Description of TL9 Mini First Aid Kit

[Stoob]

I wrote this and thought I would share "just because". It's for a near-future TL8+/TL9 campaign and is the description for a 'mini' first aid kit available. Small enough to fit in a purse. $500, 1/2 lbs.

Contains two bandages with anticoagulant bionumb gel, combitox PainFree™ dermal injector, anaphylaxipro patch, ceramic tweezknife, sutcherbot and intravenous 125ml plasma infuser with anti-shock. Now also includes fever-reducing asthma-stim microinhaler!

[Gold & Appel Inc]

Sounds good, but that $500 price tag stings even at TL 9 average starting Wealth. There would definitely be a big(ger?) market for something that is this miniaturized, but less "fancy," for example omitting the automated suturing and maybe replacing the analgesic with a morphine gel-tablet, for people who want a somewhat-serious kit but are also very short on both space/weight capacity and budget, such as Boy Scouts and casual hikers, people who want something decent for the glove box but don't want to throw down hundreds on it, etc.

[The Colonel]

Might less serious users use a TL7/8 first aid kit and then allow TL9 primary care to make up the difference? Arguably most of the kit in our modern (TL8?) first aid kit is actually of much lower TL ... you could probably argue for TL6 in most kits, especially those that don't have any pharma component.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by The Colonel

Arguably most of the kit in our modern (TL8?) first aid kit is actually of much lower TL ... you could probably argue for TL6 in most kits, especially those that don't have any pharma component.

That is probably better represented as Cheap equipment (though the game-mechanical effects may need some clarification).

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by Stoob

... two bandages with anticoagulant bionumb gel ...

Why would somebody want anticoagulant bandages? The entire point of bandages is to promote coagulation! (And to keep dust out of the wound, granted, but you really, really don't want wounds to continue to bleed.)

[The Colonel]

And having thought about it for a bit (aside from the above potential mistake re. anti coagulants) - isn't that a lot of pharma and treatment for a first aid kit? Most first aid authorities that I've encountered actively discourage the giving of pharma to patients* (indeed, UK regulations for workplace first aid more or less forbid it), and likewise the idea of suturing ... until you've checked a wound is clean and clear, you don't suture, likewise until you are sure that you can treat the wound with a single closure, you don't suture. That seems like a lot of work for a TL9 disposable robot.

*This tends to be to avoid either 1) Amateurs poisoning the patient with inappropriate dosing or 2) Dosing given by first aiders interfering with trauma care. The military are an obvious exception - but then they tend to perform advanced first aid a long way from primary care. As my first civilian first aid instructor told me "civilians do not carry morphine, and we don't write on casualties" ... apparently she had had some bad experiences with people previously taught by HM forces.

[robkelk]

Agreed - on reflection, that package is what a doctor would carry "off-duty" (replacing the bandages that do nothing with better ones), not a first-aid kit. It still has a use, just not the one that Stoob envisioned.

In my part of Canada, civilians who stay in the cities are trained to perform Immediate Response without any kit whatsoever. We're also trained to use an AED unit if there happens to be one available (in Ottawa, there often is), but it isn't a necessary piece of equipment.

[benz72]

Originally Posted by Stoob

two bandages with anticoagulant bionumb gel

umm... perhaps two bandages with antiseptic hypercoagulating analgesic/anesthetic gel?

Also, for that price/TL I'd expect some kind of disposable sensor for vitals
Temp, BP, Heart rate, O2 level etc. with downloadable data storage for when the 'big guns' arrive.

[Phantasm]

Modern home first aid kit: A tube of antiseptic burn cream, a tube of anti-itching cream (for poison ivy rashes), several different sizes of bandages, a roll of gauze, and a roll of medical tape.

TL9, I expect the big difference will be in the quality of the antiseptic and anti-itching creams.

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by tbrock1031

Modern home first aid kit: A tube of antiseptic burn cream, a tube of anti-itching cream (for poison ivy rashes), several different sizes of bandages, a roll of gauze, and a roll of medical tape.

TL9, I expect the big difference will be in the quality of the antiseptic and anti-itching creams.

If you're willing to spend a little money, you could replace the bandages, gauze, and tape with bandage spray for much improved performance.