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side-sim: This Feels Familiar (TAG Mika)

Posted April 10, 2022, 12:42 a.m. by Lieutenant Tandra Mika (Chief Medical Officer) (Lucas Foxley)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Sharah Fayth (Medical Officer) in side-sim: This Feels Familiar (TAG Mika)

Posted by Lieutenant Tandra Mika (Chief Medical Officer) in side-sim: This Feels Familiar (TAG Mika)

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“Point blank in the brain? And he survived?!” Mika sounded truly impressed. She was still moving and zooming through different parts of the body watching blood and oxygen travel through the body systems. Then she engaged the neurological scan and watched the electrical impulses. “I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s like the holodeck, except showing the body systems in incredible detail.” She said, awed.

~ Lt Mika, CMO

“It’s almost like robotic surgery from centuries ago, but this is so much more. I haven’t tried it yet, but apparently you can set the system for real time scans and you can watch as you perform surgery, zoom in to see exactly what’s going on beyond what the basic scans and flat imaging gives us. It’s really incredible.” Sharah hopped off the biobed and walked over to the image, “Computer, isolate heart.” The rest of the holographic image faded away leaving just the heart and its rhythmic pulsing. Sharah put her hands on it and pulled out and away in two directions, enlarging the image, she kept going until the image took up the entire space and they were standing inside the image, getting a gigantic view of the valves and chambers and how the blood flowed. But unlike on the holodeck the image wasn’t solid and they could step in and out and around it.

Fayth, med

Mika seemed highly impressed with it, watching as Fayth zoomed the image in until they were standing “inside” the holographic heart. She could see the valve function, the flow of blood, and other details. It would make it exceedingly easy to diagnose problems within the heart, which meant treatment wouldn’t be delayed by the time it took to diagnose. “Incredible is such an understatement! This is amazing! All medical services should have these.”

~ Lt Mika, CMO

“I believe the new Nightingale class hospital ships have several of these systems. We only have the one. Secondary sickbay can take the scans and send them up here, but they don’t have the system to view it down there. “The system is still a bit…glitchy. If the patient moves too much or if you do the scans by hand and go to fast it doesn’t get all the detail needed to do all this, but it still will make a huge difference I think.” It made Sharah wonder how much difference it would have made for her on the Challenger. Betazoid brains had an incredible ability to heal after physical trauma, so she was fine now, but what would a system like this have done to help Mika find and diagnose the problem? It was kind of mind boggling how much medical tech had changed in two years. “What would you like to see now?”

Fayth, med

A system like this, in Fayth’s case would definitely have sped up her diagnosis. Assuming Mika could get a clean scan, she might’ve been able to see the parasites. Or, if not, the neuro scan would’ve seen the brain abnormalities much more clearly than the scans available on the challenger. “Like old style MRIs. The patient had to stay still or the image was no good.” Mika commented, and then looked around, “What about the medical supplies and medication storage locations?”

~ Lt Mika, CMO


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