From: Bethany \ (mouse3of3_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2007 - 20:58:51 PST
"Thawing Out" (cont. "A Klingon, a Bajoran, and a Vulcan Walk Into a Holodeck") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location: Starfleet Academy Stardate: 2.70228.2105 Scene: Holodeck Tam looked at the man before her. Human, early thirties... She processed it as she took a medical tricorder and swept it over his prone body. He was violently shuddering, constantly, his core body temperature far below what it should. The readout indicated simple exposure, as would happen with an EVA suit leak or an external bulkhead depressurizing. She had dealt with it multiple times on the Explorer, as there was always an engineer that would catch his suit on a jagged piece of metal during repairs on the hull, and responded almost mechanically. She had to get his vitals up, keep him warm, and likely give him fluids. She had the thermal blanket in seconds, spreading it over him and activating it; it would match his current body temperature and slowly raise it to a normal human temperature. The next thing to her hand was a hyperbaric oxygen mask, regulated to force ship-quality air into his lungs. He was shivering hard and constantly enough that she doubted that he'd had much of any air intake since he was transported. While she waited for that to take effect, she re-ran the scan on the tricorder. As she suspected, it just confirmed the diagnosis of exposure. This was a scenario that she'd had already, during her second year at the Academy, when she'd undergone nurse training. It was designed primarily to assess reaction to a mild crisis, and weed out the panickers. **And I wonder why they're making me take it again.** She was undergoing retraining as a psychologist, after all, and ship's counselors were rarely called upon to accomplish the kind of medical miracles that took place in a sickbay. She resolved to ask once she was finished with this "patient." His color was starting to resemble that of the human norm, and his temperature was only a couple of degrees shy. His vitals were also starting to settle. One last sweep with the tricorder, and she started him on fluids. "Computer, alert Lieutenants Sevlock and Q'ser'la that the patient has been stabilized." She wasn't sure if she was required to or not, but it was better to err on the side of caution. She looked back at the man on the bed and waited for something to happen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NRPG: I would have written more, but I'm not sure whether she's supposed to know when the levels change or not, or if she has to interact with the instructors first. Bethany B. Cadet Tam Niala ACT Candidate Class 0702 Starfleet Academy --------------------------------- Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. From HyperNews_at_youth.net
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