Medical Facilities

Introduction

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Intensive Care Unit

The Pacifica’s intensive care unit is a specialised ward located on Deck 10, where life-threatening conditions are monitored, treated and managed. Patients placed in intensive care typically require some sort of organ support (brain, heart, lungs, etc.) and invasive monitoring and/or treatment. As the name implies, intensive care requires medical care providers to spend more time monitoring and treating than they normally would. Starfleet medical protocols state that ICUs must maintain a patient to critical care personnel ratio of no lower than two to one.

The ICU is designed to give the Pacifica’s doctors and nurses unobstructed access to a patient’s room at all times. The ward is laid out in a semi-circular design and features 4 separate rooms with a fully-manned nurse’s/monitoring station located near the entrance. Each room is equipped with specialized equipment not readily found in a typical sickbay, such as a Pulmonary Infuser and Vascular Regenerator. All biobeds are equipped with Biofunction Monitors, as well as treatment-specific instrument clusters. The rooms are also equipped with builtin stasis fields and null-grav generators.

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Recovery Ward

The recovery ward is the area where a patient is taken to after surgery to safely regain consciousness from anesthesia and receive appropriate post-operative care. The Pacifica's recovery ward is located on Deck 10 opposite the ship's surgical suites. The recovery ward is equipped with several comfortable biobeds and a wide variety of medical monitoring equipment. The ward is primarily used in overflow situations as the ship is also equipped with three private recovery rooms. In emergency situation the ward's biobeds can be converted and used for general purposes.

Even in the 24th Century, surgery is an invasive procedure and a patient's body needs time to heal. The amount of time a patient requires in the recovery ward will vary by surgical or diagnostic procedure and the type of anesthesia used. As the patient recovers from anesthesia, their post-operative condition is assessed by the recovery nursing staff. A physician may order analgesic or antiemetic medication for any pain or nausea and vomiting, and the Chief Medical Officer and/or anesthesiologist may come by to examine the patient.

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Isolation Ward Nursery

The isolation ward is a small specialized ward on the USS Pacifica that operates under quarantine protocols for the safety of patients and the ship population as a whole. The patients housed and treated inside isolation wards typically fall into two categories: those with injuries and immunodeficiency ailments that must be shielded from a variety of environmental factors (protective isolation); and those having infectious agents that have the potential of spreading...particularly into epidemic/pandemic proportions (source isolation). Communicable diseases are a deadly threat aboard the confined spaces of a ship or space station.

The ward have certain levels of isolation, with specific guidelines in regards to treatment programs, exposure times, biohazard protection, sterility, and the like. These protocols can be as simple as having clean hands and keeping the patient behind a closed door to completely sealed and sterile rooms where medical personnel are required to wear full, self-contained biosuits. Decontamination is a day-to-day necessity. In isolation wards, it is not only the patients that are intensely monitored, but also their environments. Rooms have dedicated replicator/recyclers so that very little is ever brought in from the outside. Soiled linens, uneaten food, used medical supplies and the like are immediately treated as hazardous waste and converted into harmless inert carbon particles in the replicators. As in Hazardous Materials Labs, isolation wards can be flooded in an emergency with a variety of gases and/or radiation designed to neutralize lethal agents that have escaped quarantine.

Medical personnel assigned to isolation wards typically have advanced training in dealing with biohazard emergencies, epidemiology, pathology, and immunology/exo-immunology. They are also trained to recognize and treat various psychological problems that most humanoids exhibit from being isolated, such as depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and the like.

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Emergency Bio Support Unit

The Pacifica is equipped with a Emergency Bio Support Unit where patients with severe burn injuries are treated. The Emergency Bio Support Unit is located next to the Intensive Care Unit on Deck 10.

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Dentistry Suite

The Pacifica has a small fully equipped dentistry suite located on Deck 10. The ship’s Dentist and his small staff work out of this area of the ship. The Pacifica’s dentistry consists of a small waiting room complete with attached office, along with an examination room/lab, and an operating room.

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