“His neural engram structures are experiencing rapid total depolarization. Get me the dineurotrocacaline hypospray, quick!”
Man, making up nonsense Treknobabble is fun. 😏
As an emergency medical program maybe it’s the equivalent of an Army medic treating every complaint with 800mg ibuprofen and a bottle of water.
Came here to say this. It’s probably a drug that’s dead useful in a lot of cases (there’s a few of these today in emergency medicine), and so gets given a lot.
Technically, he did not?
next you’re gonna tell me he never finished high school!
Well, ackshually… :-D
Hmm, I thought the units were always cc (volume), but apparently in VOY/ENT, it was mg (mass).
Mass measurements are much more common in medicine than volume measurements in my experience.
I think it is the opposite for something ready to be administered. Sure, a certain mass of the active ingredient is suspended in a specific volume of an inactive medium like saline. But when a physician is ready to administer it, it is much easier to portion out the desired volume of medicine than to weigh it out. As long as the mixture has an established ratio of active ingredient to inactive medium, measuring out the desired volume should be quick and effective.
It could be that the inaprovaline hypospray they use has a ratio of 1mg per 1cc, and that everyone knows that. Meaning that one could say either “20 mg” or “20 cc” and they would be asking for the exact same quantity of the active ingredient.
I’m fresh off 15 years as a paramedic. It kind of depends on the context. If we’re pushing a fractional volume of a container (let’s say a 10 ml amp of epi 1:10000) then I might say “push 1 ml”, because it’s the easiest unit to understand in that moment (the amps are marked on the side in MLs). USUALLY, though, I would say/report that I gave 50mg of benadryl or 0.3mg of epi or what have you, because the mass dose of the drug USUALLY matters more than the volume of drug solution (in particular because you can have the same drug available in multiple concentrations or forms).
If that doesn’t work, it’s straight to reprogrammed Borg nanoprobes.
What’s wrong with a little assimilation, as a treat?
In universe it’s supposed to like strengthen cell membranes.
Since a lot of issues stem from cell membranes being pierced, damaged, etc. that should be fairly generally effective. Especially as a first step to try against an unknown.
I would guess it’s like us putting disinfectant on. “Are they even a doctor, they literally disinfect every wound”
Technically it’s just a targ dewormer.
It turns out that removing targ worms drastically increases your odds of surviving most afflictions and ailments, so it’s a standard practice for the EMH mk I for every issue.
The EMH mk II discontinued this practice but most crew members find him off putting and avoid him.
So how do the hyposprays work? Does it have a tiny replicator to produce the serum?
IIRC, there are quite a few episodes of Voyager showing the hypospray being loaded/reloaded with a cartridge. It’s unclear how many doses are contained in the cartridge, but typically more than one. I would think that for most treatments the Sickbay replicator just produces a ready-to-use batch of cartridges, whereas for more specialised medication the EMH has to actually make it up manually.
that shit amazin fam
