Impossible to save infected colonists?

[Panfilo]

I'm finding that if a colonist has a major infection even if I put him in a hospital bed and give him medicine he still develops an extreme infection and eventually succumbs. I already lost one very useful colonist and now have two others dying of infection. No matter how hard I try to keep them alive they keep dying of disease!

[Zubenelgenubi]

Bed quality is very important as it speeds up the rate they become immune.

[Shad]

1. Hospital beds (of decent qualiy and with vitals monitor) make people recover much faster.
2. Ensuring they rest and are well fed speeds it further.
3. A good doctor is essential.
4. The colonists should be resting from the moment they have the infection (minor). Leaving it until it deteriorates to major is bad.

[Mr W]

Also, the faster you get regular wounds healed, the less chance of infection in the first place.

[Mr W]

Oh yeah, having a night shift doctor so that there isn't a delay in treating helps a lot.

[Shhh]

Yeah be watching that treatment timer. Want to make sure your doctor isnt asleep or otherwise busy when it is time.

[DiovanLestat]

All this, and when you get money, a sterile floor (cost silver) and a vitals monitor (needs research) and glitterworld medicine for the best type of care you can get in the game. (These are not necessary and are expensive but ensure top quality care)

[ambi]

If a limb is infected (extreme), amputate it.

[Ficelle]

You should not wait for major infection to start the healing.
You should start healing from the minor stage.

Have the priority set to 1 for everyone to go resting and stay in bed when they need healing.

Have all doctors healing priority set to 1, everyone else healing disabled.
You dont want crappy doctors to do the job.

Be sure infected are well fed.

Use medicine (i do with herbal just fine but better medecine is better) and best possible medbeds.
Watch for oldies, they are slower to get immunity.

[Delthea]

-As soon as you notice it's infected (untreated), send them right to bed (rest until healed), and have a doctor prioritize that patient.

-Pay attention to the patient's health bar. It will give you a timer that says "next treatment in xx hours". When it gets to 1 hour, draft your doctor and walk them to the medicine. When it gets to "untreated" undraft your doctor, and prioritize healing.

-Make sure the quality of your medical beds is high. Throughout the course of the game, try to have only one person constructing as much as possible. This allows you to have a single colonist with a high construction stat. If you're not taking care of any damage control (spiders, fires, dying people, etc), have your constructor create several beds, and reinstall the ones with the best qualities in your hospital. This is, of course, prior to medical beds, which are very steep in cost. By the time you unlock this tech, you will have a construction stat high enough to guarantee some good beds.

-Doctor skill is important. Every time you get prisoners you don't plan on recruiting, operate on them. Dentures, peglegs, the whole bit. You can then release them to gain a beneficial relationship with whomever you captured the colonists from. Organ harvesting is an option, but it's effectively trading mood for silver, which is rarely worth it.

[Zalzany]

Yeah make sure even if you got no med bed put a normal bed as medical so they run to it to get treated, and try your best to keep that area clean use sterile tiles if you got the silver to make your hospital more clean. Dirt in the area they rest can lead to infection even if they are bandaged up alrady.

Once they are infected make them a priority tell the doc second they are do for more treatment to get his/her butt in gear and treat them. It will get worse with out the good high tech stuff, but if you do it right you can get an extreme or major to devolp imunity, and they will then recover fomr it and go back to work.

I make a bunch of beds for my people ealry one out of wood, and break the bad ones and seen the best min of good or higher to my first hospital. Also construct a small stockpile enarby for med supplies to make treat ment faster, I use a mini cooler not good for power effeciency but I want my medical herbs to stay frozen year round and feels wrong to not freeze spare organs even if they do not rot as of yet.

[connor]

If the infection gets too bad, I would recommend amputating the limb that the infection is in.