They are much more abundant around ships compared to to fibrinozine but are much less effective. DON'T: Use defibrillator as the be all and end all solution to every ailment. This means using a defibrillator like this reduces the dying crewman's survival chance because you are just damaging them more.ĭO: Use defibrillator as well as CPR when the patient is deprived of oxygen. This is, without a doubt, completely useless because the chances are they are bleeding and the defibrillator does not increase health or reduce bleeding. However what I often see is medics arriving to the scene of someone bleeding out, and their first instinct is to start shocking them with the defibrillator. It deals minor damage to those it shocks but this is generally negligible.

To my knowledge, the defibrillator is only used to treat oxygen deprivation and (It also reduces stun duration and is effective at helping treat overdoses, thanks Chiko) It's benefits last 12 seconds and it's best used in conjunction with CPR (note its effects don't stack so unless using it as a weapon, don't spam it). I thought I would start off with this as I see many people use this wrong. This makes the HUD a very situational tool, but not a useless one.ĭO: Scan players in the event of an outbreak and if you suspect someone of being disguised. It also displays whether the person is infected with the Calyx parasite, and how severe their infection is. One being that the HUD displays the actual name of the player you are looking at, so if they are disguised you will be aware of their true name. However I also see medics never use it, and this could partly be because diagnosing a patient is mostly common sense (I will come back to this later) but the HUD has other uses too.

Using it all the time is bad as it reduces communication with the crew as you don't have your headset on. This is a great tool in the medics arsenal but I often see medics never use it or use it all the time. So I thought I'd share my knowledge to others who may want to know of it. To start things off, I am bound to get some things wrong, I am still fairly new to this game and some of this is guesswork, if I do make mistakes correct me.įrom watching people play Barotrauma and playing the game myself I've seen many people playing Medical Officer incorrectly in the way they treat their fellow crew, and in some cases are worsening the chances of the wounded's chance of survival.

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