Medicine

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Probably a lot that can go here what with so many medical personnel characters.

Alliance Medicine

Halo-arch, retracted.
An AAP.

Alliance medical technology is marked by its advanced technology, extremely tight privacy restrictions (due in part to the fact that the original Pelted on Terra were sometimes used as essentially lab animals), and a higher number of healers than doctors.

Alliance Medical Technology

  • Halo-arch
    • Chimes with vital signs when active[1]
    • Capable of generating numbing fields, as for wounds.[1]
    • Closed when needed for monitoring vital signs or maintaining fields; open when not[2]
  • That thing that hopefully makes higher gravity not kill you
  • Skin sealer[3]
  • Medplexes
  • A drug for allowing people to operate with thinner air/lower atmospheric pressure than they're used to[4]
  • Phobia desensitization therapy[4]
  • Medimage platform
  • AAP, sometimes AAP syringe. Stands for Air-Assisted Pump; is essentially a futuristic hypodermic. [5] Makes an assortment of quiet chirps as status responses, unless it is in silent mode, at which point the feedback is haptic. Normal operation of an AAP is not painful or even noticeable. It does hiss.
  • Accelerated healing clamps?
  • Cryogenic suspension[6]
  • vials of antiseptic bandage--smear it on and as it dries it seals wounds and sterilizes them. It grows cloudy as it dries [7]
  • embryo flotation: a field holds the fetus suspended as it develops; a monitor in the mother's uterus records body temperature, metablic changes, and heartrate, as well as all the noises the baby could hear, in order to create a real-time portrait of the birth environment. A very old and much iterated technology in the Alliance. Babies born this way still hit the same developmental milestones as their natural born peers. [8]
  • "Wooly blue," a topical anesthetic that dyes anything it touched a fixed ultramarine ("dyed in the wool"). In the Alliance, is only used in cheap emergency kits.[9]
  • Remote sensor arrays for picking up biohazards in planetary atmosphere.[10]

Alliance Medical Personnel

  • Healers and healer-assists, trained in the Alliance. Most Pelted are healers or healer-assists.
  • Doctors and nurses, trained in the human medical fashion. Less common in the Alliance than healers, but some humans and Eldritch, and even a few Pelted, living in the Alliance are doctors.

Alliance Medical Oaths

  • Kelienne (Earthrise, early chapter)

Alliance Medical Insignia

  • At least some Healers wear a DNA cadeuceus patch on their arms (unclear if this is specific to Fleet, or not, or something else).[11]
  • Nathan and Laelkii Lifeweave's home is marked by a sign of a healer's staff.[1]
  • In Sword of the Alliance, part of what makes Laelkii blend in as a medical professional is a medical apron with deep pockets.[9][12]

Alliance Pharmaceuticals

Legal pharmaceuticals used in medicine. For illegal drugs, see Controlled/Illegal Substances

  • anti-nausea patches
  • day-after - this is slang for a cocktail of drugs that take care of hangovers and the effects of poor sleep; also known as an 'after-all-nighter' and 'carousing shot'
  • erylliacoronade
  • mellifleurin - not sure what this is for, but Hirianthial uses it on Reese
  • slowsleep

Chatcaavan Medicine

Females do not merit the services of surgeons or medics, as they are considered replaceable.[13]

Chatcaavan Medical Technology

  • Flesh-sealers[13]
  • Gel-tanks:
    • Contain a translucent green substance that can be breathed. It heals injuries and numbs and soothes those immersed in it. The tanks themselves are transparent, so the gel (and the patient within it) can be seen from outside.[13]
    • Works better on Chatcaava than on others.[13]
    • Can cause an intermittent state in which the patient suffers pain, fever, delirium, and unconsciousness. This is due to the conflict between the body's memory of injury and the body's healthy state. The effect is very unpleasant, but wears off every time.[13]
    • Is not used for minor injuries (and "minor" to a Chatcaavan inside might be "devastating" to a non-Chatcaavan).[13]

Chatcaavan Medical Personnel

  • Chatcaavan surgeons, who are Outside, and who have leeway in their behavior and level of respect because they are so sorely needed by males Inside.[13]
    • Medical personnel Outside are not politically obligated to anyone and are not subject to the duels and honor wounds of those Inside; their properties include similar protections (which extend to those sheltered within them). However, they also must maintain strict neutrality to politics, and cannot maneuver for political gain. To become partisan or seek political power is to become Inside. The power that they have is due to their skills, which are especially needed by males Inside, making them valuable members of Chatcaavan society Inside.[13]
  • Triage, a male who sits at reception in a clinic and directs patients according to need.[13]

Chatcaavan Pharmaceuticals

  • Hekkret, a medicine and recreational drug for Chatcaava (and a poison for most members of the Alliance)

Miscellaneous

  • Birth control does not work reliably for Malarai.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Alysha's Fall, "A Cold and Gentle Dark"
  2. ↑ Alysha's Fall, "Blood Money"
  3. ↑ Second, Chapter 10
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Leadership Lessons"
  5. ↑ Who is Willing, appendix
  6. ↑ "In the Line of Duty"
  7. ↑ Amulet Rampant, Chapter 15
  8. ↑ Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 10
  10. ↑ Either Side of the Strand, Chapter 2
  11. ↑ Second, Chapter 9
  12. ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 11
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 Even the Wingless, Part Two
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