<Lt. Lisa Barrett, Sickbay>

Barrett heads down to sickbay to take another look at the patients. The small sickbay was extremely crowded, considering it was only designed to deal with two or three minor cases at a time. Not only were there a couple of ensigns from Engineering with severe burns after a display monitor short-circuited, but of course there was Lt. Cmdr. Diego, laying in a coma with an unknown substance circulating her bloodstream.

The doors slid open as Barrett entered. The ensigns were being treated with a burn gel by one of the nurses, and Diego was in sickbay's sole intensive-care unit.

Barrett settled behind the small desk in the corner of the room, and activated the padd laying there. 
Whatever this substance was, it seemed to be some kind of advanced stimulant, capable of accelerating reflexes by up to ten times. However, it also caused massive damage to the nervous system. Right now, Diego was stable, but there was nothing they could do to remove the substance. It seemed to be converting blood-cells to it's own structure - by the time they'd removed some of it, there was more to replace it. There was nothing they could do to prevent it.

A high-pitched bleeping from the intensive-care unit caused her to drop the padd and spring to her feet. By the time she reached it, one of the nurses was already performing scans of the patient.

"Lieutenant, we're losing her"

Barrett almost smiled at receiving her perferred address of rank, rather than "Doctor", but right now she had more important things to think about.

Reaching for a medical scanner, she noticed that Diego's brain activity was starting to accelerate rapidly. She could also see that she was starting to twitch, uncontrollably. The twitches turned to jerks in a matter of seconds, and within 20 seconds she was almost throwing herself off the bed.

"Nurse, 40ccs of hycaldazine, plus 20 of lodrazan."

The drugs had no effect, whatsoever. Barrett searched her brain for something to use, but drew a blank. 

"Barrett to McRae. Medical emergency. We need you in sickbay right away."