U.S.S. Prometheus Article to accompany Episode 82 [Message in a Bottle] : page 2

Contents
Page 1: Ship (general). Bridge.	This page: Sickbay	Page 3: Pictures of Sickbay.	Page 4: Exterior views. Schematics.

A	Information	A number of viewscreens located around the Sickbay provide LCARS data and in addition display information on the ship's function and status.
B	Office space	A small office area at one end of the Sickbay provides the medical officer with an area away from the biobed in order. The desk enables the medical officer to carry out his medical administrative duties while at the same time providing him with line-of-sight observation of his patients. Unlike on Voyager, the Sickbay is open plan and the office is not partitioned off.
C	Outer ring	A narrow corridor runs around the outside of the sickbed which means that the biodbed is enclosed so that nothing need disturb the patient nor the medical officer treating them.
D	Patient care	The ship has one biobed (compared to Voyager which has three plus one main diagnostic biobed). The biobed, an examination and whenever necessary an operating table, is positioned on a raised circular platform underneath the primary ceiling illumination.
E	Pharmacy	Drugs can be prepared for use within Sickbay, within easy reach of the biobed. The pharmacy is a small workstation which consists of a bench above which is a wall-mounted control panel and display, and a small desk area. Drugs carried aboard as a matter routine include the anaesthetics neurazine (which can be administered in gaseous form), axinol and anaesthethine. device to the left of E
F	Overhead illumination	The main source of light is built into a circular dais-type feature which extends downwards from the ceiling above the main operating and examination table. The design is deliberate, in order to provide the medical officer with direct and focussed lighting on the patient.
G	Direct access	The medical bay can be entered from a number of sliding doors located arond the exterior corridor, which enables the area to be accessed quickly from all directions. Sickbay is itself, as per standard Starfleet design, located close to the most populated and/or most used areas of a starship in order to be readily available if needed.
H	Support	The overhead light is the highest point of an arc formed by a number of upwardly sweeping support buttresses, attached to angled pillars around the exterior walls.
I	Workstation	Located close to the biobed, this workstation incorporates a monitor on which medical or ship's information can be displayed, a level surface to the right of the monitor for putting things on, and to the left of the monitor two LCARS-interface control panels incorporating the usual Starfleet touch-sensitive buttons.
not visible due to angle the drawing is shown from	Jefferies tube hatch	The primary Jefferies tube access door is located directly to the left of the main workstation.

Source: ST:M