First Aid skill
First Aid is a Survival skill that measures a character's proficiency in bandaging bleeding wounds. Internal bleeding wounds can not be tended, and the skill has no applications with regard to treating poison or disease, permanently curing wounds, or restoring vitality loss.
For the purposes of this skill, the game assumes that every character has an unlimited supply of bandages which can be used whenever necessary.
Higher ranks in the skill mean that the character is capable of treating progressively more serious bleeding wounds with greater success and less roundtime. At higher levels of skill, characters can stop bleeders of great severity without incurring any roundtime at all.
A character that attempts to treat a wound that is vastly beyond his skill will fail to reduce the bleeding at all, and will likely cause a substantial roundtime for both himself and the intended patient.
Wounds where the tending has not completely stopped the bleeding (i.e. they don't show as clotted(tended) or (tended)), will bleed more freely when the bandages are unwrapped or come undone.
Use
See the TEND command.
Training
TENDing Wounds
Unlike every other skill but certain aspects of the stealing skill, experience learned from TENDing wounds is not treated the same. First a small percentage of the experience is added directly to the experience pool, the the vast majority is placed in a secondary experience pool. Over time this secondary experience pool is slowly draining into the primary pool. Each time a wounded is TENDed, the secondary pool is wiped out before new experience is added.
Thus, the most efficient way to train through TENDing is to bandage the hardest wound within the character's abilities and then allow to drain zcompletely.
Anatomy Charts
Once you have at least 50 in scholarship you can STUDY Anatomy Charts/compendiums to practice First Aid. You can TURN the page in the compendium to get to another creature to study.
Notes
Empaths get a bonus to First Aid.
Commentary
"After 100 ranks in first aid the compendiums are much easier to keep your learning going than trying to keep enough bleeders going --Khazera 16:46, 23 March 2008 (CDT)