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[Runeska]

First Aid: Healing
Rank: "E" (5 Training Points at all Times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: This skill allows a character to properly tend to the sick and injured.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: While some basic medical knowledge is inherent in this skill (to the extent such can be said to exist), the character’s role is to provide an optimal environment to facilitate the patient’s own recuperative abilities, by monitoring the patient and tending to his needs as required.

• Novice: Diagnose; Tend to injured characters such that their wounds heal at a faster rate; critical care requires 10 minutes/wound; can distinguish whether an individual is dead or merely unconscious.
• Average: Stabilize a character knocked unconscious from trauma; critical care requires 6 minutes/wound; with a successful Average skill check to resuscitate a dying character.
• Advanced: Function as a midwife to deliver children; diagnose injuries; critical care requires 4 minutes/wound
• Expert: Properly set broken bones; amputate limbs; critical care requires 3 minutes/wound
• Master: Critical care needs 2 min. per wound

Look in Task Skills thread found in the Skills and Traits Index for more information. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---
+1 die able learner (2 dice per roll) + 1 sp per die (eccentric specialist medic+latin)
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It had been a few days now since the boy had last wondered about the forest after his scuffle with the bandits. Something in his mind hadn’t been right. He felt restless and not to mention sick. He stumbled on until eventually passing out. When he awoke he was in a small building that was well maintained. An old lady was tending to him. It seemed to be something like an old shaman’s house. She had taken care of him, taken pity on his sickened appearance. In return she asked him to help her out, as she tended to another worse injured man she’d been taken care of for a time.

His current task was relatively simple. The old shaman showed him how to check for vitals. He had to check certain areas for a pulse rate. The heart was the easiest. He could feel the heart thumping weakly in a mans chest. But she also showed him how to check the pulse either from the neck or the wrist. The neck was easiest for him. From her instruction, he was able to tell that the man who was laid on a makeshift bed was alive. He was also shown how to check to make sure that the man was breathing. Just what had happened to him though?

[Runeska]

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The man’s body was covered in thick clothe bandages. The old shaman lady removed another of them to reveal thick welts and discolored, flaky skin. Reddened blisters covered much of his torso and parts of his left side. These were burn wounds. There were also deep slash marks covering his arms and legs. She informed him that these were animal wounds from an attack. Apparently, he was fending off a bear and fallen into his camp fire, which frightened off the animal.

The boy went about cleaning the wounds the way that she instructed him to. Firstly, he had to pull and unravel the bandages. Many of them were stuck to the skin as it had tried to heal. Unfortunately with bacteria and such about, they’d get infected if they weren’t changed. In areas where the skin had gotten gooey or were slimy, he figured these were early signs of infection. The easy to see reddened and inflamed skin made that apparent. So the first step of the aid she asked him to deal was served, remvoing all the dirty bandages, so what was he to do next?

[Runeska]

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He had no memory to work with, and sense that was devoid of commonality, but he was capable of being instructed, so he watched as the old shaman got a wash bucket with warm water and used it to remove the puss from a section of his arm. It looked like something that would be exceedingly disgusting, and quite painful for the victim, but when it was his turn, he did the same. Oddly, he didn’t feel disgusted or disturb. It didn’t bother him at all.

First however, he had to clean and disinfect his hands. The shaman told him that since he’d just touched the old dirty bandages, he needed make sure the old germs and dirt couldn’t infect the now open wounds. When he finished, he put on gloves and as instructed, he began using the warm water to clean various wounds. He continued from where the old shaman had left off, clean the arm of puss. The skin felt bumpy and soft, and much of it flaked and came off while went to work. Nasty looking scabs flacked and peeled, and blistered busted every few time, prompting him to clean the rag numerous times.

[Runeska]

+1 die able learner (2 dice per roll) + 1 sp per die (eccentric specialist medic+latin)

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A few minutes into his cleaning. The shaman left, going out to search for herbs and stuff for her supplies. For the young boy, he had to continue cleaning the wounds. As he did, the man continued to lay there unresponsive, which to him seemed odd. Was the man in a deep sleep or a coma? Hopefully he wasn’t dead. How was he supposed to check vitals again? Right, pulse. To check that, he finished cleaning a portion of the arm and then set down the cloth he was cleaning pus with. He placed his hand on the man’s wrist and put enough pressure down so that he could feel the pulse passing through the vein. It was hard to catch, but it was there. That alleviated his concern. It’d be awfully creepy to be caring for a corpse as though they were a living being.

Getting a new cloth, the boy began cleaning the abdomen the same way. By clearing old away dirt and sweat, he was effectively moving away germs and increasing the chances that the man would recover, or at least live longer. He had his doubts on the main’s actual survival though. As he ran over numerous blisters, the skin began to peel away, revealing more puss. After about half an hour of this however, he was finished. For his labors, he was rewarded with the relatively clean looking appearance of all the wounds, but what was next? Surely, if he just wrapped them back, bacteria would grow, the wounds would get infected, then the man would die. What else was he supposed to do?

[Runeska]

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It was about 30 minutes after when the shaman returned with plenty of herbs and medical supplies. She seemed pleased with the work that he’d done. She explained after a while that her supplies were intended to inhibit bacterial growth and encourage regrowth of skin. Side by side, the youth and the old shaman would applied various herbal mixtures to the bubbled blistered skin till most of the body was covered with browns and greens of various shades. She then showed him how to wrap the bandages securely.


This part seemed relatively simple, but he found that when wrapping the bandages, if he did them too loosely they began to fall off. He tried to correct them by wrapping them tighter, tight enough that no movement was possible. However, when he did that, he was admonished. Apparently, if he wrapped them too tightly, it would restrict blood flow and airflow. That would prevent nutrient absorption from the salves, lack of total air flow would stop new skin from growing to the blisters. Eventually he found something of a middle ground that worked, and that’s when they moved on.

[Runeska]

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The days began to pass on pretty quickly.  The man who had been burned had not gotten completely better, but the old shaman had taught him quite a bit about treating injuries.  Any injury should first be cleaned as much as possible.  Any debris inside it should be removed to reduce possibility of infection from foreign objects.  Afterwards they should sterilized and wrapped with cloth or bandages.  If possible, creams and ointments should be used to delay the onset of bacteria and help the body speed up the growth of clotting and scar tissue. If a wound were open and bleeding due to damaged blood vessels, pressure should be applied to hold the blood in while the skin and clots formed. If there were not such bleading issues, then they should be allowed to vent enough to allow air in.



But he was taught more.  While cleaning the exterior of injuries was the primary importance, he was also taught how to feed and give nutrition to a patient when possible.  As it turned out, the body also fought infection and injuries from within.  So over the course of the days he fed the man.  It was much harder than what one may have thought.  He did not prepare the meals, but more often than not, when the man was conscious enough to eat he was wracked in pain and borderline in shock. However, when he was able to feed the man, elevate his body properly, and leave in comfort often enough, he began to see more improvements in his conditions.

[Runeska]

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+1 die able learner (2 dice per roll) + 1 sp per die (eccentric specialist medic+latin)

Sedating had to occur often enough.  Like the highly nutritious meals, the sedatives were prepared by the shaman with the boy watching in intrigued.  She told him that if she sedated the man so that he could rest soon after eating and being numbed by pain killers, the rest and lack of stress would speed his recovery.  At first she did these  things on her own, but soon found that the boy was able to manage it himself and even manage to not upset the patient as much.

It was through working like this that the boy learned and was allowed to stay with the hermit himself while recovering from his own inuries.  These consisted of many bumps, bruises, minor cuts, a black eye, and some inner bruises, or so she thought.  As he'd had bad hygiene prior to being found, some of those had signs of infection.  After she'd taken primary care of the infection, he'd learned that by pressing cold on to fresh bruises, inflammation would diminish.  Through the same means, he learned that something as simple as a heated moist cloth could help to brake up and heal clotting bumps under his skin.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Rolls

+35 TP. Learned 7 times.
+83 SP.