Medical:
The Medical Department aboard the Starbase provides health care to the base's crew and visitors, and provides medical solutions to a wide variety of problems encountered during missions. The Department consists of several intensive care wards, a laboratory, the Chief Medical Officer's office, surgery suites, therapy facilities, biobeds, a surgical support frame. The Chief Medical officer aboard oversees the entire Medical Department and coordinates a staff of several medical assistants. The Chief Medical Officer has the ability to, if required, remove any crew member, including the Captain, from active duty if s/he finds his/her physical state to be unstable. (To remove the Captain, s/he must have the support of the Chief Counselor).

EMERGENCY MEDICAL OPERATIONS

Pursuant to Starfleet General Policy and Starfleet Medical Emergency Operations, at least 40% of the officers and crew of the Excelsior class are cross-trained to serve as Emergency Medical Technicians, to serve as triage specialists, medics, and other emergency medical functions along with non-medical emergency operations in engineering or tactical departments. This set of policies was established due to the wide variety of emergencies, both medical and otherwise, that a Federation Starship could respond to on any given mission.

The recreation deck and lounge on deck 15 along with the VIP/guest quarters on deck 2 can serve as emergency intensive care wards, with an estimated online timeframe of 30 minutes with maximum engineering support. Further, the shuttle bay has 5 mobile hospitals that can be deployed either on the flight deck, or transported to Cargo Bay 2 or 3 for emergen cy overflow triage centers. Cargo Bay 3 also provides for the emergency atmosphere recalibration to type H,K, or L environments, intended for non-humanoid casualties. All facilities are equipped with full Bio-hazard suites, to minimize and prevent crew exposure to potentially deadly diseases.

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