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side-sim: This Feels Familiar (TAG Mika)

Posted April 10, 2022, 10:23 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)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Sharah Fayth (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

“This way,” Sharah led them out of the imaging lab and stopped by the supply cabinet and pressed her palm to a reader. “Everything is locked with biometrics. It requires your palm scan that also reads your unique biochemistry and matches that to your combadge ID. But the bulk of the medications are kept in a locked store room between the medical lab and your office.” Shutting the cabinet she made her way back towards Mika’s office and past and stopped at a door with a similar lock set up and opened the door. “Only medical personnel have access here, the captain and XO. The addictive medications are locked in that cabinet and require a voice authorization code as well as the biometric reader. Only you and the shift leads can access those.” The space was more than a closet it was a room. In addition to the medications there were medical tools, old fashioned first aid kits, gowns, etc. “The surgical suite as a closet holding surgical gowns and surgical equipment. Over flow, as well as the emergency bio beds, and non-medication supplies are kept in cargo bay 6 on this deck.”

Fayth, med

Mika followed Sharah and listened as she explained the locks and locations of various items. She’d have to call it the medicine room, because that was what it was. Everything she could think of was organized neatly in the rooms, in various forms where applicable: pills, IV, hypospray compounds, etc. “I must’ve won some kind of lottery to get this position,” she said, smiling at Sharah again.

~ Lt Mika, CMO

“It feels like it. Like I said earlier when the previous Viking was lost it was like command wanted to make up for something. So everything is just…over the top. It isn’t just medical. It’s all the departments. Okay,” she made their way back across the main area and around a corner to another door. The door opened to the three bed surgical suite. All bright, shinny, new, and barely used. Sharah could appreciate it, but surgery, though she was qualified, was not her best area of medical practice. More because of her condition than because she didn’t know what to do or how to do it.

Fayth, med

“Losing a ship is a big deal. But I’m still surprised they went so far with the replacement,” she commented. Surgery wasn’t Mika’s specialty but she was qualified for it, and like Sharah had said, it was new and bright and looked barely used. It was high tech, with all the latest imaging machines that Sharah had mentioned before and bright lights to keep the surgical field well lit. Mika was, again, impressed.

“Giving the new boss a tour of the ship?” Semenza stood behind the two of them, grinning in a friendly way. He held out his hand to Mika. “Lieutenant Semenza. Your research lead.” Mika smiled and shook his hand, “Lieutenant Mika.”

~ Lt Mika, CMO (and Semenza, research)


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