Model: MedButton Applicator
Weight: 0.2 kg
Cost: 60 Credits
Background: Unium Medical Laboratories stormed into the commercial medical market with it’s Button technology. The concept was simple. A hand sized device with a micro analyzer in it along with a medicine dispenser. Over the years, Unium’s Button applicator has been refined; now, it is palm sized with a micro- analyzer the size of a matchbook. To use, the applicator is fed a cartridge of twelve buttons and the device is pressed against the skin of a patient. The micro-analyzer determines what dosage should be used (unless preset by the user) and from one to twelve buttons are “slid” into the patient. The buttons are 1 cm dots are slipped in under the skin by means of a minute laser scalpel inside the applicator. The button is then slipped into the cut and the scalpel then cauterizes the cut. The whole process takes approximately three seconds. The button then dissolves into the blood stream. Time for infusion is based upon the coating of the button (which ranges from immediate to hours). The applicator itself has only a small power pack for the analyzer, all other energy requirements come
from the power cell built into the button cartridge. Each cartridge contains enough power for each button it has. Cartridges are generally re-usable but must usually be refilled at a pharmacy, medical center, or the factory. Internal power cell is good for 50 analysis.