Salin bag nerf?

[jffr363 33]

So the patch notes mention balancing the saline bag, which is a good thing. But its not very specific. Anyone tested it yet? Any idea what it does now?

[Korsbaek 1778]

I have heard that it doesn't restore to full blood. It's supposed to make people use blood-bags more.

[darthbane67 92]

Go to the newest video on what medical items to keep and throw out for now it will tell you in detail about the new saline bag. Also if you already haven't check out all his other guides you should as they will save your life more than a gun or axe ten times over. 

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/159251-merinos-in-depth-video-guides-updated-jan-22nd-all-medical-items-to-keep-or-not-to-keep/

 

But for a quick response saline use to give you 5000 blood basically filling it ALL the way up. It was clearly a typo in the code and has been brought down to its right number of 500. This is not a nerf its fixing a problem some noob (not really just kidding) made. 

[jffr363 33]

Gotcha, thanks for the video! 500 is a major decrease lol! Maybe a little too low, as you can regen 500 blood from the healing satus in like 3 mins. Not much incentive to use the Saline then. I guess blood bags giving 1000 can be useful if you get hit by an m4.

[Advent1 126]

Gotcha, thanks for the video! 500 is a major decrease lol! Maybe a little too low, as you can regen 500 blood from the healing satus in like 3 mins. Not much incentive to use the Saline then. I guess blood bags giving 1000 can be useful if you get hit by an m4.

While yes you can recover that much health from the healing status in 3 minutes, the time might come when you're knocked out and your friend doesn't have enough food or drink to give you and his saline (or yours) might be a god send!

[xRann 126]

Normal saline is just a temporary solution to mitigate the lost volume. I'm glad they decreased it so drastically, they now need to tweak blood bags. Either to scale of volume or a few variation on the size of the bags. 1k ml bag and 500ml bag, for blood and saline, 1+1 w/ iv lines inventory slots and 2+1 w/ iv lines. Carrying around bags of ns and blood would and should eat up valuable inventory real estate.

[WNxHakan 1]

Saline in real life is used to restore fluid volume in the body. As a result, it is commonly used to alleviate cases of dehydration as a result of vomiting, diarrhea, etc. Thus, it will probably be used to combat food poisoning in SA.

Edited January 23, 2014 by WNxHakan

[Irenicus (DayZ) 289]

So the patch notes mention balancing the saline bag, which is a good thing. But its not very specific. Anyone tested it yet? Any idea what it does now?

It's pretty specific, it says it does not restore full blood. It will most likely restore full health though.

[xRann 126]

Saline in real life is used to restore fluid volume in the body. As a result, it is commonly used to alleviate cases of dehydration as a result of vomiting, diarrhea, etc. Thus, it will probably be used to combat food poisoning in SA.

 

Close, ringer is usually used for most cases of dehydration, or d5, NS will work but addresses only the fluid loss. I'd personally like to see NS, LR, and Hextend all make their way in game along with whole blood, proper use/application is very important.

 

The ruff idea is NS and LR create fluid volume, primarily around your tissue. Whereas Hex, iirc is an 1:8, intravascular and is used to supplement the volume loss in your circulatory system and actually pulls fluid from tissue. NS and LR are crystalloid and Hex is a colloid, they function similarly but their end results differ dramactially.

[beelzebossi@hotmail.com 28]

I lost lots of blood today, but with food i gained it back in couple hours. Saline did help too and gave maybe 2/10 of the blood volume.

[Dr. Goner 661]

Saline in real life is used to restore fluid volume in the body. As a result, it is commonly used to alleviate cases of dehydration as a result of vomiting, diarrhea, etc. Thus, it will probably be used to combat food poisoning in SA.

 

or dehydration.