medic backpack
Produced by Chiewab Amalgamated Pharmaceuticals Company for use by military forces and search-and-rescue companies, the ECM-598 is the latest word in portable medical equipment. Essentially a scaled-up medpac, the ECM-598 contains a clinic's worth of medical equipment, drugs, tools, scanners, and other contents needed to keep a team of explorers alive in the field. All of this equipment is securely packed into a sturdy internal-frame backpack. It also includes a slim datapad containing an emergency-procedure database for most of the known sentient species in the galaxy, as well as tutorials to assist those with no medical training in treating wounded individuals in an emergency.

The ECM-598 even includes a collapsible repulsor stretcher with a weight limit of 150 kilograms for evacuating seriously wounded personnel. The ECM-598 medical backpack allows characters to attempt to heal others using Medicine checks with-out penalty, as detailed on page 219 of the EDGE OF THE EMPIRE Core Rulebook. In addition, it grants 1 blue die to all Medicine checks made while using the ECM-598 and, thanks to the tutorials and information on the datapad, individuals using this decrease the difficulty of any Medicine checks they make to heal Critical In-juries by 1 to a minimum of Easy (1 purple die).