PTiberiusM Posted March 22, 2020 Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) Uncle Barcus' Pharmacy of Odds & Ends - A Chem Guide First, I was inspirationally bullied into making this by VisVirific's amazing guide. You should check that out. It's a pretty cool list, and this guide is actually inspired by: Not wanting to do that much work My own ways of getting the same thing done in a different sequence. So off the bat, I want to say that his guide is probably more "optimal". This guide is more "thrifty". You know those docs that measure all medications in doses of 15 units a shot and throw the sink at every nosebleed and boo-boo? This is the guide for telling those docs and paras to use those meds in effective, non-wasteful methods. Some CMO gets on you about it? Talk about NT budget savings. So, let's get into how to give them everything they need and maybe some stuff they didn't know they wanted. The Big Changes from VisVirific's Guide: The Basics Spoiler So, generally the guide gets it right, but... its a lot. Here are the recommended reductions: Bicardine: Just put 2 in the fridge. If they take them out, put 1 more in. If you have a big staffing that round, maybe put 4 in because everyone wants some. Remember that you need to make Bicardine for the Peridaxon. If you make the recommended amounts from their guide, you will need to make a minimum of 7 bottles of Bicardine! That's an entire NanoMed's stock of Norepi. KeloDerm: If you grab the pill bottle of Dermaline at the start of the round (Medication closet next to the reception desk, on your way to Pharmacy), you can use those to make the KeloDerm. If you make 60 units of Kelotane (30 Carbon, 30 Silicon) you can just drop 4 pills into the beaker and... boom, you have 2 bottles of KeloDerm already made. There are enough pills to make 3 bottles of KeloDerm and still have a pill left over. If you make 3 bottles of KeloDerm this way, you save 30 Acetone, the holy grail of Chemistry. I typically just make 2 bottles of KeloDerm. The bandages, ointments, and TriCord that first responders put in patients typically makes KeloDerm last ages. Dexilin Plus: QUICK! Run to the medical supply closet on the main level and grab both of the oxygen kits! The autoinhalers in those kits have a total of 40 Dexalin in them! You can drain them into a large beaker, add 40 Carbon and 40 Iron and there is 120 units of Dexalin Plus. Now, refill all of those autoinhalers, slap a label on the box saying they are upgraded, and drop them on the medical lobby desk. That still leaves you with 80 units of Dexalin Plus. That's 1 of the 2 bottles to put in the fridge. And, you might ask, "Hey, that doesn't seem like a lot?", remember that they have 8 autoinhalers in the lobby to use. That leftover 20 units? Use it to make the 1 bottle of Adrenaline you need to make. Peridaxon: This is the most expensive and time consuming medicine that you could make. Honestly, the "One Pot" method that VisVirific has is pretty good. Here is mine: Get 20 units of Dexalin, add another 20 Water and then 20 Acetone, pour in 10 units of Phoron from your handy Phoron beaker/bottle you should have next to you, 30 Sodium, bottle the Clonexadone, 30 Sodium, bottle the Clonexadone. There is the Clone you need. Just make 2 bottles of Bicardine (60 Norepi, 60 Carbon), and drizzle them together. It means you are pulling things out of machines and stuff, but I find it idiot proof. But the main reduction: Make 4 30 unit bottles. Oh boy do people hate that shit. Then remind them that Peri OD's at 10 units and the Surgeon is going to drag the patient into surgery while you were loading the hypo anyway. Tell them to play nice with each other and share Robert Barcus' Cryo Mix For Fun & Profit Spoiler In their guide, VisVirific states that he makes 3 bottles of Alkysine. I typically make 1 or none and people leave Medical with full brain functions all the time. Why? Well, Sec officers didn't have much to start with anyway, but that is because I use Alkysine's bigger, stronger, but far less known older brother: Mannitol. This shit is fantastic, you should use it all the time. Here is the sequence for the Barcus Cryo Mix: Grab the three beakers off the desk at the start. Pour one of them into the other. So you have one empty, one filled with 30 units, and one with 60 units. When you get to the lab, the 60 unit/filled beaker into a large beaker. Add 10 units of Phoron (one default pour) to this large beaker. Like my Peridaxon recipe, take that large beaker and 30 units of Sodium, bottle the Clonexadone, 30 units of Sodium, bottle the Clonexadone. Set these 2 bottles of Clonexadone off to the side In a separate beaker (I like to steal the grinder one, it gets on Neith's nerves ?), add 10 units of Phoron, then make 30 units of Alkysine (you can make it with the phoron in, its fine) Remember those three beakers? Two of them should be empty with one beaker having 30 units in it. Now pour 10 units into each of the empty beakers from the one with 30 in it. Should be 10 units in each of the three beakers now. Take your dropper, set it to 1 unit, and now take 1 unit from EACH beaker and drop it into the beaker that has your 30 units of Alkysine and 10 units of Phoron. This is why you have to divide it up first. And with bubbling magic, you will now have 30 units of Mannitol. Take those 2 bottles of Clonexadone that you made, split it into the beakers (40 units per beaker) and then top off with 10 units of Mannitol per beaker. This should give you 3 beakers of 59 units of Barcus' Cryo Mix. Go put them in the cryo tubes and tell people to take a bath if they have brain damage. Now, it is of my humble opinion that Alkysine is a great emergency tool. But heed these words: Alkysine only works if blood oxygenation is above 85%. If your patient has many of the problems most patients do, you will need Dexplus, Inapro, Peridaxon, TriCord, painkillers, and IV blood-infusion to get them north of 85%. And if you have all of those into a patient, and they aren't spraying blood on the walls and into your eyes... they are stable enough to take a cryo bath. Even if they are bleeding, cryo slows all metabolic rates by a factor of 10, meaning they lose blood at 1/10 the rate they would outside of cryo. And Mannitol in cryo? It works even better because 1 unit in the tank becomes 10 units in the body, able to heal 100 points of brain damage. That means just a few seconds in cryo, enough to put the drugs in the system, could almost completely heal an extremely damaged brain. And it can cure some trauma's too. Including colorblindness! So, before some Surgeon screams about needing to clamp that bleeder STAT, remember: 30 seconds in cryo is only 3 seconds out of cryo. It would take more than 3 seconds to run them to the OR and turn on the table. Chill. Breathe. You have time to do this. You have time to take a chilly, brain-healing, body repairing bath. So, yeah, don't make three bottles of Alkysine. Maybe one. Only if it gets the other docs off your back. The Big Changes from VisVirific's Guide: The Specialized Spoiler This is the section where you can save lots of time. VisVirific makes some great stuff here in his guide. You don't need almost any of it: Alkysine: We have discussed Alkysine above. You did read the Cryo Mix section, right? Imidazoline: For when damage to eyes occurs and the doctor didn't just hit them with Peridaxon already. This is in the same category as Adipemcina. It is just a worse Peridaxon. Just make it on demand in small amounts if demanded to. Ethylredoxrazine: See Imidazoline. Very rarely needed, make it on demand if it comes up. This drug is simple enough that if you see the radio callout about a drunk being rushed to medical, you will probably have the dose ready before they are out of the scanner. HyroArith: Cool idea, you will see some of my goofy mixes down below. I have my own anti-rad mix that I make. It is almost never used. If you see an announcement about a rad-storm, just make a 30 unit bottle of Hyronalin and toss it in the fridge before you head to the tunnels. Ryetalyn: Don't make it, cloning is off the station, and that is all it was good for. In the event that you need it to fix a mutation not caused by cloning, remember you only need 1 unit of Ryetalyn to cure everything. Thetamycin & Deltamivir: I make 2 bottles of Theta and 2 bottles of Delta because I am lazy. You whip up 120 units of Crypto, split it into two large beaker, pour a bottle of Dylo in one, a bottle of TriCord in the other, and there you go. 99% of the time no-one will touch them. Especially now that they make you throw-up (Theta) and have a passout-grade fever (Delta) that medication can't even bring down (BUG MAYBE?). You could get away with not making these, but just know how to make them. And, the Medication Closet that you stole the Dermaline pills from also has Theta in it. So you really could get away with never making these. Scrubber Cases: Rare but vicious, chances are the victim may have already processed all the nasty stuff in their lungs by the time they get to medical. Make this on the spot if you have to. This is another super rare occurrence that you should treat like Ethylredox. If you see the radio callout after a warning about scrubbers, this can be whipped up into the inhaler cartridges before they are out of the scanner. Just remember to cut it with Dexalin(Plus) and Peridaxon because it will mess up their lungs The Big Changes from VisVirific's Guide: The Stabilizers Spoiler Almost nothing. Seriously, they nail it here. I stole the Tramacetamol recipe (1:1 Tramadol to Paracetamol) from VisVirific. But in true Barcus fashion, like a man standing on the shoulders of a giant, I have a better way to make it: Steal the Tramadol pills from the Medication Closet Steal four Paracetamol pills from a NanoMed vending machine Put four Paracetamol pills in the grinder Put four Tramadol pills in the grinder Bottle the two bottles of Tramacetamol, put them in the fridge Explain to Paramedics and Doctors that they DO have a painkiller in the fridge. And if they "have" to have Tramadol, there is a pill bottle in the ICU closet. Refuse to make Oxycodone. If a Head tells you to make it, remind them they aren't your Head. If the CMO, Captain, or Acting Captain orders it, require paperwork. Once upon a time, I put it (30 unit bottles) in the fridge for the Surgeons. This drug is the "I want it if I don't have it, won't use it if I do." The only other change I make is that you can get away with only making 1 bottle of Adrenaline. I use half of it to fill up 6 autoinjectors, saving one for a rainy day. And I use the other half of that Adrenaline bottle to make Inaprovaline, the best, least used drug on the station. If someone wants a bottle of Adrenaline, tell them to carry an autoinjector on them. They will likely go the whole shift without using it. The Big Changes from VisVirific's Guide: The Blood Supplements Spoiler His guide is what you should do if you want to have prepared blood supplements for the crew. His standards are like what some government agency would require to be on hand at all times and that guardrails must be located within heretofore distance of the remainder... Look, its beyond overkill. Here is my guide: Maximum Prepared State: 1x pill bottle with 6, 20 unit Iron pills 1x pill bottle with 6, 20 unit Copper pills 1x pill bottle with 6, 20 unit Sulfur pills Elevated Prepared State: 1x pill bottle with 6, 20 unit Iron pills Normal Prepared State: Look, this is all based on the amount of crew, diversity of the crew, and what is going on. When I am making them on the spot, I also tend to throw 20 units of Sugar and 20 units of Water into the pills as well. People get hungry and thirsty from all that bleeding. And, don't fill up the whole bottle. You really want to put 120 units of the 1,000 units of Iron the entire lab has into little pills people forget exist? The Big Changes from VisVirific's Guide: Resupply Spoiler Oh boy, and this is the big reason for why I do things different. You can do all of the above out of one ChemMaster, and still have plenty of chems ready and waiting for spot production of other medicines AND still have a full ChemMaster sitting there. waiting to be used by Neith in his quest to make 15 full bottles of Bicardine a shift If you follow this guide, you won't have to resupply. And that's for the best. If you wanted to need Supply to provide you with stuff, you would be playing a Science role. Uncle Barcus' Goofy Mixes & Assorted Medicines Spoiler Did you know that you can fit SIXTY units in a single pill?! Oh boy oh boy does that mean you can make some great stuff. Below is some mixes I have that are mostly RP-fun, but still have a gameplay use: Astro-Nightquill: 15u cough syrup, 15u antihistamine, 15u paracetamol, 10u tricord, 5u soporific. When you feel like crap, likely loaded full of viral contagion, and you just want to sleep it off in the medical ward in the Sub-Level. Bonus: You can make this from the NanoMed's completely. Even the Doctor's could hand out this medication mix! AtroCord: 1:1 mix of Atropine and TriCord. This is worse than normal Tricord in a non-critical patient, but better than normal TriCord in a critical patient. Sometimes I make it a point of handing this to Paramedic's and EMT's. Arterial Bleed Treatment Kit: Grab one of the first aid kits from the closet and toss everything in it onto the floor. Now, fill it up with: 3x Syringes full of Bicardine (45u total) 1x Syringe full of Dylovene (15u total) 1x Syringe full of Peridaxon and TriCord (10u Peridaxon, 5u TriCord) 2 x pills that are 30u-30u Iron-Sugar Make sure the contents of the kit are, from left to right: Bicardine syringes, Dylovene syringe, Peridaxon syringe And finish it off with a label on the outside reading: AB KIT (R-G-P) Instruct the staff on how to use it (All the reds in, confirm bleeding stopping, green, purple, give them pills as needed through this process) Rescue Juice: 10u Bicard, 5u Kelotane, 5u Dermaline (10u KeloDerm, for those keeping score), 10u Dexalin Plus, 10u TriCord, 5u Norepi, 5u Inaprovaline, and 10u Peridaxon. This can be in a bottle, where Paramedics and EMTs can shoot it into people 15u at a time from a hypospray with no fear of OD-ing a patient... or this all fits into 1 pill! Play with this recipe all you want. Add painkiller, maybe put in adrenaline. Sky is the limit. And I would love to hear about your favorite broad spectrum crisis medications. Calovene: This a 2:1 mix of Calomel and Dylovene. This is basically dialysis in a medication. If someone has some poison in their system, you need Dylovene to help neutralize it, but Calomel is better than Dylovene at doing that. Just be aware, like dialysis, this will also suck out any medications the patient has in them. But if you don't have time for dialysis, this is your fix. Arithrazine-Dylovene: 2u of Arithrazine and 10u of Dylovene. (20u-100u, make 10, 12u pills) This will completely cure you of any radiation damage and the Dylovene will last longer than the Arithrazine, ensuring you aren't poisoned. Please let me know in the replies of any other cool stuff you have that you make! Creative new medicines are always fun! Conclusion Spoiler This guide can be read as a criticism of VisVirific's chemistry guide, and in some ways it is, but I want it to be seen for what I really think it is: VisVirific has made an outstanding guide and I am just pissing in the wind in his shadow. You should be reading that one. It is comprehensive, it is very detailed, he even teaches the recipes of everything, and has it formatted wonderfully. This is the Robert Barcus take on Neith Mekesatis' work habits. And in case I haven't made it clear enough, Vrow has really made an amazing guide. So amazing I could only make my "guide" as a modification of his. They are a fantastic Biochemist, and has pushed me to be better in ways and in recipes I didn't know I still had to learn. Edited March 22, 2020 by PTiberiusM Quote
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