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More Medical Guides

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This document does NOT constitute medical advice for humans. For human emergencies, please seek assistance from a certified terrestrial healthcare provider and learn CPR from accredited Earth institutions, because you can save a life (see Resuscitation Council).

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What is ABCDE?

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ABCDE is structured triage. It’s the quick, top-down assessment-and-intervention loop that lets you spot life-threats in order of lethality and fix them before they cascade into something catastrophic. You look, you think, you act, then you move to the next letter. Human healthcare providers may recognise the acronym, but this one is designed for your Gallifreyan specifically.

For Gallifreyans, the letters stand for:

1. Airway: Clearing and protecting the airway, dealing with obstructions, swelling etc.
2. Breathing: Stabilising ventilation and oxygenation, whether they’re hyperventilating, not ventilating, or quietly engaging respiratory bypass without telling you.
3. Circulation: Assessing perfusion, dual pulses, bleeding, colour shifts, and the general state of their cardiovascular presentation.
4. Dysfunction: Neurological and chronopsionic functions, including mentation, pupil response, time-sense drift, psionic overload.
5. Equilibrium: Pain, temperature, regeneration status, historical factors, and all the subtle background variables.

ABCDE should ideally be done in a controlled environment like a hospital. When the injuries are more dramatic (multiple wounds, uncontrolled bleeding, or anything that glows) and you have little to no resources, you’ll likely prefer the Comprehensive Trauma & Crisis Response (G-STORM) instead, which is ABCDE’s quick and dirty older sibling.

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ABCDE.pdf

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How to use ABCDE

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Before beginning your ABCDE assessment:

• ✅ Control any catastrophic bleeding first, following the Comprehensive Trauma & Crisis Response (G-STORM).
• ✅ Use Gallifreyan Assessment Scoring System (GASS) or Gallifreyan Paediatric Emergencies (G-PEAS) (for children) to get baseline vitals and stratify risk.

Then proceed from A → E, treating as you go, by first 🔎assessing and then making an 🛠️intervention.

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THE RESPIRATORY BYPASS, REGENERATIVE STATES AND THE HEALING COMA ARE DECEPTIVE. They will drastically reduce or completely stop normal vital signs. Ascertain if they are in any of these states before making interventions. If unsure, proceed anyway.

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Airway: Is their airway open and safe?

Step one in any medical emergency: make sure your patient can breathe. For Gallifreyans, this gets a little more complicated. Some may activate a respiratory bypass, which allows them to survive without breathing for short periods. So, no breath doesn't always mean they're not getting adequate oxygen, but unless you know what they're doing, treat it like an emergency.

Additional advice can be found in Gallifreyan Respiratory Emergency Protocol (G-REP).

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