RSS Affinity Medical Bay

The Med Bay is located on the Crew Deck, back and to the left, before Hydroponics.

Amenities
The Med Bay houses state of the art medical technology including, but not limited to: kolto tanks, scanning systems, surgery droids, monitoring systems, cryo-stasis chambers, and sanitation units.

At all times, attending nurse droids are available. Higher level medical staff can be reached at any hour.

Standard Procedure
The medical bay should be neatly cleaned and well organized, for there is always the chance of complication or sudden emergencies and the inability to find or clean a piece of equipment quickly enough is a poor excuse to potentially lose a life. The medical bay should also have been preemptively sterilized within the last twelve hours, even if no other patients have been seen. Commonly used equipment (Tongue depressors, and contact based scanners) should be sterilized immediately before the appointment/procedure, or should use approved disposable versions of said equipment. Please be sure to immediately discard of disposable equipment into the provided biohazardous waste containment unit.

All appropriate paperwork and medical history should be reviewed by the attending physician or surgeon beforehand, taking particular note of allergies and previous procedures. If no medical history is available for whatever reason, please be sure to go over some of the basics (Allergies, cybernetics, previous surgeries) with your patient. Be sure to take note of these things, and add them to your patient’s medical file for future reference. Examine the reason for appointment, particularly the origin of injury if applicable. Be very aware of the point of origin or the injury/illness. If it is outside your realm of expertise, please have another physician attend, or have them attend with you so that you may learn from them. This procedure should be particularly noted if the origin of the illness has the possibility of being a force-based artifact or person. If that is the case, we would ask that you have a force-healer member of the medical staff take the lead on this consultation.

All medical staff are required to wear clean, appropriate equipment when in the medical bay, even when not attending a patient. Gloves should be replaced as frequently as possible, and all other equipment should be replaced as soon as it has been in contact with any contagious or hazardous material. Even when wearing gloves, please use common sense and wash your hands before every individual patient. Infection can be very difficult to remove once it has set in, and we must take every possible route to prevent it. If there is any sign or suspicion that a piece of equipment or gear has been contaminated in some way, please do not take the risk. Change it as soon as realistically possible.

Aside from assigned guards or other appropriate personnel, blaster based weaponry should not be allowed within the medical bay. The medical bay houses a wide range of expensive and possibly dangerous pieces of equipment and chemicals. This is a precautionary measure to prevent potential harm to both patient and doctor, as well as to protect the medical bay itself. There is little need for weaponry when getting a check up, so there is no need to risk any accidental discharges. Always insist that patients leave weapons with the currently assigned guards, or the nearest security checkpoint.

After you have completed the check up or procedure, please be sure to record all findings, as well as any new notes of importance that you may have encountered. This is a courtesy to your fellow medical staff, and your patient. There is little excuse for poor housekeeping; that includes filing and documentation. In the event that a debilitating or risk-inducing issue is discovered, please consult the patient on how they wish to progress. If it is called for, immediately notify Argent Watch leadership of their condition.

Emergency Protocol
Emergency protocol should largely, when possible, remain very similar to standard operating procedure. All available medical staff should be on call when there is a known combat or training operation happening. As soon as an operation or dangerous training exercise is announced, medical staff should immediately schedule a sterilization and cleaning session for directly before the deployment time. It is especially important to take inventory before these operations, as there is likely to be a large influx of injuries. A lack of important supplies could very easily cost lives.

In the likely event that personnel with life threatening injuries enter the medical bay, please be sure that the proper staff are on hand. If the medical droids are preoccupied, only certified anesthesiologists may apply anesthetic or other drugs that require certification. If you lack the qualification or knowledge to make an educated prognosis on any matter, please do not simply guess. Immediately consult with either a medical droid or a professional in whatever field is required. Guessing may save time in dire situations, but it can just as easily destroy the person you are attempting to save.

If required, medical personnel hold the authority to demand non-medical personnel to exit the medical bay. Whether this is to prevent further contamination, or to simply remove distractions, know when to make that call. There is no need for you to have increased stress or any distraction. Do not let your fellow’s emotions overrule your sensibility.

In the event of a possible fast moving contamination, or extreme foreign entities, the medical staff are able to immediately lock down the medical bay. The medical bay is equipped with various levels of quarantine protocols, and you should not hesitate to use them if it is called for. Preventing the spread of any serious illness will make your jobs far easier in the near future. When under quarantine, all medical staff must wear appropriate level quarantine equipment, which is to be incinerated immediately after finishing your rounds in the quarantine area. No personnel outside medical staff should ever be allowed in or out. In some more serious events, medical staff may be prevented from exiting once they have entered the quarantine zone. Please remember to keep in routine contact with both the Argent Watch leadership and the acting Chief Medical Officer. It is equally important to keep detailed logs of your procedures and patient progress when a pause can be found.

Foreign Force Entities or Force Illnesses
In the cases of force specific or related afflictions, it is especially important to stick to what you are familiar with. Non-force using medical staff should not attempt to treat these afflictions through traditional means, but wait for one of their appropriately trained fellows to arrive. Equally important, if you are a force healer but not a proficient mind healer, if the illness is clearly one of the mind then you are to wait for a mind healer. Simply continue to monitor and record the patient, and take any necessary steps to ensure the patient’s safety until the appropriate member of the medical staff arrives. While a patient is being treated for force related illnesses, it is recommended to have a medical droid or non-force using medical staff member with you to monitor your own health. Very often we cannot immediately identify how these afflictions are spread, and it is important to be able to look for even the slightest symptoms while not impeding your own work on the patient. If a recovered artifact or relic that was recovered is thought to be the cause of an affliction, immediately inform a leader of one of the Jedi groups so that they might take the appropriate steps to safely lock down the artifact.

Bedside Manner
All patients are entitled to certain courtesies. The first and foremost of which is information. Never deprive a patient of information relating to their own body. They should always be given the facts in a realistic setting, in the calmest and most comforting way it can be done. Lay out options on how to proceed in more serious cases. It is your job to keep them as calm and comfortable as possible while under your care, so use common sense. It will not always be possible to give them everything they want, but give all you realistically can without risking the patient’s, or anyone else's health.

Treating Prisoners
Before proceeding with standard protocol. Prisoners must receive a series of tests and scans immediately beforehand. If the prisoner is fresh from the battlefield, it is the job of the security force bringing them to immediately disarm every potential weapon from them. Cybernetics that do not provide life-giving functions should be disabled by the medical staff’s cybertechnicians. A minimum of one guard should always be posted inside or directly outside of the medical bay when dealing with prisoners. If the prisoner is a force user, it is strongly encouraged that the guard be one as well. If the guard chosen is in fact a force user, they must at least have achieved the rank of Jedi Knight or equivalent from another Force branch. All prisoners should be bound, no exceptions. This task should be done by the security staff escorting the prisoner, but if it is not, you are to immediately restrain them. We are not looking to risk the safety of our staff. The patient should be thoroughly scanned for internal cybernetics, implants, irregularities in form, and checked for poison capsules. No self harm should ever happen within our medical bay, it is our job as Doctors and Healers to prevent the loss of life, even if they are attempting to take their own. You should show the same courtesies to prisoners that you do any other patient, if possible. If for some reason you are incapable of having proper bedside manner, either remain silent or call for another member of the medical staff to replace you.