Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Sharah Fayth (Medical Officer) in side-sim: This Feels Familiar (TAG Mika)

Posted by Lieutenant Tandra Mika (Chief Medical Officer) in side-sim: This Feels Familiar (TAG Mika)

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Mika nodded. Skin and muscle conditions weren’t her specialty, emergency medicine was. She knew little about either of the two conditions. “Let’s have them run that test, and while they do that, we can do the EMG.” The muscles would need to be retrained, she was sure that would be bad news to Stehla.

~ Lt Mika, CMO

Sharah nodded, “I’ll get the imaging suite ready. You want to run the scan Lt? Play with the new equipment?” Then she went to take another blood sample and had Nurse Elbbirt run it down to the lab while she prepped the EMG.

Fayth, med

Mika grinned, unable to help feeling excited like a child on Christmas morning. “I would be happy to run the scans myself.” She said, standing from her desk. Mika went out to tell Stehla the results, what they’d found and what that meant for Stehla. Then she explained the test they needed to run. Finally, she ran the EMG scan. As excited as she was to get to use the new equipment for a legitimate purpose, she put on a professional face for the patient.

~ Lt Mika, CMO

Stehla grunted. “You do what you gotta do, Doc. As long as you fix it.” Wearily she got up and followed into the imaging suite where she immediately drapped herself on the bio bed, closed her eyes and waited.

Test Results:
Additional Blood tests ruled out the presence of other disorders and infections resembling Polymyositis and confirming the diagnosis.
Electromyography (EMG) (Norm: no electrical activity while at rest. Muscles also react normally to stimulation, in a smooth pattern) No electrical activity at rest. Reaction to stimulation shows choppy and misfired or missed electrical impulses.
nerve conduction velocity studies (Norm: between 50 and 60 meters per second) 37 mps

Stehla K’tolvog

The test results were what Mika predicted. She had a nurse take Stehla back to the regular biobed and then she prepared a treatment plan: Steroids, over the course of a week, would treat the rash, a round of antibiotics for the infection, it would be about a week and a half of taking those with strict instructions to finish the course, and then she’d set Stehla up with one of the ship’s physical therapists to help with the muscle weakness. Once she had the doses calculated, she went to tell the patient the results and news.

~ Lt Mika, CMO