Surgery

A Guide to Surgery In General

All surgery requires the set of medical tools in the Operating Theatre, along with an operating table. Ideally, only Surgeons and the Chief Medical Officer can perform advanced surgery. Remember to let each step complete fully, else you risk harming yourself or your patient like playing dangerously and want to ace that surgery.

Ghetto Surgery

Don't. It's not worth it. No one wants to see blood, guts, and a sweaty physician trying to extract an appendix from someone on the bar table.

Surgical Tools

Surgery tools aren't common and are pretty much only found in the operating rooms.

The following are the standard surgical tools most doctors will need:

Standard Tools:

• Scalpel
• Hemostat
• Retractors
• Circular saw
• Cautery
• Bone gel
• Bone setter
• Surgical drill
• Medical mask
• Anesthetic tank
• Autopsy scanner
• Sterile mask
• Latex gloves
• Advanced trauma kit
• Nanopaste

Advanced Tools:

• Incision Management System
• Boneclamp
• Laser scalpel

Infection

Place on gloves and wash your hands before every surgery. Failure to do so will result in giving your patient an infection which, if left untreated, can be deadly. Apply ointment to the afflicted areas quickly if you fail to wash your hands before starting surgery. Make sure to clean your tools after every surgery as well with a spray bottle of either space cleaner or sterilizine

Prepping for Surgery

Please ensure that your patients are properly diagnosed and scanned in a body scanner before starting the operation, and that all medications and personnel needed for the procedure have been prepared.

1. Find a suitable operating table.
2. Make sure you're wearing latex gloves and a sterile mask.
3. Ask the person to strip, or clickdrag them onto your body and click on all of their items to remove them.
4. Grab the person and click on the operating table to lay them down on it.
5. Check the Operating Computer to ensure the patient is positioned properly; if the monitor does not show the patient's vitals, the surgery will not work.
6. Pick up a medical mask and sleeping agent.
7. Clickdrag their body onto yours to view their inventory. Place the medical mask on their mask slot and the tank of nitrous on their back.
8. Clickdrag their body onto yours once again to refresh the window. A new option called Set Internals will appear towards to bottom. Clicking it will turn on the anesthetics after a short while.
9. Examine the patient until it reports that they are unconscious.
10. Make sure you're set on the Help intent.
11. Use a sink to wash your hands. Unclean hands can result in an infected wound. This is treatable with ointment.

NOTE: If anyone is pulling on the patient, the surgery will not work properly! Make sure no one is pulling the patient!

Surgery List

There are many different types of surgeries that can be performed. Sometimes it will be necessary to have the patient hooked up to an IV or someone on standby to inject medications during the procedure.

Opening a Surgical Site

The first steps of most surgeries.

• NOTE: Steps 3-5 can be replaced with one use of an IMS if one is available to you.

1. (Optional) Complete Prepping for Surgery.
2. Aim for the location in the Damage Zone.
3. Use the scalpel to create an incision.
4. Use the hemostat to stop any potential bleeding.
5. Use your retractors to lift up the skin.

For internal work in chest and skull only:

1. Use the bone saw to cut through the bone.
2. Use your retractors to move the bone aside.

Closing a Surgical Site

The final steps of most surgeries.

1. Aim for the location in the Damage Zone.

If you had to use the bone saw earlier (chest/head):

1. Use your retractors to put the bones back into place.
2. Apply bone gel to mend their ribcage/skull unless the bone was fractured during the sawing phase, in which case, conduct bone repair before continuing.

Then after the above (or if it was not required):

1. Use the cautery to seal the incision.

Bone Repair

The mending of broken bones and fractures.

• NOTE: Steps 3-5 can be replaced with one use of a Boneclamp if one is available to you.

1. (Optional) Complete Prepping for Surgery.
2. Perform Opening a Surgical Site.
3. Apply bone gel to the broken bone.
4. Use the bone setter to put the bone in place.
5. Apply more bone gel.
6. Perform Closing a Surgical Site.

Facial Reconstruction

The fixing of facial and vocal deformaties.

1. (Optional) Complete Prepping for Surgery.
2. Aim for the patient's mouth - not head - in the Damage Zone.
3. Cut the skin with your scalpel.
4. Use your hemostat to mend their vocal cords.
5. Use your retractors to put the skin back in place.
6. Cauterize the wound with the cautery.

Internal Bleeding

Repairing damaged arteries and veins within the body to stop internal bleeding.

1. (Optional) Complete Prepping for Surgery.
2. Perform the steps in Opening a Surgical Site.
3. Use the FixOVein to repair the damaged blood vessels.
4. Perform the steps in Closing a Surgical Site.

Appendectomy

Removal of an inflamed appendix.

1. (Optional) Complete Prepping for Surgery.
2. Aim for the patient's groin in the Damage Zone.
3. Perform the steps in Opening a Surgical Site.
4. Use your scalpel to cut out the appendix.
5. Use your hemostat to extract the appendix.
6. (Optional) Dispose of the newly extracted appendix.
7. Perform the steps in Closing a Surgical Site.

Limb Replacement

Replacing missing limbs with new ones.

1. (Optional) Complete Prepping for Surgery.
2. Aim for the patient's affected (missing) limb using the Damage Zone.
3. Attach the appropriate limb, either mechanical or organic.
4. Use the hemostat if the limb is organic to reattach tendons and muscles.
5. Use a trauma kit if the patient requires one (may need to be applied to either the new limb, or the 'parent' body part it was attached to).
6. Ensure the patient is able to manipulate their new limb before releasing them.

Internal Organs Osteopathy

Mending damaged organs such as lungs, liver, and brain.

1. (Optional) Complete Prepping for Surgery.
2. Aim for the chest, groin, or head in the Damage Zone.
3. Perform the steps in Opening a Surgical Site.
4. Use the appropriate mechanism to mend the organ:
   • Advanced trauma kit for organic organs
   • Nanopaste for synthetic organs
5. Perform the steps in Closing a Surgical Site.

Cavity Surgery

Putting things inside peoples' body cavities, such as NIFs.

Maxiumum size of item that fits inside:

• Head - tiny (i.e. pen, paper, NIF)
• Abdomen - pocket-size (i.e. most surgical tools)
• Chest - small (i.e. bone saw, revolver)

1. Aim for the chest, abdomen or head in the Damage Zone.
2. Perform the steps in Opening a Surgical Site.
3. Use the surgical drill to prepeare cavity.
4. Insert the item inside. If it caused internal bleeding, use FixOVein to fix it.
5. If you decided not to put item inside, use cautery to mend cavity wall.
6. Perform the steps in Closing a Surgical Site.

Implant/Shrapnel Removal

Removing implants from the body. Also removeal of things from body cavities.

1. (Optional) Complete Prepping for Surgery.
2. Aim for the implant location on the Damage Zone.
3. Perform the steps in Opening a Surgical Site.
4. Use your hemostat to extract the implant. This may take several tries.
   • Note that there is a brief period where nothing happens after you click on the patient with the hemostat. Use this time to click on the patient multiple times to queue up multiple attempts at removing implants
5. Perform the steps in Closing a Surgical Site.

Alien Embryo Removal

Removing hazardous parasites from the body.

1. (Optional) Complete Prepping for Surgery.
2. Aim for the chest in the Damage Zone.
3. Perform the steps in Opening a Surgical Site.
4. Use the hemostat to remove the alien embryo.
5. Perform the steps in Closing a Surgical Site.

Organ Removal/Transplantation

Removal and re-insertion of the brain or other organs

1. (Optional) Complete Prepping for Surgery.
2. Aim for the organ's location in the Damage Zone. (Head for brain/eyes, chest for heart/liver/lungs, groin for appendix/kidney)
3. Perform the steps in Opening a Surgical Site.

Removing an organ:

1. Use the scalpel. This will open up a window asking you which organ you'd like to cut loose.
2. Use the 'hemostat. This will open up a window asking you which loose organ you'd like to remove.
3. Dispose of the organ or store it in a freezer. For Borgification, place the brain in an MMI and give it to a Roboticist.

Inserting an organ:

1. Use the organ you intend to transplant on the patient.
2. Use the FixOVein to reconnect the organ to the body.
3. Administer a advanced trauma kit or use the nanopaste if required, to repair any damage received during transport/transplantation.
4. Perform the steps in Closing a Surgical Site.

Organs may become infected after transplantation. Do not transplant organic organs that are no the patient's, otherwise they will be rejected and the patient will soon die.

Head Reattachment

Reattaching a severed head for simpler resleeving.

1. Acquire the cadaver and its head.
2. Aim for the cadaver's head in the Damage Zone.
3. Use a retractor to peel back the flesh.
4. Use the FixOVein to shape the esophogal and vocal region.
5. Use a hemostat to staple and suture back the flesh.
6. Use the cautery to adjust the area around the neck.
7. Use the severed head to reattach it to the body.

Necrotic Limb Repair

Fixing limb necrosis caused by septic infections. Not organs.

1. (Optional) Complete Prepping for Surgery.
2. Aim for the necrotic organ in the Damage Zone.
3. Perform the steps in Opening a Surgical Site.
4. Use the scalpel to cut away the dead flesh.
5. Use a dropper filled with Peridaxon to revive the necrotic organ.
6. Perform the steps in Closing a Surgical Site.

Autopsy

Examination of cadavers to find cause of death. See autopsy prodedures for more information.

1. Place cadaver onto the operating table.
2. Aim anywhere in the Damage Zone.
3. Cut the skin with your scalpel (the chest may require two cuts).
4. Use the autopsy scanner to scan the area.
5. Repeat scalpel and scan procedure for all affected areas.
6. Right click the autopsy scanner to print out autopsy data.

Hardsuit Removal

Cutting the seals on a sealed hardsuit so that it can be removed from the person wearing it.

1. Place the patient or cadaver onto the operating table. Cleanliness is not required.
2. Aim for the chest in the Damage Zone.
3. Use a plasma cutter, welding tool, or circular saw to slice the hardsuit seals open. This may take several attempts.
4. Pull the hardsuit control module off their back.

Secret of the Trade

While playing SS13 you may notice that as long as you stand still and remain on the same hand, you can perform multiple actions simultaneously, and surgery is no exception; as long as you don't swap hands, you can quickly operate on multiple areas of a patient's body by using the numpad to target limbs and clicking immediately. For example:

• A patient has two broken bones - one in his right hand, the other in his left leg - and internal bleeding in his lower body.
• Press 4 on the numpad twice to target the right hand and click with a scalpel in hand (or IMS if you have it), then immediately press 3 on the numpad to target their left leg and click, then press 2 on the numpad to target the lower body and click.
  • This will queue up three operations about as fast as you can target and click and they will all complete at roughly the same time if you're fast enough. Note that the operations must complete before you're allowed to move and/or switch hands.
• Target the right hand again through the same method with the hemostat in your other hand. Target the other areas through the same method and await for all three to complete.
• Repeat the above for queuing up retracting the skin.
• Use the Fix'O'Vein on their lower body to patch up the internal bleeding, as it is the most important.
  • The following three steps can be done instantly with a boneclamp.
• Queue up using the bone gel on the right hand and left leg. This should only be two clicks in total, and shouldn't concern the lower body.
• Queue up using the bone setter.
• Queue up using the bone gel.
• Target and click the right hand, lower body, and left leg with the cautery to seal up all incisions.

Congrats, you're probably one step (or many, even) ahead of the rest of the surgeons.

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