Human Medical Care Information for Cybertronians

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How to care for Humans

Written up by Riley Kiina Haile & Researched by Autobot CMO Ratchet

Emergencies

Major Injury:

Common sense tells us that a person with a broken leg or large chest wound deserves immediate attention. Emergency facilities exist to take care of major injuries. They should be used promptly.

No Pulse or Breath:

Again, someone whose heart or lungs aren’t working needs help right away. Call for help. If you know Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (also known as CPR), start it after you have called for help or direct someone else to call.

Unconsciousness:

The person who is unconscious needs emergency care immediately.

Active Bleeding:

Most cuts will stop bleeding if pressure is applied to the wound. This is the most important part of first aid for such wounds. Unless the bleeding is obviously minor, a wound that continues to bleed despite application of pressure requires attention in order to prevent unnecessary loss of blood. The average adult can tolerate the loss of several cups of blood with little ill effect, but children can tolerate only smaller amounts relative to their body size.

Stupor or Drowsiness:

A decreased level of mental activity, short of unconsciousness, is termed “stupor.” A practical way of determining if the severity of the stupor or drowsiness needs urgent treatment is to note the victim’s ability to answer questions. If the victim is not sufficiently awake to answer questions concerning what has happened, then urgent action is necessary. Children are more difficult to judge, but the child who cannot be aroused needs immediate attention.

Disorientation:

In medicine, disorientation is described and measured in terms of time, place, and person --- that is, according to whether the person can answer these questions correctly:

What is the date?
Where are we?
Who are you?

A person who doesn’t know his or her identity is in more trouble than a person who doesn’t know where he or she is, and that person is in more trouble than a person who can’t give the correct date.

Disorientation may be part of a variety of illnesses and is especially common when the person has a high fever. The person who previously has been alert and then becomes disoriented and confused deserves immediate medical attention.

Shortness of Breath:

We discuss shortness of breath more extensively in its own section. As a general rule, immediate attention is needed if the person is short of breath even though resting. However, in young adults the most frequent cause of shortness of breath at rest is the hyperventilation syndrome, which is not a serious concern. Nevertheless, if you can’t confidently determine that shortness of breath is due to hyperventilation syndrome, then the reasonable course of action is to seek immediate aid.

Cold Sweats:

As an isolated symptom, sweating isn’t likely to be serious. It’s the normal response to elevated body temperature. It’s also the natural response to stress, either psychological or physical. Most people have experienced sweaty palms when “put on the spot” or stressed psychologically.

In contrast, a “cold sweat” in a person complaining of chest pain, abdominal pain, or light-headedness indicates a need for immediate attention. It’s a common effect of severe pain or serious illness. Remember, however, that aspirin often causes sweating in lowering a fever. Sweating associated with the breaking of a fever is not the cold sweat referred to here.

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Ratchet has also asked me to mention that any 'bot that spots the following human that they bring him back to the Med Bay since we caught him on the security Camera's escaping from Ratchet as he was about to do standard check on him and the other humans on base for the records, the US Government and the British / Australian / New Zealand Government respectively.

Many thanks to those who are helping with the upkeep of the Med Bay rules that Ratchet has written down on a plaque in the Med Bay for all to see - in All Languages, Human and Cybertronian!

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Hey there, Cali here to upload some of the data on Human Medical for Cybertronians that Riley and ratchet are doing - Riley is taking a short reprieve from this due to stress, also known as Ratchet! *ducks low flying wrench* Sorry Ratchet!!
Anywho on with the next installment for you of Cybertronian Heritage.

Emergencies

Severe Pain:

Surprisingly, severe pain by itself rarely determines if a problem is serious and urgent. Most often, pain is associated with other symptoms that indicate the urgency of the condition. The most obvious example is pain associated with major injury - like a broken leg - which itself clearly requires urgent care. The severity of pain is subjective and depends on the individual; often the magnitude of the pain is altered by emotional and psychological factors. Nevertheless, severe pain demands urgent medical attention, if for no other reason than to relieve the pain.
Much of the art and science of medicine is directed at the relief of pain, and the use of emergency procedures to secure this relief is justified even if the cause of the pain proves to be minor.

The Seven Keys to Health

Good news! There are only seven major ingredients in a plan for good health.

Diet
Exercise
Not Smoking
Alcohol Moderation
Weight Control
Avoid Injury through Common Sense
Professional prevention practices

In fact most individuals don’t even need to worry about all seven areas.
You’re probably already a non-smoker.
Quite possibly your body weight isn’t too far from where it needs to be.
Probably you already do some exercise, and probably you already have some good dietary practices.
Probably your alcohol intake is already moderate.
Most likely you already take some measures, such as using your automobile seat belts, to reduce your chances of serious injury.
And you probably work with your doctor to have some of the periodic screening tests that you need.

Exercise

Exercise is the central ingredient of good health. It tones the muscles, strengthens bones, and makes the heart and lungs work better.
It increases your physical reserves and your vitality. Exercise eases depression, assists the function of the bowels, leads to sound sleep, and aids I every activity of daily life.
Exercise helps prevent heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and many other diseases.

The three types of exercise:

Exercise comes in several different flavors.
There are strengthening exercises, stretching exercises, and aerobic (or endurance) exercises.
You need to know the merits and limits of each type.

Strengthening exercises:

These are the traditional “body-building” exercises the build stronger muscles. Squeezing balls, lifting weights, and doing either push-ups or pull-ups are examples.
Strengthening exercises are only one part of a beneficial exercise program, however.
These exercises can be very helpful in improving function in a particular body part after surgery (for example, knee surgery) where it’s necessary to rebuild strength.
They also help to strengthen your bones, since bones react to stress by becoming stronger; they can help strengthen bones even at advanced ages.
It should go without saying that you should never use anabolic steroids or any other drugs as part of a strengthening program.
By doing so, you may damage your future health.

Stretching exercises:

These are designed to help keep you loose.
These are a bit more important; everyone should do some of them, but they don’t have many direct effects on health.
Be careful though not to overdo these exercises.
Toe-touching, for example, should be done gently, without bouncing.
Stretch relatively slowly, to the point of discomfort and just a bit beyond.
Stretching exercises can be of great benefit in these situations:

If you have a joint that’s stiff because of arthritis or injury.
If you’ve just had surgery on a joint.
If you have a disease condition that results in stiffness.

There’s nothing mysterious about the stretching process. Any body part that you can’t completely straighten or completely bend needs to be frequently and repeatedly stretched; a good rule is twice a day. Over weeks or months, you can often regain motion of that body part.
For most people, however, stretching exercises are useful mainly as a warm-up for aerobic (endurance) exercise activities.
Gently stretching before you begin aerobic exercise is important for three reasons:

It warms up the muscles.
It makes the muscles looser.
It decreases the chances of injury.
Stretching again after the aerobic exercises can help prevent stiffness.

Aerobic (Endurance) exercise:

This is the key to fitness and vitality. This is the most important kind of exercise. The word “aerobic” means that during the exercise period, the oxygen (O2) that you breath in balances out the oxygen that you use up. During aerobic exercise, a number of good things happen.

Your heart speeds up to pump larger amounts of blood.
You breath more frequently and deeper to increase the oxygen transfer from the lungs to the blood.
Your body develops increased heat and compensates by sweating to keep your temperature normal.
You build endurance.

As a result of endurance exercise, the cells of the body develop the ability to extract larger amounts of oxygen from the blood. This improves the function of all cells in the body. As you become more fit, these effects increase.

The heart becomes larger and stronger and can pump more blood with each stroke.
The cells can take up oxygen more readily.

As a result, your heart rate when you’re resting doesn’t need to be as rapid. This allows more time for the heart to repair itself between beats.
Aerobic exercise is important for all ages. It’s never too soon to develop the habit of lifetime exercise. It’s never too late to begin an aerobic exercise program and to experience the often dramatic benefits.
There are of course, a few difficulties in beginning a new exercise program. If you’ve been reconditioned by avoiding exercise for a some time, start at a lower level of physical activity than a more active person would. You may have an underlying medical condition that limits your choice of exercises; if so, ask your doctor for advice about exactly how to proceed.

Heart Rate:

Much has been made of reaching a particular heart rate during exercise, a rater that avoids too much stress on the heart and yet provides the desired training effect. Cardiologists (Heart Specialists) often suggest that a desirable exercise heart rate is 220 minus your age times 75%. For example, at age 40 your target exercise heart rate is 180 x .75 = 135 bpm (beats per minute.)

It can be difficult to count your pulse while your exercising, but you check it by counting the pulse in your wrist for 15 seconds immediately after you stop and multiplying it by 4.

As you continue your training and it progresses, you may wish to count your resting pulse, perhaps in bed in the morning before you get up. The goal here (if you don’t have an underlying heart condition and aren’t taking any medication such as propranolol, which decreases the heart rate) is a resting heart rate of about 60 bpm. An individual who isn’t fit will typically have a resting heart rate of about 75 or so.

Well Riley just came in laughing soo she must be doing better especially after she showed me this:

"Look, mentally I'm older than Lincoln, emotionally I'm six years old, physically I look like I'm in my twenties, my hormones are going top speed, and I'm something evolved from a slug evolved into something evolved from an ape. And YOU got the nerve to say YOU'RE confused?!?"

Kayagh, Renegade Stage 5 Invid, ROBOTECH

No trees were harmed in the creation of this e-mail; however, an undisclosed number of electrons were diverted from where they originally wanted to go...

Guess the Major twins do cheer people up - especially those they like! *get's slapped by Riley* OWWW!!!! Alright I'm sorry!! But it was a good e-mail on their part Ri.

Well time to get this posted and remember Laughter is esential for humans to feel well and happy!!

Peace Out to all,

Cali signing off.

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