Doctor's Guide

In this guide, I will be extensively covering just how to restore damaged, broken, rotten and sometimes even dead bodies in Lifeweb. This guide will be most appropriate/useful to you If you're playing the fate of a Serpent or Esculap as i will be going through things like surgery which other fates/classes/roles simply cannot do (successfully) due to lack of skill/stats.

I will start out with simpler things and then progress into more obscure territories.

First Aid
This is important for both doctors and average players to learn. First aid in the Lifeweb can generally be boiled down to:
 * Stopping bleeding
 * Stopping sources causing said bleeding, AKA angry bums with switch-blades

While there are many different kinds of bleeding, we'll be focusing on the "external" ones for now. Here are the most common scenarios either you will be facing yourself or another player seeking your help. Heart-attacks can be a little complicated (depending on the cause) as what happens with them first is the heart gets a BPM of 180-190+. During this, the player will get a prompt saying "Oooh.. My Heart!" before he'll get knocked unconscious indefinitely. This will last for a few minutes (depending on the overall health-state of the patient) which makes it relatively easy to treat if intercepted early but shortly after, the heart will stop all-together and with that, the player enters the "Knocking on Death's Door" state where he will suffer massive oxygen damage as all blood stops flowing. The body and all It's parts will also start their timers to begin rotting (although this will obviously take quite a while) that won't stop as long as there is no pulse. To treat this condition, shocking (if possible) with the Redemption Xell needs to be done in combination (swapped in-between or at the same time if there's more people that can help) with CPR chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth, the latter being particularly important as the major damage & overall cause of death from heart-attacks/no pulse is suffocation-based.
 * Stopping & Treating heart-attacks
 * 1) Did a guy (or you) just get sliced by a dull kitchen knife or by a weak sword in the leg? Expect minor anatomical damage and surface skin bleeding that can be stopped completely with a bandage, small chance for an infection.
 * 2) Did a guy just get stabbed cleanly once in the head with a switch-blade, AKA bum? Expect anatomical damage and a deep bleeding wound with a solid chance for an infection and perhaps even brain damage. He will need sutures using a surgical needle, disinfectant (gotten from the Esculap's personal house in the keep or bought from the Sanctuary vendor for roughly 20-30 obols usually) and bandaging.
 * 3) Did an idiotic blacksmith forgot about managing his hydration & stamina levels and entered cardiac arrest after trying to make some bad quality copper dildos? Grab a nearby Redemption Xell (Portable Defibrillator) and shock him repeatedly until you can no longer do so. This will (often) stabilize the patient long enough for him to regain consciousness and panic-drink water. No water means that more heart-attacks will follow and he will die. Sometimes though, CPR may be necessary (chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth) to fully stabilize both the heart and the patient.

Advanced Care
Moving on from First Aid comes the more complicated part of doctoring. Let's begin it by talking about the different states that bodyparts & limbs can have. First up, Infections! Why are they significant?

If a bodypart is not promptly disinfected using surgical disinfectant after an injury has been sustained on it, it will (depending on the injury/what instrument was used to cause it) get infected and after that, things will only worsen in this order:
 * 1) INFECTED: A hand is infected followed by a stab-wound inflicted by a switch-blade wielding bum. The stab-victim will get some text prompts like "My hand is festering!" to signal the progress of this. The hand is bandaged and left ignored.
 * 2) ROTTING: The hand will continue to fester until the flesh itself will begin to rot. At this point, the hand will become unusable and if left to fester even further, the rot will spread upwards to also have the arm It's attached to begin rotting. Contrary to popular belief, rot CAN be treated but It requires Embalming Fluid which only the Mortus (Lifeweb building) have. The most common treatment in the Sanctuary is to simply amputate the limb affected with it. If It's the chest or head your patient is fucked unless he gets Embalming Fluid injected very quickly. This is rarely done however as rot progresses fairly quickly into..
 * 3) NECROSIS: At this point, the hand (and very likely the arm & chest It's attached to) is beyond saving. If you have a patient with this, you've either fucked up very badly by not disinfecting whatever wound he had. This state is basically a limb or body-part being extra rotten for a while before eventually just turning into nothing but bone.