Treating Injuries
What to do if you get sick.
With all of the knowledge you may have about your body, it's still not easy to keep from getting hurt or catching a disease. Sometimes it's not necessary to do much about it, but other times every second matters.
Conditions
Each condition can have different severities. Usually they go from C1 to C4, with the C1 being the lowest and C4 the highest. Not all conditions go up to C4, but those details can be seen in the tooltip of each condition. Also, some conditions always start from C1, while some of them like trauma injuries from combat can start from C4. For every level of severity, the condition introduces new symptoms and the existing ones get worse.
IMPORTANT - A condition with a skull icon needs to be treated quickly or else it will be the cause of death.
Treatment Stages
There are 3 different phases in the treatment process and each has its own features.
Untreated conditions cause continous problems and they can increase in severity over time. That happens when the red bar fills up to the end. Also, if you have an untreated conditon, the "Health Tab" will blink in red color.
Conditions in the Stabilization phase need time to transition to the Recovery phase. They can revert to the Untreated phase if interrupted by strenuous activities. Symptoms of stabilizing conditions do not get worse with time. For example: bleeding injuries no longer cause blood loss.
While in the Recovery phase, symptoms of the listed conditions recede as time passes. Strenuous activities won't cause the recovering conditions to revert to previous phases.
Treating Injuries
The process is quite easy. First you need to select the condition you want to treat by clicking on it.
After doing that, a Selected panel shows up. Now you need to select medical items from the inventory or the vicinity. They will be highlighted so you can't choose the wrong items.
Once the bar that goes around the condition fills up, press the Treat button and the condition will go into the Stabilization phase. Higher Medical skill means lower amount of needed items.
It's worth noting that there is an item called Phoenix Tears, which can fix up any condition with a single use. It's hard to find, but it's worth it!
Infections
If an untreated wound is exposed to dirty clothes, or if an enemy with questionable hygiene (a puppet for example) causes the wound, there is a good chance the wound will get contaminated. If a wound is contaminated, it will have a special contamination icon.
A wound that reaches 100% contamination will get infected. An infection is a condition like any other and begins with C1 severity. When it reaches C4, it turns into a new, much deadlier, condition - Sepsis.
To treat those conditions, one can:
To disinfect a rag, select the disinfectant (it will have a red border around them indicating that it is selected), then press right-click on the Rags and select DISINFECT
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