01-24-2023, 08:25 AM | #21 |
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Re: Medieval first aid name?
Hi
What about Field dressing?
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01-24-2023, 08:27 AM | #22 |
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Re: Medieval first aid name?
Ah but thats a hunting term too. Ak!
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Oliver. |
01-24-2023, 08:33 AM | #23 |
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Re: Medieval first aid name?
I think someone up thread used the term "wound care".
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01-24-2023, 10:19 AM | #24 |
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Re: Medieval first aid name?
Prior to TL5, there really isn't all that much - other than treatment of wounds fairly shortly after they are inflicted there just aren't very many times when surgery is either helpful or worth the risk. Other than cataracts (which was moderately safe), and bladder and urinary tract stone removal (which had like a 50% chance of killing you from infection) there weren't all that many other surgical procedures out there for anything other than wound traumas.
Well OK, I guess boring holes in your skull to let out evil spirits counts, but it doesn't actually cure anything.
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01-24-2023, 10:29 AM | #25 |
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Re: Medieval first aid name?
Unless of course there are evil spirits. However that'd be Esoteric Medicine (in a world where Esoteric Medicine is effective)
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01-24-2023, 11:00 AM | #26 |
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Re: Medieval first aid name?
There are medical conditions for which trepanning would be a legitimate treatment, typically ones associated with certain head wounds, and apparently a lot of trepanned Neolithic skulls are found in regions where weapons that would deal such trauma were common. So saying it doesn't cure anything isn't quite accurate. As a surgery to correct "wrong" behavior that is attributed to the presence of evil spirits, however, it probably isn't of much use (outside of settings where there are evil spirits that can be drawn out this way, of course).
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01-24-2023, 11:06 AM | #27 | |
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Re: Medieval first aid name?
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01-24-2023, 11:50 AM | #28 |
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Re: Medieval first aid name?
I'll need to check my copy of it when I get home, but I believe Bio Tech indeed does have amputation using the Surgery skill. Of course, I think bone-setting might use Surgery as well, when that really seems more like First Aid / Physician to me (setting a clean break anyway - more complicated breaks may well require a proper surgeon to get all the bits back where they need to be and immobilizing them; GURPS doesn't really have a means of distinguishing between types of fractures).
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01-24-2023, 12:27 PM | #29 |
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Re: Medieval first aid name?
Lasting crippling wounds can represent simple fractures. Compound fractures are permanent crippling barring TL6+ Surgery.
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01-24-2023, 03:26 PM | #30 |
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Re: Medieval first aid name?
Nah. A compound fracture is only worse than a typical one because the bone has punctured the flesh. The resetting process is essentially identical but post treatment involves an open wound in addition to bone-setting.
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