My rough sketch (didn't deal with poisons/diseases yet, or with high-TL medical gadgets):
Note: For the sake of these rules, default ship medlabs (subsumed in the stateroom cost and tonnage) count as "Aid Stations"; specifically-purchased and seperately-manned Extended Medlabs are considered to be full "Hospitals" (but with lower patient capacities unless you have alot of modules).
Extended Medlab
While each ship has a small medical facility subsumed in its stateroom cost and tonnage, some designers may wish to include a larger, better equipped medlab in their designs. An Extended Medlab holds hospital-grade medical equipment and allows for complex medical procedures (such as extensive surgical operations) to take place; it requires one Medic and treats up to two patients per module, displaces 8 dtons and costs MCr8. No EPs are required.
Diagnosis
Any medical condition must be diagnosed before it could be treated. Diagnosing external wounds is a
Medic/EDU/+4 task; diagnosing internal wounds is a
Medic/EDU/0 task; diseases and poisons should each have their own diagnosis DMs.
Non-explosive projectiles, fire and sharp melee weapons cause external wounds; explosions, falling and blunt melee weapons cause internal wounds.
To all diagnosis tests, apply the appropriate DM from the following table, according to the facility in which the diagnosis is performed:
</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">FACILITY DM
TL5-6 Hospital +1
TL7-9 Hospital +3
TL10+ Hospital +4
TL7-9 Aid Station +1
TL10+ Aid Station +2
Medkit + Medscanner +1</pre>[/QUOTE]A successful diagnosis allows for fully effective treatment; a failed diagnosis applies DM-2 to treatment and doubles the healing time; a Spectacular Success in diagnosis provides DM+2 to treatment and halves the healing time; a Spectacular Failure in diagnosis leads to a failed treatment that reduces each wounded characteristic by one and requires diagnosis and treament to be started anew with DM-2.
Treatment
A superficial wound (no characteristic reduced to zero) is treated by a
Medic/INT/+2 task. Successful treatment allows the character to recover all wounds within one day; failure or lack of treatment result in the damage healing at the rate of 2 points per day; Spectacular Success effectively heals all damage IMMIDIATELY; Spectacular Failure results in the damage healing at the rate of 1 point per day.
A light wound (one characteristic reduced to zero) is treated by a
Medic/INT/0 task. Successful treatment allows the character to recover 2 damage points per day; failure or lack of treatment result in the damage healing at the rate of 1 point per day; Spectacular Success allows all damage to heal in one day; Spectacular Failure results in the damage increasing by 1D6 per wounded characteristic and requires diagnosis and treatment anew with DM-1.
A serious wound (two characteristics reduced to zero) is treated by a
Medic/INT/-4 task without a surgeon, or by a
Medic/DEX/-2 by a surgeon (atleast Medic-3 and DEX8+); any treatment requires an Aid Station (or a ship's default medlab) for the very least. Successful treatment allows the character to recover 1 damage points per day; failure or lack of treatment prevent healing and require diagnosis and treatment to be done again with DM-2; Spectacular Success allows 2 points of damage to heal per day; Spectacular Failure results in shock (death results unless a
Medic/INT/-4 task succeeds in stabilizing the character).
"Death" (all characteristics reduced to zero) is not actual death but very serious critical wounds; the character would die in 1D6 minutes unless a successful
Medic/DEX/-4 task succeeds in stabilizaing him (failures could be retried but every attempt takes one minute and the character is going to die within 1D6 minutes; a Spectacular Success brings the character to Serious Wound level and allows recovery in an Aid Station or Default Ship Medlab; a Spectacular Failure KILLS the poor victim). Once stabilized, the character is in a deep coma and an unstable medical condition, and would die within 1D6 hours unless either transported to a TL12+ hospital or cryo-frozen. If cryo-frozen, the character could survive indefinitely as long as the low berth functions. At a TL12 medical facilityu, the character coiuld be thawed, and treated by a
Medic/EDU/-4 task (DMs for facility still apply).
Better equipment increases the chances of successful treatment. DMs for equipment or lack thereof are given below:
</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">EQUIPMENT* DM
No Medkit -4
Medkit 0
Aid Station/Medlab +2
Hospital +4
Equipment of TL10+ +1**</pre>[/QUOTE]* Serious wounds require a minimum of an Aid Station (or Ship's Medlab) to treat; Death Wounds are treatable only in a TL12 Hospital.
** In addition for the DM for the facility type.
