MED-LAB 3
In reply to Carmen Reed (msg # 61):
Hawkeye enters on a mission. "Give him 2 units of blood, get him intubated and prepped. I want full scans by the time I get in there, I want him on a bacckboard with a second so we can turn him once his chest has been closed. Lets move people death doesn't take a holiday and neither do we." Her armor is quickly shucked and tossed in her locker, a surgical apron is donned, as her uniform under is soaked through with O'Higgin's blood. Coming out she looks at the scans as one of the techs pulls her gloves on, "I don't like that pulse injury near his spine, we're going to work on that last." she says to the med tech assisting her. Directing her attention to O'Higgins "This is going to take a while hope you didn't have plans later," she says to the unconscious patient, taking a deep breath. "Scalpel." She calls as the implement is popped into her hand firmly. She sets to work, focusing on removing bits of shrapnel and debris, along with embedded rounds from the various weapons discharged at the Hillite leadership. She is carefully to move O'Higgins as little as possible to avoid potentially damaging his spine any more than may have already happened. "Suction." She calls clamping off a persistent bleeder, and the searching the area for the offending fragment. As she removes bits of metal, she also repairs damaged tissue plugging holes in arteries and veins, reconnecting muscles, and reconstructing where necessary. As she finishes she does a resection and sterilization of the abdomen to remove a part of the small intestine that had been nicked by a round. Once complete she decides to close using dermafoam to fill the wounds, and then dermaplast to seal the surface.
Wrapping the freshly treated injuries she directs the medtechs to place the second backboard on the front of O'Higgins strapping him to both boards like a sandwich. Once secured she has the medtechs carefully flip the patient over taking care not to further cause his body to shift. After flipping they carefully remove the board on his back allowing Hawkeye to carefully clean the injury, she can already see the effects of the serum Garrat had allowed her to use. More offset than the original scan had displayed, she is able to easily clean the wound, and treat it with little issue. She drops the forceps on the tray calling for dermafoam and gauze to close the back injury. Due to the fact that spinal damage had been avoided, O'Higgins takes another turn in the back boards and his chest injuries get re-examined before getting sent to the recovery ward, with orders for heavy antibiotics and hourly reports.
After O'Higgins had been taken out Hawkeye leans against the wall taking off her gloves and mask taking a deep breath. It felt like she'd spent the last two weeks at work without a break. She checks a wall clock, and realized she'd been in surgery for nearly three hours. "If there's no one else to be treated, finish clean up and get some rest." she directs the techs who were already starting to reset trays and clean. She heads out into the main medlab area to check on the status of things.