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Not directly used for healing, but indispensable for advanced treatment. When laid on a stasis bed, a patient is stunned and stops having ''life ticks''. In the simplest terms, this means that all their life functions, metabolism (including reagents and oxygen usage), breathing, disease progression, organ decay, bleeding and catastrophic combustion reactions with oxygen in the air, are put on pause. | Not directly used for healing, but indispensable for advanced treatment. When laid on a stasis bed, a patient is stunned and stops having ''life ticks''. In the simplest terms, this means that all their life functions, metabolism (including reagents and oxygen usage), breathing, disease progression, organ decay, bleeding and catastrophic combustion reactions with oxygen in the air, are put on pause. | ||
Slowing organ decay is one of the more important uses; stopping it completely with a fully upgraded capacitor. If someone is dead, you can put them here so their heart decays more slowly. Stasis also stops poisons and any damage if the patient lacks functioning lungs or breathable air. There are very few ways for people to suffer damage or die while in stasis. You don't want anyone to die, do you? | |||
Things that stasis does not stop: | Things that stasis does not stop: | ||
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Keep in mind that while in stasis, people can't naturally regenerate or process healing chemicals, so it's not all good. | Keep in mind that while in stasis, people can't naturally regenerate or process healing chemicals, so it's not all good. | ||
==Surgery== | ==Surgery== | ||
Every variant of Medical comes with an [[Operating Theatre]] attached to it. This room contains an operating table, a surgical procedures computer, a full set of surgery tools, and an anesthetic cabinet with tanks and masks. Surgery is an integral part of playing Medical Doctor, and you will often be expected to help reattach severed limbs, treat brain traumas, remove appendixes, or liposuction the fat off of overweight crew members. | Every variant of Medical comes with an [[Operating Theatre]] attached to it. This room contains an operating table, a surgical procedures computer, a full set of surgery tools, and an anesthetic cabinet with tanks and masks. Surgery is an integral part of playing Medical Doctor, and you will often be expected to help reattach severed limbs, treat brain traumas, remove appendixes, or liposuction the fat off of overweight crew members. | ||