MEDICAL FACILITIES

There is one large sickbay facility located on Deck 5, equipped with an intensive-care unit (ICU), biohazard support, critical care, a morgue,  the chief medical officer's office, a load-out of three standard bio-beds and one surgical bed in the main ward, and a small medical laboratory. The standard medical staff consists of a doctor and a nurse, supplemented by the Emergency Medical hologram,  the Fortuna being one of the first to be equipped with this new medical technology.

The Intensive-care Unit

Three bio-beds line the walls of sickbay's ICU; these are for patients receiving medical care and are equipped with bio-function monitors.  Located in the corner of the main ward is a surgical bed, where major surgeries are performed and critical patients are treated. A large, sophisticated sensor cluster is installed in the ceiling directly above this bed. Working with a medical tri-corder, the sensor suite can give detailed information about a patient's condition. The bed is also designed to use a surgical support frame. The small area that the surgical bed is located in can be isolated by a force field.  If necessary, surgery could be conducted in the intensive care ward if there were an overflow of patients or if another patient is present to donate blood.

Located in the center of the sickbay facility is the chief medical officer’s  office. Here, the CMO is provided with an area to work in privacy or conduct meetings with patients, staff, and others. Its proximity allows the CMO to be present in sickbay practically immediately. Located behind this office is a small medical laboratory facility. The medical staff or other associated personnel can monitor experiments or run tests here during their duty shift. Just off the medical lab is located a tiny area for storage of the deceased.