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There's no designated slot for a coroner on Aurora station and coroner's duties are frequently neglected. This guide is meant to show how to properly deal with body processing. Almost any medical personnel (including residents) can take on a role of coroner, apart from maybe chemists. However, do not take this role lightly.


Getting geared

What you're going to need is:

- a labcoat (yeah, it's medbay, keep it clean)

- a pair of nitrile/latex gloves (touching a cadaver with your bare hands is not adviced)

- a surgical mask (same as gloves. Health issue)

- a pen

- a folder (to conveniently store your papers)

- a universal recorder (optional. available in loadout menu. To document your autopsies verbally)

- access to morgue and autopsy lab (the most important thing. Use a request console to print out an additional access form, get it filled out and head to HoP to get your additional access)


Note: i don't consider cloning to be a part of coroner's job, but if you can use it - good for you. It will help with IDC (identity confirmation) and generally speed up the cloning process.


Areas of your concern are:

Temporary morgue - a smaller version of morgue where bodies are initially stored, awaiting processing

Autopsy lab - where most of your work will go down. Stocked with scalpel, autopsy camera, autopsy scanner, as well as a request console (aka your best friend)

Permanent morgue - we all eventually end up there. Here you'll store the bodies you finished processing


Keep your workplace clean, don't let the bodies pile up.


Another day - another death

So, you've got your gear and got your access sorted. What should you do now? Why wait for someone to die. You can stick around at medical office or do whatever, a death or critical injury will most likely be announced via medical frequency. Avoid being around living patient. There's nothing more unsettling than a guy with a coroner's id breathing down your neck as you get your food poisoning treated.

Eventually, your time will come and someone will haul a dead body to medbay lobby.


When death occurs - your job begins. Usually you'll be recieving a body in medbay. Here's how you should act:


- Note where the body was found, who brought it in as well as the approximate time of when the body was found (examining your pda will tell you the station time), you're going to need it later


- Get the body to temporary morgue, put it into a body bag and label it with the name of the deceased (first letter of the name followed by a surname)


- Go to the request console and print out a coroner's report form. It is a list of shit you have to do, so start moving down it. It looks something like this:

 

NanoTrasen Inc.

Civilian Branch of Operation


Form 0306

Coroner Report


Facility: NSS Aurora

Date: 2460-01-12

Index:


Location of Discovery:

Time of Discovery:

Time of Death:


Patient:

Identification Number:


Attached Forms:

Patient Medical Record [Y/N]: []

NCF-0305 Unrecoverable Personnel [Y/N]: []

Full Body Scan [Y/N]: []

NCF-0307 Bloodwork [Y/N]: []

Autopsy [Y/N]: []

NCF-0308 Foreign Body Removal [Y/N]: []

NCF-0309 Genetic & Identity Confirmation [Y/N]: []

Cause of Death:

Coroner's Notes:

Resurrection & Funerary


Details:


Medical Professional:

Signature:

Chief Medical Officer Stamp

 

- Get the body into a medical scanner and print out the results.


- If the body can not be identified, put it into a cloner and scan it (but do not clone!) the identity of the deceased should pop up on a screen. Alternatively you can ask CSI to perform identity confirmation or ask a surgeon to perform a facial reconstruction. Print out the identity confirmation form from a request console and fill it out. It looks like this:

 


NanoTrasen Inc.

Civilian Branch of Operation


Form 0309

Genetic & Identity Confirmation Report


Attachment:


Matching Fingerprint String:

Matching DNA String:


Facial Reconstruction [Y/N]: []


Medical Professional:

Signature:


Chief Medical Officer Stamp

 

When an identity is confirmed go to the medical records console, print out the cadaver's record, look for a DNC order and update the body bag label with a status (clone/DNC). Skip the identity confirmation part if the body can be identified visually.

- If there was no DNC order on the patient's records, attempt cloning. If it was unsuccessful, print an "unrecoverable personnel" form from a request console and fill it out. Update the bodybag label status according to the cloning result (Cloned/MIF). Note that you'll be unable to fill some lines such as time and cause of death. You'll have to come back to it later. The "unrecoverable personnel" form looks like this

 


NanoTrasen Inc.

Civilian Branch of Operation


Form 0305

Unrecoverable Personnel


Facility: NSS Aurora

Date: 2460-01-12

Index:


This form notes the denoted personnel unrecoverable through available medical means, such as genetic reconstruction. The denoted personnel will be stowed in the morgue, pending further medical action, as necessary.


Employee:

Assignment:

Cause of Death:

Time of Death:

Mental Interface Error [Y/N]: []

Notes:

Assigned Doctor:

Signature:


Chief Medical Officer Stamp

 

 

- Strip the body of ALL of its gear. Turn off the cadaver's pda messenger, get his id to HoP, get any department specific gear to the respective department, notify security of any suspicious stuff.


- Get the body to the autopsy lab, take a photo of it (set the photo focus to 1 via verbs tab -> object -> set photo focus). Write down or use the recorder to note the visible injuries. Perform an autopsy (the process is pretty much covered on the wiki page https://wiki.aurorastation.org/index.php?title=Guide_to_Cadavers). Avoid trying to make incisions on prosthetic limbs, you'll just end up damaging them.


- After getting your autopsy report, get a space cleaner, spray the body to clear it of possible blood.


- Fill in the missing parts of the "unrecoverable personnel"


- The information covered in bloodwork can also be found in full bodyscan and in autopsy report. If you have spare time, if you want to highlight the problem with cadaver's blood or if full scan/autopsy is unavailable, get a "bloodwork" form from the request console and fill it out. It looks like this:

 


NanoTrasen Inc.

Civilian Branch of Operation


Form 0307

Bloodwork Report


Attachment:


Blood Type:

Blood level: units (%)

Blood Donor [Y/N]: []

Trace Chemicals:

Medical Professional:

Signature:


Chief Medical Officer Stamp

 

- If your cadaver has embedded objects in it, get it to surgery and remove the embedded objects either yourself or with the help of a surgeon. Print out a "foreign body removal" form from the request console and fill it out. Note that foreign body removal damages the body, fucking up the body scan as well as autopsy report, so it should be done in the very end.

 


NanoTrasen Inc.

Civilian Branch of Operation


Form 0308

Foreign Body Removal


Attachment:


Location:

Item:


Medical Professional:

Signature:


Chief Medical Officer Stamp

 

- Fill in the coroner report, using information from the forms. Patient ID can be found in their medical records.


- Notify security if the circumstances of death seem questionable to you.


- Use the folder and hand labeler to relabel everything accordingly. Make sure there's no papers labeled (unknown)


- Get the report to CMO and get everything stamped.


- Make a copy of the report using the photocopier in the medical office.


- Put a copy of the report into the filler cabinet in the medical office.


- Put the original report into the cadaver's body bag.


- Haul the body down to permanent morgue.


- Label the tray you put the body bag in by the name of the cadaver stored in there, using the hand labeler.


Security and You

 

Dealing with cadavers includes those who die under questionable circumstances and therefore require investigating. Dealing with such bodies makes you de facto a third member of security investigation wing. It is a good idea to pda investigators when you get your assignment to let them know you're a designated coroner for the shift. Try to get along with them as you're now a part of a team. Working with security means following their standards.

- Be quick, precise, professional and disciplined.

- Don't pull the spotlight. Your job is to compile reports, not to build theories and speculations.

- Don't share details about an ongoing investigation with anyone. Be it your buddies at the bar or your curious collegues.

 

Role playing opportunities

 

Use the time waiting for death to occur to socialise. Walk around the station, talk to people, make friends and enemies.

After you're done with body processing, you can contact the chaplain to set up the funeral.

Schedule a psych evaluation with station psychologist and try your best to make him uncomfortable.

 

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