Редактирование: Guide to Wounds (раздел)

=== Pierce Wounds ===

General notes:
* Like slashing wounds, these mostly cause bleeding. Unlike slashing wounds, these require manual treatment in order to stop bleeding, though they're not nearly as pressing. Also, lowering the bleeding rate will not demote it to a lower tier wound.
** Bandaging: Wrapping the pierce with bandages significantly amps up your clotting rate while active, providing a potent buff to recovery speed.
** Coagulants: Epipens and emergency medipens contain a coagulant reagent that treats all bleeding wounds, excellent for when you need to immediately slow down bleeding or are dealing with a patient with multiple cuts.
** Suturing/Cauterization: Sutures and cauterization immediately reduce bleeding with each application, which you can repeat until treated. Sutures are great because they reduce bleeding and heal brute damage at the same time, but if you don't have any available, you can cauterize the cut with anything that can light a cigarette. It'll hurt a bit, but you won't use up any consumables. 
* '''Remember: A stitch in time saves nine!''' Your blood_flow is both a tracker for how serious your wound is, as well as how much blood you lose ''every tick'', so sinking it as soon as possible is important. Immediately applying a bandage, jabbing a medipen, or even managing one or two sutures/cauterizations can make a big difference in the total amount of blood lost by the time the wound is healed.


==== Moderate: Minor Breakage ====
* Notes: Causes a little bit of bleeding, but not to the point that you should interrupt what you're doing to fix it by itself. Simply suture, cauterize, or gauze at your convenience.

==== Severe: Open Puncture ====
* Notes: Still not super serious, but remember that every blow to this limb can cause you to lose extra blood from the hole in it. For reference, the base bloodflow here is a bit higher than a moderate slash. If you have a surgical drapes, a hemostat/scalpel, and a cautery, the [[Surgery#Repair_Puncture|Repair Puncture]] surgery is very quick (simply incise, hemo/scalpel, cautery/anything hot, repeat 2 & 3 until treated, close surgery) and effective at treating piercing wounds.

==== Critical: Ruptured Cavity ====
* Notes: Almost every hit to this bodypart will cause you to lose additional blood, and you're bleeding at the rate of a severe slash. Not pretty! While not as immediately life threatening as a critical slash, this is still a very big issue and should be treated rapidly. At this point, the [[Surgery#Repair_Puncture|Repair Puncture]] surgery is likely your best option.
* Also note that critical pierces count as mangling flesh, which means that if you have this, you're pretty close to getting this bodypart severed entirely. Just another reason to get it fixed ASAP!

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