User:Datamatt/Brainmed Guide

Holy shit, how does brainmed work?

Good question. It's actually pretty simple once you get it down. Humans don't die when they hit an arbitrary amount of damage - instead, they die when their brain dies for good. The basic principle of brainmed is that all organs work towards keeping the brain alive. Except the eyes... and appendix.

Burn and brute damage are now the sum of the damage on all limbs! Stop thinking of damage as a singular variable! It's not that way anymore. Oxygen damage and toxin damage have also been changed.

Toxin damage now determines TOTAL ORGAN FAILURE. The more damaged organs are, the more toxin damage a person has. YOU CURE IT BY FIXING THE ORGANS. It's no longer a measure of toxins.

Oxyloss damage is now basically suffocation. You cure it by getting the blood oxygenation higher. More on that below. How does the brain die?

The brain dies when it remains without oxygen for a bunch of time. There are a lot of causes: hearts that have stopped (aka, in asystole) don't pump blood, so the brain can't receive oxygen. Broken lungs can't supply the blood with oxygen, so oxygen won't reach the brain either. If there's no blood, the brain... can't receive blood. Those are the core 'checks' of this system: keep the brain alive, keep the heart pumping, keep the lungs working and make sure there's blood. What is asystole and how does it happen?

Hearts can stop for a number of reasons. High shock, severe heart damage or a very fast pulse. The former 2 are self explainatory. The latter depends on a lot of factors - some chemicals (caffeine or adrenaline and many others) raise the pulse, others lower it. When the brain demands more oxygen due to a lack of it, of course the heart will start pumping fast. And of course, if the heart pumps WAY too fast, then it'll have a chance to outright stop. When that happens, CPR has a chance to restart the heart. Make sure to keep them alive for it and fix the cause. No, you don't need breaths, just the compressions will work. You are unlikely to succeed in CPR alone.

What do chems do?

Some chems were changed. Inaprovaline was renamed to norepinephrine and viceversa. Medical spawns with norepinephrine now, and it serves to stabilize the heartbeat. Remember this, it's important. - Dexalin and Dexalin+ fool your brain into thinking your blood is oxygenated (50% and 80% respectively, seriously that's good)

- Dylovene no longer heals toxin damage BUT it removes actual toxin reagents from your body and heals slight amounts of liver damage.

- Toxins now try to destroy the liver. After that, they'll go on to the kidneys, and then on to destroy other organs.

- Alkysine only works on an oxygenated brain.

- Peridaxon heals very slight amount of brain damage only if the brain isn't bruised.

In addition remember that the stomach is an organ now - it handles nutrition and ingested chems. Holy shit the crew monitoring console changed, how the fuck do I tell who's doing what now?

Simple. You don't. There are no hard damage stats available on the CMC anymore. Instead you now get access to pulse and BP. - Pulse: This is really just their pulse. If it's high it means their heart is trying to pump a LOT of blood. Caused by severe blood loss or severe oxygen damage or just chems that boost heartbeat.

- BP: This string in the oxy monitor will show blood pressure and blood oxygenation. Very self explainatory. The less blood there is, the less blood pressure there is. The less oxygen there is in the blood, the less blood oxygenation there is. Make your judgement calls with this info.