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==Healing Wounds==
* Dice Pool: [[Pool::Dexterity]] or [[Pool::Intelligence]] + [[Pool::Medicine Skill]] + equipment
* [[Action]]: [[Action::Extended]] (one success is required per [[Healt]]h point of damage suffered; each roll represents one minute of work (first aid) or one hour of work (long-term hospital treatment))

Application of the healing arts can help restore a patient's lost Health points. Treatment can occur in the field through first aid or in a doctor's clinic or ER. While medical treatment can stabilize a patient or alleviate his pain, it isn't usually capable of miraculous cures or recoveries. That requires time and rest on the patient's part, and prolonged care.

[[Pool::Dexterity]] + [[Pool::Medicine Skill|Medicine]] may be rolled in the field or
ER, while [[Pool::Intelligence]] + [[Pool::Medicine Skill|Medicine]] may be rolled in a lab
or operating room, where science and technology does
much of the work of healing injuries.
* [[Dexterity]] + [[Medicine Skill]] is rolled when a patient is dying while being cared for.
* [[Intelligence]] + [[Medicine Skill]] is rolled once a patient has been stabilized and can undergo long-term care.

Achieving sufficient successes (equal to the total,
overall Health points lost by the patient) restores one
Health point lost to bashing damage, in addition to any
healing that the character already does under his own
power. A patient may regain no more than one "extra"
Health point by this means per day. Alternatively, a patient
who's bleeding to death or in a coma is stabilized if
one success is achieved on the roll. (The loss of Health
points to aggravated damage each minute is stopped; see
"Incapacitation,"<ref>[[World of Darkness Sourcebook]], p. 173</ref>).

===Intensive Care===
Round-the-clock, intensive care diminishes a patient's injuries, downgrading the nature of wounds by one degree. Thus, a lethal wound can be downgraded to bashing, and an aggravated wound can be downgraded to lethal. Such treatment can occur only in a hospital or other intensive-care facility. This kind of treatment always focuses on the worst of the patient's injuries first. '''Note that this treatment does not eliminate wounds. It simply minimizes them.''' A patient must heal downgraded injuries completely by himself or receive other treatment to eliminate them.
* An extended [[Intelligence]] + [[Pool::Medicine Skill|Medicine]] roll is made.

{{info}} Each roll requires an hour.

{{info}} The number of successes required is five for a lethal wound

{{info}} The number of successes required is 10 for an aggravated wound

{{info}} An aggravated wound is downgraded to lethal before a lethal wound is downgraded to bashing.

{{info}} No more than one wound can be downgraded per day of treatment.

==Application==
* '''Required By:''' {{#ask: [[Prerequisite::{{PAGENAME}}]]}}
* '''Used By:''' {{#ask: [[Pool::{{PAGENAME}}]]}}

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West at 21:24, 1 April 2016

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