The USS Prometheus Sickbay

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The Prometheus Sickbay

	Information	A number of viewscreens located around the bay provide LCARS data and in addition display information on the ship's function and status.
	Office Space	A small office area at one end of the provides the medical officer with an area away from the biobed in order. The desk enables the medical officer to carry out his medical administrative duties while at the same time providing him with line-of-sight observation of his patients. Unlike on Voyager, the sickbay is open plan and the office is not partitioned off.
	Outer Ring	A narrow corridor runs around the outside of the sickbed which means that the biobed is enclosed so that nothing need disturb the patient nor the medical officer treating them.
	Patient Care	The ship has one biobed (compared to Voyager which has three plus one main diagnostic biobed). The biobed, an examination and whenever necessary an operating table, is positioned on a raised circular platform underneath the primary ceiling illumination.
	Pharmacy	Drugs can be prepared for use within sickbay, within easy reach of the biobed. The pharmacy is a small workstation which consists of a bench above which is a wall-mounted control panel and display, and a small desk area. Drugs carried aboard as a matter routine include the anaesthetics neurazine (which can be administered in gaseous form), axinol and anaesthethine. Device to the left of E
	Overhead Illumination	The main source of light is built into a circular dais-type feature which extends downwards from the ceiling above the main operating and examination table. The design is deliberate, in order to provide the medical officer with direct and focused lighting on the patient.
	Direct Access	The medical bay can be entered from a number of sliding doors located around the exterior corridor, which enables the area to be accessed quickly from all directions. Sickbay is itself, as per standard Starfleet design, located close to the most populated and/or most used areas of a starship in order to be readily available if needed.
	Support	The overhead light is the highest point of an arc formed by a number of upwardly sweeping support buttresses, attached to angled pillars around the exterior walls.
	Workstation	Located close to the biobed, this workstation incorporates a monitor on which medical or ship's information can be displayed, a level surface to the right of the monitor for putting things on, and to the left of the monitor two LCARS-interface control panels incorporating the usual Starfleet touch-sensitive buttons. Not visible due to angle the drawing is shown from Jefferies tube hatch The primary Jefferies tube access door is located directly to the left of the main workstation.

SHIPWIDE HOLO-EMITTERS
The ship was constructed with holo-emitters on every deck, enabling the ship's medical officer to travel and attend personnel wherever he might be needed throughout the ship.
The ship's main computer incorporates a transceiver which enables it to receive an optronic datalink and, I conjecture, presumably depending on the nature of the Starfleet signature contained within it, initialize it where needed e.g. if the signature is that of a Starfleet medical hologram it would be downloaded directly within sickbay. It is also likely that the sender of the signal would be able to embed within it a direction-indicator for the carrier wave.

Ironically, the first patient to be treated in sickbay was a Romulan officer, one of a 27-strong boarding party which killed all the Starfleet crew and stole the ship [#82 Message in a Bottle]. The Romulan commander, Rekar, planned to hand over the prize-ship, not to the Romulan government as originally planned, but to the Tal Shiar, the Romulan secret police.
Only the effort of the Voyager EMH and Prometheus' EMH thwarted the Romulan scheme and returned the ship to Starfleet control.

THE EMH MARK 2
The EMH which USS Prometheus carries aboard is the EMH Mark 2, designed by Dr Lewis Zimmerman after the failure of the Mark 1 (which is what Voyager's EMH is) to be accepted by people.

The Mark 1's failure was not due to its medical skills but due to its perceived lack of a good bedside manner - it became a joke that "EMH" stood, among other things, for "Extremely Marginal Housecalls" [#144 Lifeline].

EMH Mark 2 and EMH Mark 1
By the time of the EMH Mark 1's encounter with the EMH Mark 2 in 2374, the Mark 2 was still a prototype and had not even been field-tested. Although the Mark 2's personality subroutines had been improved compared to the Mark 1's, apparent failings would seem to be its tendency to become flustered and irritable during non-medical crises, and its initial desire to stick to the letter of Starfleet regulations no matter what.

However, encouraged by the Mark 1, the Mark 2 showed initiative when the Mark 1 was captured, by simulating a shipwide bio-hazard which triggered the opening of the ventilation vents, thereby allowing the Mark 2 to introduce aneurazine gas into the ship and anaesthetize the Romulan occupying force.

The Mark 2 requested download to it of the same subroutines that had enabled the Mark 1 to have sexual relations: "Let's just say," said the EMH Mark 1, "that I made an addition to my program." However, we do not know if that enhancement was ever added to the Mark 2 when the time came for the Mark 1 to depart and return to Voyager.

The Mark 2 resembles a human as closely as possible. Even breathing is simulated.

PICTURES OF SICKBAY

Sickbay viewed from above.

Sickbay looking over the pharmacy section (front left) towards the biobed.

Behind-right of the Doctor can be seen the medical officer's office area - a desk with a large wall-mounted control and information display panel.

In the foreground: desk from the other side.

Medical instruments. The thrombic modulator is the cone-shaped device.
Below shows all the Medical equipment named.

Workstation close by the biobed. It incorporates a display monitor.
Ship's systems can be accessed from this station, depending on the authorization level of the user.

Close-up of the monitor - in [Message in a Bottle] the Voyager EMH used this particular monitor to try and find out about the ship he is on.

Foreground: Part of the biobed.
Background: When multi-vector attack mode is in operation, certain wall-panels designed to indicate ship's status flash on blue and off. Presumably when red alert is sounded the walls flash red on and off.

Close-up of the pharmacy workstation.

There is a PADD in the centre towards the top. In the medical lab area in Voyager's sickbay, the console there also contains a PADD, situated within the main lab console for easy access and removal as necessary.

Both the images and the info that created this page cam from the following Webpage,

http://www.voyager.fsworld.co.uk/ep82prom.htm

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http://www.voyager.fsworld.co.uk/ep82prom3.htm