TGMC:Squad Corpsman

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Squad Corpsman

Access: Squad Corpsman Equipment Room, Squad Room Difficulty: Hard Rank: Lance Corporal (Starting), Corporal (25 hours), Sergeant (100 hours) Class: Marines Supervisors: Squad Leader Duties: Keep your squad alive, send seriously wounded back to the ship. Guides: Guide to medicine, Guide to Defibrillation Quote:Hey look, buddy. I'm a Corpsman. That means I solve problems. Not like problems "What is an operation", 'cause that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve medical problems. For instance, how am I gonna stop some big mean Mother-Queen tearing all the marines apart? The answer? Use MeraDerm. And if that don't work? Use more MeraDerm.

Introduction

The Corpsman are the frontline medics of the TGMC. After going through 7-9 weeks in Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, then 19 FREAKING WEEKS in Hospital Corps “A” School in Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio, Texas, and who the freak knows how long for Field Medical Service School in either Camp Lejeune, NC, or Pendleton, CA, you are FINALLY attached to TerraGov Marine Corps. No matter what anyone says about your Navy background, you are a MARINE!

Utilizing the latest in Nanotrasen technology which is also the lowest bidder, you're equipped to treat almost every type of damage, keeping marines in the fight, medevacing them to safety, or even bringing them back to life if they've been killed.

Your job

You are the Corpsman. You are a marine who has both firearm and medical skills, and a critically important asset to any marine force.

You are there with one main goal:

Keep your squad going

Which means:

• Keep the marines alive and healthy
• Treat those heavily injured
• Revive those recently dead
• Evac marines whom you cannot treat
• Evac marines who need too much time to treat
• Be at the front, but not on the front. Cover your squadmates, but do not expose yourself - who will rescue you?
• Don't forget to pay attention to your surroundings. Do not lag behind the squad with that one poor fella.

The role of Corpsman is very difficult but equally rewarding, and every marine knows they wouldn't last long without you. You are first and foremost a medic. The fight is your secondary responsibility. But you are still a marine and will often encounter flankers, harassers, or an entire assault force bearing down on your position. Do not be surprise that you will be doing care under fire, which you have learned in your TCCC course (Tactical Combat Casualty Care). This balancing act of managing casualties while protecting your rear-lines, or being able to support a push with backup firepower, is one all Corpsmen must master. One who masters this is the One True Corpsman.

Playing the Corpsman for the first time

Compared to a marine, you have two main differences - your loadout, and your in-combat actions.

Loadout for your not-yet-a-corpse corpsman

Also read Guide to medicine

• Go to your medical preps, and head to corpsman GHMME Automated Closet
  • Take necessary undersuit, armor, etc.
  • Take Lifesaver Belt. This is large pill bottle storage you WILL need.
  • Take two medical pouches. Autoinjector and Medkit ones are recommended.
• Turn to MarineMed in the same room. You don't have all the pills you want yet.
  • Take Alkysine and Imidazone pills. Those you give to people with brain damage.
  • Take Hypervene. This you give when people have OD or Neurotoxin in their blood.
• Turn to NEXUS Automated Medical Equipment Rack.
  • Take essential kit there. It is described below.
  • Choose stuff you want from NEXUS.
  • It is recommended you take Meralyne, Dermaline, Nanoblood.
  • It is also recommended you take several Peridaxon+ and QuickClot+ autoinjectors, they are very cheap but rare.
• Equip Med HUD.
• Go to ship's medbay, and install medical beacon.
• Take medevac bed in your hand, and link it to the beacon by clicking.
• FUCKING LINK IT.

And you're done.

Your short and intensive life

• Follow your squad
• Really, follow, don't stay on FOB
• Heal those people who you see are significantly damaged
• Stay at the back
• Heal the marines
  • Use HF2 analyser on a marine. Access the damage.
  • Read the red words at the bottom of the window.
  • Hypervene if you see toxins in blood, or overdose (OD)
  • Inaprovaline if person has red blinking health bar (crit). Always do that, Ina is good.
  • Bicardine + Meralyne for brute
  • Kelotane + Dermaline for burn
  • Tricordazine heals everything, and is very nice overall
  • Dylovene for toxins
  • Dexaline for oxygen damage
  • Oxy damage = something else is wrong.
    • Low blood - use Nanoblood. Only one inject at a time.
    • If not - use Peridaxon+. Only one inject at a time.
  • Splint broken limbs
  • If the person has white sparks near the health bar - give Alkysine and Imidazone.
• If you're not sure what's wrong with a person:
  • If situation is critical, evac him. Then return to this page or Guide to medicine and figure out what was wrong.
  • If not, try to be patient and cool. You got it.
  • In both cases, OOC and Mentor help are your friends.
• Listen to the marines, and especially Corpsmen, around you

In-depth explanation to everything is below.

Your Gear

NEXUS Automated Medical Equipment Rack

NEXUS menu

In the NEXUS, you are allowed to use 45 points. Full menu can be seen on the left.

• Neuraline Autoinjector is only obtainable from here. It is a useful emergency chem, but not required.
• Meralyne and Dermaline are a must have. Note that pills offer 240u, while bottles only half as much.
• Nanoblood hypospray with 60u is likely all you will ever need.
• Peridaxon+ and QuickClot+ are very useful to have, and quite cheap.
• BIG hypospray hold 120u, twice as of normal autoinjector. It is also somewhat rare - you can order it from cargo for 50 points, and it does not spawn.
• You can take normal hyposprays from NanoTrasen med vendors for free.
• You can also easily create synaptizine in the chemistry. See Guide to chemistry
• 'HUD glasses' are actually just HF2 analyzer.
  

Medical Equipment

HealthHUB

Your bread and butter. Visually see how much damage a marine has. See if they are staggered or in crit.

Файл:Medicbag.png Medic Backpack

The backpack you start with has a defibrillator charger attached to it, and a power cell for the charger. Click-drag your defib to your backpack to recharge it. Examine the backpack to check how much battery charge it still has left.

Файл:Medicbelt.png Lifesaver Belt

The belt you get from your equipment vendor comes with a variety of pill bottles, some splints and trauma/burn kits, and a couple injectors with useful chems. The guide to medicine will tell you what items treat what, and your health scanner will also tell you what medicine to use.

Файл:DMCA health analyzer.png Health Scanner

Your health scanner will show you whatever injuries a person has. At the bottom of the pop-out window, you will get advice for what steps you should take to heal the person you've scanned. Certain injuries will require a body scanner to locate, and will often require surgery to fix.

Файл:Rollerbedfolded.png Roller Bed

Roller beds are very useful for getting wounded marines out of danger before treating them. You can drag an unfolded roller bed onto your sprite to re-fold it. Sleeping on one of these heals a small amount of cellular damage, and it can also be used as a makeshift surgical bed. As a Corpsman, doing this will probably cause necrosis.

Файл:Medevacbedfolded.png Medevac Stretcher

Similar to roller beds, you can put a wounded marine in a medevac bed that's linked to a beacon and teleport the person in the bed to your linked beacon. Do not forget to link your medevac bed to your medevac beacon! Activate it before getting on to medevac yourself, if things are that desperate. Cooldown of 180s. Doing and evac prompts an alert on the Medical radio channel as well as producing an audible sound from the beacon, so don't worry about surprising medbay staff.

Medevac Beacon

Links up to a medevac bed. Use it in your hand where you want the beacon placed, then use the medevac bed on the beacon once it's on the ground. The beacon needs to be placed in a powered area. Moving it will BREAK the link. Do not forget to link your medevac bed to your medevac beacon!

Файл:Hypo.png Hypospray

The hypospray can be used to quickly inject chemicals into people. When you activate it in your hand, you can set how many units you want it to inject per click, fill it with any pill or bottle, or you can choose to flush the contents to be replaced with other reagents. Holds up to 60u, can take pills directly in. You can also mix things there, like two pills of Dylovene with a pill of Inaprovaline.

Файл:Cryobag.png Stasis Bag

Stasis bags will slow down dying, larva growth, and keep critically injured people alive for long amounts of time. Health scanners will work through the bag. Might cause some genetic damage later down the line.

Файл:Defib 3.gif Defibrillator

See Defibrillation

Brings recently killed people back into the living world. If someone has an electricity icon on them, they can be saved. Needs to be recharged after a repeated use, the sprite will give a rough estimate of how much charge is left: green, yellow, and red. As long as you have medical training, defibbing someone will heal 8 damage as a Corpsman.

Advanced first-aid kit

A box with three essential pill bottles, both types of medical kits, a health scanner, and splints. Can't be put in anything, but it's a convenient carrying case.

Doing your job

For more information, see Guide to medicine

Treating damage

Once you put on your Medical HUD glasses, you will see a health bar over anyone who is hurt. Using your HF2 medical scanner on them will tell you how much damage they have, and other info such as any bone fractures or trauma. If you don't know what to treat them with, follow the advice at the bottom of the popout window, and make sure to check this page and Guide to medicine.

Do NOT give someone medicine if someone else is already treating them. You'll most likely overdose them.

There are several important parts of the analysis:

• Raw damage
• Info on each limb
• Broken limbs, infections
• Reagents in blood
• Other status effects
• Blood level
• Med advice

Checking the state

The Health Analyzer Pop-out window

Your priorities to check are:

• They are not dying from suffocation (blue damage).
  • If they are, use Dexalin+
• They are not having toxins, or overdoses
  • If they are, use Hypervene.
• They are not dying from toxins (150+ toxin damage)
  • If they are, use Dylovene and Tricordazine, and evac.
  • If they die with 200+ toxins, the marine cannot be revived.

Treating damage

In most cases, simply feed them the relevant pills:

• Tricordazine (green pill bottle) for any damage type
• Bicaridine (red pill bottle) for brute
• Kelotane (yellow pill bottle) for burns
• Dylovene (green pill bottle) for toxins
• Dexalin (blue pill bottle) for oxygen
• Tramadol (gray pill bottle) as a painkiller

Additionally, you should use membranes (green and brown) to heavily injured limbs to speed up the process and save chems. Each of the pills of Bica/Kelo can heal up to 75 points of their respective damage, and up to 60 for Trica which heals all types.

Removing status effects

You may treat bleeding by applying a bandage or an advanced trauma kit. But it will go away anyway, if you heal the marine.

If the limb is fractured, use a splint on the specified limb. If you do not know where the fracture is, several ways to guess:

• If limb has 0 damage but still shows on the scanner, it has a fracture.
• Most heavily damaged limb is likely to have the fracture.
• You can ask the marine, where he feels his bones broken.
• If scanner says possible fracture on chest, groin, head and bottom text says "fracture detected, advanced scanner required", it is NOT arm/leg.
• If limb says possible fracture on chest, groin, head, but there is no bottom text saying advanced scanner required, it is a false positive and there is no fracture

If a person has an infection, administer 2 doses of Spaceacilin.

If the person has white sparks near the healthbar, they are either

• Have brain damage. Give them Alkysine and Imidazone. Surgery is not required.
• Have stamina damage. Give oxycodone or synaptizine, but it will go away anyway.
  • Note that some chems also give stamina damage, like Dylovene or Peri+.
• Under heavy pain. HF2 will tell you this by saying "oxycodone recommended". Give them oxycodone or tramadol.

Oxygen damage

When dealing with oxygen damage, there are several causes that may be the reason.

• Check if their blood level is below 90%. Having low blood levels deal oxygen damage at a steady rate, and this can stack up very rapidly and is quite lethal. In which case, you may give them Nanoblood (if you have it), or feed them food, as nutrition steadily regenerates blood. The fastest way to regain blood is through IV drips loaded with O- blood bags if it is available, though mostly only Medical Officers use it.
• It may also be organ damage in the form of a damaged heart or lungs. Should it be the case, you have Peridaxon Plus autoinjectors for use to treat organ damage. Only inject once! A Peridaxon Plus autoinjector has 3 uses, and more than 1 injection in a short period of time is lethal. The treatment will cause toxin damage (mostly negated by other chemicals in the injector) and leave the patient with long-term cellular damage. If the patient is rapidly suffocating and dying from oxygen loss, use Dexalin (blue pill bottle) to slow down the buildup of oxygen damage, and Dexalin Plus (blue autoinjector) to heal all oxygen damage in one go. Normal Peridaxon will stop oxygen damage from accumulating unless the organ damage is extreme, but it won't fix the problem.

When it comes to Toxin damage, the only way to treat it is through chemicals. As much as possible, you want to keep toxin damage at zero. Constantly increasing toxin damage indicates liver damage, and enough toxin damage can cause marines to puke in the middle of combat, stunning them for an excruciating long while. Use Dylovene (green pill bottle) to treat toxin damage. Note that Dylovene stops stamina regeneration, so it can actually be worse than nothing in some cases. Tricordrazine is a safer, but much slower, alternative. In the case of a marine with constantly increasing toxin damage, use Peridaxon Plus to heal their liver, or Peridaxon to buy time.

Cellular damage is unique, and it's only inflicted on marines who have been psy-drained while dead or who have been given certain high-powered medication. It can be healed slowly by sleeping on a bed, including a roller bed, or much more effectively by the cryogenics tube in the ship's Medbay. You won't see this damage directly listed, it'll be extra total damage unaccounted for by the four main types.

There are two organs Peridaxon Plus can't fix, which are the brain and the eyes. In the case of brain damage, feed the patient with Alkysine, if you have it on hand. If a marine can't see, then use Imidazoline.

For Internal Bleeding, there are several ways of handling this as a medic. The most straightforward way is feeding the patient with Quick Clot (lime green pill bottle) and medevacing them to medbay for surgery. However, Quick Clot Plus autoinjectors are also a choice. It heals Internal Bleeding in one injection, but it stuns the patient, and is only recommended to be used in the FOB, or in secure areas where you're sure there won't be hostiles. Like Peridaxon Plus, it will cause cellular damage. The most crude method is through Bicaridine overdose which does heal Internal Bleeding, though slowly, and it deals burn damage. This is generally safer than Quick Clot Plus, though - Kelotane will negate the burn damage.

What to do if someone overdoses

If some idiot (you) ends up overdosing someone on a chemical, you should use Hypervene to purge any chems from their body. Hypervene is available in pill and autoinjector forms. You'll also want to heal the toxin damage with Dylovene, if the overdose inflicted it. In some cases (Bicaridine as mentioned above, and Spaceacillin against necrosis) an overdose might be beneficial, however.

Dealing with the recently deceased

If you see someone who's dead and has a lightning symbol next to them, they can be saved. If there's a skull next to them, it's too late to help them. If the lightning symbol is yellow they have just died and you have some time. If it's orange, you're starting to run out of time. If it's red, they're about to die! Using your defibs on them will either bring them back to life or reset how much time you have to save them. There is a more detailed guide to this, but the basics are:

• Remove any armor covering the chest.
• Check the lighting symbol to see how much time you have. Yellow means more than 3 minutes, Orange means more than a minute, and Red means you only have a minute left.
• See how much damage they have. They won't come back to life if they have over 200 total brute/burn damage.
• Give them treatment for whatever damage they took. Use advanced trauma and advanced burn kits to bring the damage down as much as possible, then feed them Inaprovaline (purple pill bottle), which instantly heals 30% of their brute and burn damage. Consider not doing this if there's any risk the patient will get dragged off, or the Inaprovaline will additionally keep them alive in crit as they're dragged half a mile away from anyone who could recover their body.
• Make sure the defibrillator is ready for defibbing by activating it in your hand, then click on the dead patient to revive them.
• Feed them the relevant pills to heal the rest of their damage.

If a marine has more damage than you can heal with kits, or a significant amount of toxin damage, repeatedly defibrillating them will slowly heal all damage types. Only Marines with some level of medical training will do this, a normal Squad Marine can only revive, so get them to do CPR to buy more time instead. In addition, marines who have more than 500 total brute/burn damage are an expensive endeavor to revive on the field. It is generally better to medevac them for medbay to fix with sutures and their superior defibrillator skill.

When to send people back

Sometimes people will have life-threatening problems that you can't fix in the field. If they can't walk back, you should either put them on a roller bed and bring them back to the dropship, or use a medevac bed if you don't have time.

If someone has:

• Internal bleeding - Give them quickclot and send them back for surgery.
• Bone Fractures - Splint the wounded area. They might need surgery later, but in most cases they can still fight. If no location is indicated, it's either the head, groin, or torso. How to tell? The affected part won't disappear from the scanner even when otherwise healed. The splint will need to be re-applied if the wounded area takes too much damage, depending on the medical skill of the person that applied the splint.
• Been Infected by a facehugger - Send them back for surgery. If you're far away a stasis bag will keep them alive longer.
• Embedded objects - Use your tweezers on them. You might have to try multiple limbs. This has the same message as being infected and as having expensive Researcher implants, so consider asking your patient first before tearing out their stealth field generator.
• Low blood - Use Nanoblood, if you have it, or have them go back for more blood. If there's food around feeding them can also work.

Tips

• Don't try to treat anyone who can't run if you're in danger. Put them on a roller bed and get somewhere safer first.
• You can buy more hyposprays in your vendor, and you can mix different chemicals in them and change how much is applied. If you know what you're doing, it can help a lot.
• Meralyne and Dermaline are advanced counterparts of Bicaridine and Kelotane, respectively. They heal double the amount of damage per tick, but they have a lower overdose limit of 10 units. Combining Meralyne with Bicaridine and Dermaline with Kelotane is a potent trick to rapidly get marines back on their feet.
• You can fireman carry downed Marines by grabbing them, then clicking on yourself. Slower than a roller bed, but you can hold a person in one hand and drag a roller bed with the other.
• Lollipops (and cigarettes) can be used to microdose certain chemicals, granting the full healing effect while using less at once. Note that this also applies to the negative effects; a Russian Red lollipop will make you near-immortal but still constantly rack up cellular damage. Using an autoinjector or hypospray on a lollipop will inject a single dose. If the amount's too low, nothing will happen.
• Technically, you don't need welding goggles as long as you have Imidazoline.
• You aren't a proper doctor, but you know enough about both surgery and medicine to keep the Medbay functioning if there's no doctors around (or if they've been decapitated). Surgery steps will take about twice as long as a doctor, but you're still several times faster than untrained soldiers. You also can operate the Autodoc perfectly, unlike non-medical personnel, letting you free people from the purgatory of Automatic Mode.

Treatment priority

In a hectic situation, you're going to need to be able to discern who needs treatment immediately as a snap judgement and focus on who needs your help more. The first rule of performing your duty of care is to not panic. Take a deep breath and try to remember this rule of thumb as to who needs you more:

• The recently dead
• Xeno hosts
• Those in critical condition
• Immobile patients
• Everyone else

The recently dead are on a hard timer and the longer you leave them, the more likely that timer will have expired and making them permanently dead, no matter what everyone else's problem is - they're unlikely to be in as much need as they do. You can identify the recently dead by the lightning bolt symbol that your health HUD assigns them. Xeno hosts can afford to wait but they're on a timer as well and if it expires - you now have a larva to deal with, and a marine with massive organ damage. In a triage situation, stabilisation matters first, once people are out of the danger zone - you can focus on the underlying causes. Don't be afraid to conscript marines as nurses to tend to the wounded if you absolutely need a hand.

TGMC Roles
	TerraGov Marines	Command	Captain, Field Commander, Staff Officer, Pilot Officer
		Engineering and Supply	Chief Ship Engineer, Requisitions Officer, Ship Technician
		Medical	Chief Medical Officer, Medical Officer, Researcher
		Marines	Squad Leader, Mech Pilot, Squad Smartgunner, Squad Engineer, Squad Corpsman, Squad Marine
		Civilians	Corporate Liaison
		Silicon-Based	Combat robots, Synthetic, AI
	Xenomorphs	Tier 0	Larva, Minions
		Tier 1	Drone, Runner, Defender, Baneling, Sentinel
		Tier 2	Hivelord, Carrier, Hunter, Wraith, Bull, Warrior, Puppeteer, Spitter
		Tier 3	Gorger, Defiler, Widow, Ravager, Warlock, Behemoth, Crusher, Praetorian, Boiler
		Tier 4	Shrike, Queen, King, Hivemind
	Others		Zombie, Emergency Response Teams, Sons of Mars, Survivor