Posted by Lieutenant Alexis Bonner (Assistant Chief Medical Officer) in Main Sim- SB Infirmary (new thread)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Ever Zeanar (Chief of Psychiatry) in Main Sim- SB Infirmary (new thread)

Posted by Lieutenant Alexis Bonner (Assistant Chief Medical Officer) in Main Sim- SB Infirmary (new thread)
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Alexis walked by him at that point and scrunched her nose up at the smell. She looked him over and then stepped back. “We need a specimen jar, specimen que-tip and a want a protective coat and face shield.” She got them from a nurse and put them on. She knelt down and took a sample of the vomit still on the shoes of Dr. Walker. She handed the specimen container to Jenyfer after making sure she had her protective equipment on. “See what you can make of this.”

Jenyfer nodded in thanks for the clearances. “Well, I would normally say that quiet and rest or even sedation would be the best course. But in light of so many, in so many places, all with the same delusion. Unless the ship had an Alison in Wonderland night last night, there is something more going on. What do you all think of us putting them all together in the book’s setting and seeing how they react? In a single room we can contain and control them and if need be flood the room with a knock out if it turns sideways.” She wasn’t keen on the idea, herself. And she hadn’t realized the mistake in the book’s name. But she did know this was more than an isolated incident. With all these folks affected in separate places, different ranks, and sexes, the delusions should have been unique to each individual.

Jenyfer
Virologist

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

Alexis looked over to the screen again to see if the tricorder readings had finished being processed to see if there was anything that might indicate a cause from the scans she had done. “Computer run a scan of the station. Look for any substance, organic or inorganic that could cause psychotropic effects.”
Lt. Bonner, AMO

Accepting the specimen, Jenyfer went to one of the few stations not being used and did a quick check on the substance from someone else’s gut. She would check for anything that would help suggest this was an ingested substance that was affecting the others. If there was no evidence, then skin contact, inhalation and injection were the next checks on the list. “Let’s see what we have… how did you get in my patients, little bug?”

Jenyfer
Virologist

The poor over worked computer thought for a long time as the various scans did there thing and the results returned. Briskly the feminine voice responded back to the doctors:

“Commander Walker has a large amount of fungal cells in his lungs. The blood work indicates a large amount of the same fungal spores in his blood. Lastly the air circulation system detects a large growths in the ventilation shafts.”

GM Wombat

OOC: pulling from the scans she did on the promenade
IC: The computer beeped from the results of her tricorder readings. “The captain and those who are with her are showing signs of a fungal infection,” Alexis announced loud enough for everyone in the medical bay to hear. “We need to start pulling whatever we have on hand for antifungals.” Her first reaction was to start running a level 1 scan for fungi around the starbase but she wanted Jenyfer’s results first.
Lt Bonner, AMO

Just then a Bajoran women in the teal uniform of a Starfleet medical officer with two full pips on her collar walked into the infirmary. Her copper hair was tied back in a neat ponytail, leaving both her earring and the faint white scar running from her right temple to her right ear clearly visible. Walking briskly over to Bonner, she asked by way of on introduction. “What happened? Can I assist you in some way?”

~Lt. Tija Aizala, Doctor (med leave)

Alexis backed up a step. “Protective gear first. It seems we have some kind of fungal contaminant on board the space station. We need to find ways to neutralize it.”
Lt. Bonner, AMO

“Of course,” Tija replied simply and without another word got protective gear and quickly donned it, before heading over to the assistant CMO.

Jenyfer shook her head at the hollered discovery of the spores. Coming back to the small cluster, she shook her head. “Same here. Spores present in lungs and blood.” She glanced at Aizala and smiled. “I’m Jenyfer Lynset, the new Virologist. I don’t believe we’ve met yet.” She didn’t offer her hand, but held up the protection gear by way of an apology. “And I think,” she glanced to the others, “that if this is in the air system we need to start finding the smallest concentrations and work backwards, isolating and treating the least infected. The ones at ground zero have reached max saturation at this point, and starting with them will compromise more on the lesser end. Agreed?” She looked around at those gathered and wondered just how big of a holodeck they were gonna need when this was all said and done.

Jenyfer
Virologist

“Lieutenant Tija Aizala,” she replied with a bow of her head. “I am new as well. I specialised in Emergency Medicine and Trauma Surgery.” While all of that was true, she felt no need to inform either of them that she was officially on medical leave. After all, she still wasn’t entirely convinced that she needed to be on leave. Not to mention that they could use every doctor available right now. So she kept that tidbit about herself private and instead listened closely to the virologist’s analysis and action plan; nodding here and there, but saying nothing.

Alexis nodded, “Get started on that. We need quarantine sickbay. Get it running on it’s isolated ventilation system. That way we can make sure the medical staff at least stays clean. We need the bio suits too for anyone going out. Obviously some people have a natural immunity to it. Anyone coming in has to go through decontamination first. And in case the spores are relentless then we need to have each bed set up as it’s own isolated space.”
Lt. Bonner, AMO

((Shall I make another Main Sim thread seeking out the CE and working our way thru the ship to shut things down and isolate folks?))

OOC: You could probably just do a crosspost with the merchant area since that is where the CE is.

GM Wombat

Looking from Bonner to Lynset, Tija said in her direct, somewhat curt way, “Having arrived on the Starbase only yesterday, I’m not familiar with the layout and everything yet. I don’t want to slow us down or worse cause more work by not knowing where I have to go. What is the best way to be of assistance?”

~Lt. Tija Aizala, Doctor (med leave)

Alexis began to laugh. The absurdity of this whole situation. “I’m…I’m sorry. Do you know how absurd this is. I only arrived 2 hours ago. Half of us are brand new and have no access and no clearance. The other half are spread out, and then the rest of the crew is affected by this. Jenyfer’s annalsys shows it is probably air born, so we need to get full biohazard suits on. Jenyfer can you take what you’ve got from that sample and make some kind of inoculant for it? We also need to find where this is coming from and kill it. It’s going to be slow work for all of us. The XO is on the way. For now let’s get the bio suits out and start setting up each biobed area as a self quarantine. Someone needs to set up the decontamination area for people to go through when entering the med bay.” Alexis had not expected to be giving orders so soon after arrival, but there it was. To stress her point, she moved to the biobed closest to her and began setting it up as a containment area. “As soon as we get the containment ducts checked for sickbay we’ll activate the containment protocol.” No need to turn it on if the fungus was in their duct work.
Lt Bonner, AMO

“Actually, the medical department should already be on it’s own system for air and life support from the rest of the station. That’s a standard safety protocol for this reason. Just put up a sally port effect for containment. Enter first space, get decontaminated and then enter into the bay. Should be a command already set up for it, just need to activate it, ” Ever said as she squeezed into her suit that seemed nearly a size too small. Taking a seat at the closest terminal, she checked to make sure the ventilation system in the medical department was self contained. While she waited for the answer, she began running tests on herself. “I suggest we all check ourselves and make sure none of us are infected. Won’t be much good if we are all as crazy as that lot too.”

Zeanar, CoP

Alexis nodded acknowledging her error. “I’d still like to wait to completely seal off sickbay until we know for sure the system and sickbay are clean.” Alexis put on her suit and then started taking samples from each of the crew. She labeled them all as she went and then handed them to Jenyfer to analyze. “Let’s see if we are all okay, then we’ll worry about the rest of the crew. Jenyfer, take whoever you need to help you run those samples and work on something to help the crew.”
“Thank you Cmdr Zeanar. I’ll admit to being some what off balance. This is not what I was expecting and I should have realized the system was already working by default.”
Lt. Bonner, AMO

“I think we’ve all been caught off guard with this,” Mariah offered to Alexis, turning to don her own suit, “but as a team, I know we can get a handle on this,” she added with an encouraging smile. Thinking of the earlier suggestion to put those infected into an Alice in Wonderland themed holodeck program, she then said, “Normally, I would advise not to do or say anything that reinforces the delusion, but we should keep the holodecks in mind if we can’t get a handle on things quickly, provided it can be contained there, if only to reduce agitation. Of course, it’s risky, as we can’t be sure the delusions won’t change for one person suddenly without warning.”

Grayson offered a smile and a nod of acknowledgement to the newly arrived medical officer. The scar was not lost on Mariah, and Grayson was curious, but couldn’t indulge it at the moment. “I’m happy to assist in the set up or I can do what I can to keep the patients calm. Just point me where you need me.”

~Dr. Mariah Grayson, Psychiatrist