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I've been wondering, what does the Imperium use for their advanced hospitalisation techniques to heal wounds, broken limbs etc if anything like this would happen to a governor or inquisitor? I've heard of a regenerating gel or something, but never anything in detail.

Alexis Pollux had a whole arm regrown in the Horus Heresy novel The Unremembered Empire, so I'd say their stem cell technology is pretty solid to heal major wounds and shattered limbs for high ranking individuals. They also have growth hormone wrappings to help the process along.

 Eliphas wrote:
I've been wondering, what does the Imperium use for their advanced hospitalisation techniques to heal wounds, broken limbs etc if anything like this would happen to a governor or inquisitor? I've heard of a regenerating gel or something, but never anything in detail.

Mostly they use handwavium with a little side of plot armour....

Bionic replacements are also super-common, and given that this is the grimdarkness of the far future things like broken arms probably get routinely amputated and mechanical ones put in its place.

There's everything from amputation and bionics to full cellular rejuvenation - depending upon your finances and resources.

Eisenhorn had several rejuvenation treatments - and an augmetic servo harness (like Matt Damon's exo-frame in Elysium) hardwired into his head/cns.

Marines get bionics if they can't regrow it.
So do higher ranked guardsmen and in the necromundan hive spires, it's not unusual to see bionics on the higher strata of society.

One Necromunda novel deals with a Bounty Hunter tracking down augments on the Black Market.

Indeed. Both augmetics (mechanical replacements) and synthflesh (cloned replacement tissue) are mentioned.

Imperial medical technology is really, really good provided the Imperium gives a damn about you. Essentially, provided the injury hasn't destroyed your central nervous system, it's pretty much fixable.

 Eliphas wrote:
I've been wondering, what does the Imperium use for their advanced hospitalisation techniques to heal wounds, broken limbs etc if anything like this would happen to a governor or inquisitor? I've heard of a regenerating gel or something, but never anything in detail.

Its 40k it depends:

On who you are and where you are - what resources can you bring in to help.

Who does the fixing - your own team of specialist physicians, the Hospitilar, the Mechanicus - which branch of the latter - some will be wanting to use vat grown tissues and the like - other replace the flesh with metal. If you are really unlucky it would just be a overworked Guard doctor - in which case it may well be very basic.

The Imperium has the ability to fix pretty much anything, but it may not be the fix you anticipate.

I would just add that in 40k bionics seem absurdly common and cheap. Somehow it makes economic sense to lop off a guys arm and install a giant drill rather than have him hold a drill in his hands.

Slaves and lowest level workers are routinely given bionics. And when they die, the bionics are retrieved and shoved into the next sucker.

I can only assume that somehow the Imperium has really reliable and really easy to perform grafting techniques making a lot of bionics plug and play.

Colonel Schaffer (or how it's written) from 13th Penal legion had his arm regrowth. So even this is possible.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I would just add that in 40k bionics seem absurdly common and cheap. Somehow it makes economic sense to lop off a guys arm and install a giant drill rather than have him hold a drill in his hands.

Slaves and lowest level workers are routinely given bionics. And when they die, the bionics are retrieved and shoved into the next sucker.

I can only assume that somehow the Imperium has really reliable and really easy to perform grafting techniques making a lot of bionics plug and play.

Like Pit Slaves in Necromunda. Really more like "biounits" attached to an augment. When the biounit degrades or dies, they attach a new one to the augment. Suckers are easy to replace, and very flexible.