| From: | Vincent Pellerin <Vincent.Pellerin@***.GMC.ULAVAL.CA> |
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| Subject: | First aid vs healing |
| Date: | Fri, 14 Apr 1995 18:50:36 -0400 |
about first aid vs magical healing put me in the mood to talk about my
conception of these process in the SR games .... enjoy ...
Magical healing
The treat and heal spell must have a double role in the process of
healing, using two principle i shall call aura integrity and regeneration..
Regenaration
This is the process wich actually repair the damage done to the
humain body, explained as cellular procreation. This is mostly a natural
process, only the speed is increased by the magical process. But some
problem arise during the use of this process... For one the presence of
foreing object in the organism of the wounded (mostly bullets), this process
would enclose them in the organism causing some long term problem (ex: lead
poisonning from bullet, infections from paricles, et.. ). Two, the uncorrect
positioning of the wouded tissues and organs. Healing a 5 centimeters gaping
wound can't be accomplished by the organism alone, something must help in
getting the sides of the wound togheters. A Bone broken is not usually in
the good position to be welded back unless helped by a doctor. Two parts of
an artery need to be put together before it is sealed. For this whe need
the next process to take place before the spell regenerate..
Aura integrity
The humain body "produce" an aura, the more essence the body have
the stronger it is. When the body is wounded, the integrity of the aura is
compromised and it is ripped around the edges of the wounds. The spells
usually use the aura to close the wounds by strenghtening it, the aura will
then tend to close its gaps, by repercussion closing the wounds on the body.
It will eject the foreing auras (bullets)and put back in the original
positions all of the "displaced" organs and parts. Thus it makes the
process of regeneration easyer by putting the skin, membranes, bones, blood
conduit,muscle fibres and all other organs in their working position on a
scale only dreamed by street docs, leaving the organism the minimal amount
of sell to
regenarate. The scaring is thus minimal, the "drain" on the part of the
wounded very slim, and the time needed very short. Without immediate
tratment the aura will eventually "accept" the gaps as the cellular
regeneration take place, and thus complicate the matter somewhat (from there
the need of the heal spell beyond the golden hour).
First aid
The priority of first aid is to stop the deterioration of the
patient condition, usually it involve stoping blood flows out of the body,
the agravation of wounds by the movement of disabled parts, keeping the
vital functions in action (breathing, blood circulation et.) and possibly a
lot of other things. But, in the world of 2055 things are differents, the
biotech skill seems more used to put people back in action. The step would
be like this..
1-Put the wounded parts together to stop bleeding, the agravation of the
condition, keep the vital functions in actions.
2-Use some of the miracle drug and equipement of the 2055 era to repair the
damage and put the man back in action. Using drugs to increase the metabolic
regeneration rate, coagulation process and reduce the effect of pain.
As we can see the processes are a lot more similar than they would
appear. And they are not so exclusive as we could think. In effect the
first part of the first aid (bandaging wounds, setting bones in positions,
cleaning wounds) is a real helper to the aura integrity phase of the magical
healing process. The aura as less work to do putting the parts backs as the
majority of the work was done in first aid, only the "precision work" remain
to be done. The second part is a little bit more touchy as some of the
regeneration process as already taken place. But since the body already
begun the process, the spells will only help, the aura integrity will not
take place, the regeneration will be used to the fullest. The patient
subject to both healing method risk a greater scaring then with magic only
but it is a small price to pay.
Using the magical healing first is the different part, as the first
phase of first aid cant be better than the spell aura integrity phase and
the second will bring marginal help if any as the regeneration as already
taken place to the best of the organism.
Note: this is only a extrapolation of what should take place, i have no
medical knoledge and i have taken into consideration that the "physical
condition monitor" represent a global state of the body (trauma, pain, operating
capacity and the possible death of the character).
Does this look logical ?
**off topic**
I recently had a traumatic experience, we lost power around saturday
morning and the deamon did not reboot correclty, i lost a lot of mail, could
not send anything before today. I did manage to get some of my mail back
(420 message all at once, then pc crashed, OUCH) and look some of the rest in
the archives on the net. I was then deleted by Dr. Doom. I am not happy :-(
but i'm back in the game. What's EDGE RUNNER ? What else did i miss ? Oh,
and P Ward's "Renegade guns mods" was great but i dont think i have it all :
there was the first part, then the second (with recoil comp) and then
cyberware, plus a couple of descritpion posting did i get it all ?
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