Triage Cot

The Triage Cot is a medical building used by Duplicants to recover from physical injuries and receive aid from other Duplicants. It can be assigned to a specific injured Duplicant, who will then use that cot for rest and recovery. When a patient is lying on a Triage Cot, they gain the Triage Cot Resting buff and recover 50 health per cycle, while also gaining -10% stress per cycle and +1% breath per second. If another Duplicant is performing aid on the patient, the patient instead receives the Receiving Treatment buff and recovers 75 health per cycle, with -20% stress per cycle and the same +1% breath per second.

The breathing bonus is especially useful because it counteracts Slimelung and can also let healthy Duplicants be treated in oxygen-free environments without suffocating, since Holding Breath only reduces breath at -0.9%/s. Sleeping on a Triage Cot also counts as sleep, so it can restore stamina and reduce stress. Duplicants on a Triage Cot are not disturbed by light, which means the attending Duplicant can still benefit from the Lit Workspace buff while providing treatment, although this does not make the patient heal faster.

A few practical details make Triage Cots particularly useful in emergency setups:

• They function outside Hospital rooms with no penalty.
• If a Duplicant’s health reaches 0, they become incapacitated and must be rescued by another Duplicant and brought to a Triage Cot.
• A Duplicant incapacitated by fatal Radiation Sickness cannot be saved; they will repeatedly fall off the cot until they die.
• Once an injured Duplicant fully recovers, their assigned Triage Cot is automatically unassigned.

In older versions, Triage Cots counted as both beds and medical equipment for room purposes, which caused them to conflict with themselves when trying to create bedrooms.