Trauma Team: the dark future’s paramedics
Cyberpunk 2077’s Trauma Team International may seem like it’s similar to modern-day public health services like simple EMTs. In actuality, they are a premium paramedical franchise that specializes in rapid response medical services utilizing powerful weaponry and cutting-edge tech.
Demand for such a service in the violent metropolis of Night City is high, making they are one of the most powerful corporations of this age.
A franchise of paramedics who operate in the US, Canada, and different parts of Europe, Trauma Team can be dispatched to your location by dialing 911 or tracing calls to the source. High-end clients are billed from the moment a call is placed until they are delivered to a hospital for further examination and medical aid.
A Trauma Team client may opt to carry a “Deadman Transmitter”, which when activated automatically signals Trauma Team the moment the client’s brainwave pattern falls into a coma state. Think of it as a futuristic Life Alert, but not only for seniors.
Sandra Dorsett, a Trauma Team client from the gameplay demo with a “blocked” deadman transmitter chip
Trauma Team Packages
Full Body Life Coverage
Trauma Team packages in 2020 lore come in a variety of different tiers. The first is the Full Body Life Coverage. This plan costs $500 Eurodollars a month, or $5,500 with a yearly plan. In the event Trauma Team is dispatched, the customer also has to pay 100 Eddies for every minute until they arrive at the nearest corporate hospital, as well as for the cost of ammo fired by Trauma Team, fuel used, and damage to equipment incurred.
This plan comes with a 10-minute response time, although if it’s over 10 minutes the patient gets 50% off.
Corporate Coverage
Next, we have Corporate and Corporate Executive Coverage, which costs $1500 eddies per month or $16,500 with a yearly plan. This plan promises a response time of 7 minutes or less and the patient is taken to a corporate medical centre upon pickup.
Arasaka uses Trauma Team services for their top-end corporate talent
The patient does however have to pay for equipment and personnel damage as well. The corporate executive plan covers all the ammo and fuel costs, but the customer still has to pay for any equipment or personnel damage.
High Priority
Finally, we have High Priority coverage a plan which costs 34,000 Eurodollars per year. The plan comes with a gold Trauma Team card, and the response time is 3-5 minutes, which TT claims is the fastest.
Once the customer is picked up, they are taken to a corporate hospital instead of a medical centre. All ammo and fuel costs are covered but the patient again has to pay for equipment damage. For 2077, it seems that Trauma Team has a platinum tier which is one higher than gold and is a 3 minute response time flat, and potentially covering all equipment and personnel damage.
Trauma Team Medics & Soldiers
Trauma Team squads consist of a couple of members. Because they respond to their clients via aerodyne, they need an aerodyne pilot, and co-pilot who can also act as a gunner.
A Trauma Team squad raids a Scavenger hideout to rescue a platinum-tier member
TT squads also have 2 security specialists, a lead EMT and an assistant EMT. In 2077 the titles have been simplified to Trauma Team soldier and trauma team medic.
Trauma Team Equipment & Treatments
Trauma Team uses an AV-4A Aerodyne which is lightweight, made of composite materials, and is usually supported by refueling stations and trucks on the ground below. These aerodynes have some of the most advanced technology in Night City with a mobile cryo tank available to reduce body temperature, to stop hemorrhaging, shock, and brain swelling. There are also on-board heart and lung machines as well as biomonitors.
A Trauma Team Squad administers first aid to a patient
Rapid surgery is done onboard to critical members through the use of electroshock, drugs, and manual resuscitation. In the actual aerodyne, the co-pilot mans a 7.62 squad automatic weapon and never leaves the cockpit, whilst the EMTs extract the patient.
Spare parts and body banks are popular in Night City, which can be convenient for those close to death, or in need of getting put back together. These are essentially donor organs and limbs presumably harvested by Trauma Team or their competitor REO Metwagon, from deceased clients. It’s lucrative and morally grey, like most things in Night City.