; After “Setting Out”

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Around the corner from the sickbay complex was the small storage bay devoted to medical supplies. It was not a large room, as most larger pieces of equipment were stored in larger, primary cargo bays and most pharmaceuticals were replicated on the fly. The small room mostly stored emergency supplies; those items that might take time to assemble or replicate, and were not needed for day-to-day work, but might be needed very quickly in case of a crisis.

Dr. Jane Sinclair stood in front of a work bench in the storage room and assembled her travel kit.

On one of the storage racks were a dozen pre-made medkits, ready for deployment on a moment's notice. But Jane preferred to take the time to go through it herself. On the one hand, it would need to carry everything she might need. On the other, she had to carry it herself through unknown terrain, for who knew how long.

So she disassembled the kit and laid out its contents, as well as a few other items found on storage room shelves, on the work bench. For a moment she felt like one of the Marines taking apart their rifle, and fought the urge to close her eyes and put it back together through muscle memory.

One at a time, she put the items she wanted back in the kit bag.

Medical tricorder, for scanning the patient.

Dermal regenerator, for closing broken skin.

Osteoregenerator and Protoplaser, for healing broken bones and stabilizing most internal injuries, respectively. These had been both in a generic "battlefield trauma kit" that was in most emergency medkits, but she left out the unnecessary packaging, as well as the general cellular regenerator. Weight matters, and any wound requiring that for treatment could wait until they were back on the Tomcat.

A small cortical stimulator to keep the brain alive in case of nervous system collapse.

Laser scalpel, because in an absolute emergency she might need to conduct field surgery.

Finally, a hypospray preloaded with small quantities of numerous medications, including triox for blood oxygenation, lectrazine for cardiovascular stability, tricordrazine for resuscitation, metorapan for pain, and cephalothin to fight infection.

The kit was full. Jane closed it and slung it over her shoulder. It was fine. Slightly heavier than normal, given a few added items, but it was tolerable. Having excluded a few unnecessary things helped keep the weight down. She could handle it.

She was already in the uniform she would be wearing while on the ground. She had her medkit and everything else she might need for the SAR mission. All she had left to do was stop by the armoury for a sidearm and report to the shuttlebay.

This was potentially the last moment of solitude she would have for the next several hours, if not days. So she took two minutes in the quiet, empty storage room to just be alone. She centred herself and practised her breathing.

Finally, she took a hair elastic from her uniform pocket, but her hair behind her in a pony tail, and left, heading for her first away mission aboard USS Tomcat.

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Lieutenant JG Jane Sinclair
Deputy Chief Medical Officer

 

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