Diagnosis

Diagnostics is a field of medicine in Trauma Team, where you play as Gabriel Cunningham to diagnose patients and find the disease affecting them, with the help of his computerized assistant RONI.

Gameplay[]

Diagnostics consists of several stages: the examination room, the office, and the image analysis room. These are where the player collects symptoms on the patient and matches them with those of illnesses in the database.

Most of the gameplay involves detecting abnormalities to determine a symptom with the A button. If the player thinks an abnormality is present where one isn't, a mistake is recorded. Up to 5 mistakes can be made before a game over is issued.

Sometimes the diagnosis process is very complex and must be done in several stages. When advancing to the next part of these multi-step levels, any mistakes you've made in the previous part are erased.

Diagnostics does not possess a difficulty level or rank, and is restricted to only one player.

Examination Room[]

This is where Gabe sees the patient, and where the diagnosis begins. The player can either talk with the patient, listen to the patient's abdomen with the stethoscope, review a blood sampling analysis, view the patient's EKG, or conduct visual checks on the patient. Sometimes a patient will be uncooperative and Gabe will need to figure out another means of getting the information he needs.

Consultation[]

Gabe speaks with the patient, and they try their best to recall their symptoms and potential events leading to them getting ill. Whenever the patient describes something that can pertain to a symptom, the player can point the Wiimote at the speech bubble and push the A button.

Stethoscope[]

Here, the player has to use the stethoscope to check the heart, lungs, or abdomen of the patient. Position the stethoscope by using the Nunchuck analog stick, and hold the Z button to listen. While listening, the control stick on the Nunchuck can be tilted up or down to switch between the patient's sound sample, and that of a normal person. If there are any suspicious discrepancies, tap the A button to log the symptom. Options exist to allow for the player to hear sounds either from their TV for better sound quality, or the Wiimote to better emulate stethoscope use.

Blood Analysis[]

The player reviews the blood test results from the patient, with healthy reference ranges for comparison. If there is a discrepancy for any parameter, select it with the A button to record a potential symptom.

EKG[]

Gabe reviews the patient's electrocardiogram. Tilting the Nunchuck analog stick to the left or right will adjust the speed of the EKG scroll, while tilting it up or down switches between the patient's EKG and a healthy EKG. Discrepancies are once again identified with the A button.

Visual Examination[]

Hover over the patient and tap A to zoom in on the patient, and identify any suspicious details with the A button. To examine a patient's abdomen, hover over the patient's torso and tap A again.

Office[]

Here, the player can consult RONI to review the identified symptoms and match them with possible diseases. When a disease is selected, a description will appear underneath it. Symptoms in the list can then be dragged over to the description of the disease in an attempt to match those in the text. Mismatching will be marked as a mistake. Once all symptoms fill out the faded blue rectangles under the disease's name, a proper diagnosis can be made.

If you've exhausted the list but can't arrive at a final diagnosis, Gabe and RONI will agree that they will need further tests to confirm their suspicions, which will unlock other testing options to progress. If they believe that the current list doesn't make sense, Gabe will suggest a different unlisted disease, causing RONI to populate the disease list with new differential diagnoses. If neither of these happen, there may be more symptoms you need to identify.

If the player is stuck, they can consult RONI for a suggestion on the next step.

As diagnosis scenarios tend to take a long time, the player can save their progress here and resume the game at a later time. If a game over is issued, the player can reload from the last saved position.

Image Analysis Lab[]

Imganalysis — Reviewing a patient's CT scan

Some symptoms call for imaging tests to be conducted to narrow down the diagnosis. Here, images from Scintigraphy, CT, MRI, and X-Ray scans can be viewed, comparing the patient's imaging with that of a healthy person. Discrepancies are confirmed with the A button.

Cases[]

This is a list of all cases handled by Gabriel Cunningham.

Patent	Age	Diagnosis	Has Rosalia Virus?
Nicole Summers	14	Plummer's Disease	No
Jacob Tillman	55	Congestive Liver Failure	No
		Dilated Cardiomypathy
Shelly Brooks	28	Kaposi's Sarcoma	Yes
		Occlusive Ileus
		Carcinomatous Pleuritis
Joshua Cunningham	10	Gastric Ulcer	No
		Acute Pancreaitis
		Wermer's Syndrome
Samuel Trumbull	27	Pancoast Tumor	Yes
		Malignant Liver Tumor
		Viral Hemmorrhagic Fever

Other[]

In some cases, the patient will display a strange discrepancy which is not attributed to their illness, either due to faulty equipment or normal variations in physique. While confirming this as an abnormality will not count as a mistake, they do not count a symptoms. However, since these are usually easy to miss, spotting these will earn Doctor Medals for Gabriel's scenarios.

Trivia[]

With 5 cases, Diagnosis is the least played of the 6 professions in Trauma Team.
As with actual Diagnosis, all of Gabriel's patients during his main story line follows-up with an operation. Hank handles Nicole, CR-S01 is brought in for Jacob, Shelly and Joshua's operations.