IIRC, there are quite a few episodes of Voyager showing the hypospray being loaded/reloaded with a cartridge. It’s unclear how many doses are contained in the cartridge, but typically more than one. I would think that for most treatments the Sickbay replicator just produces a ready-to-use batch of cartridges, whereas for more specialised medication the EMH has to actually make it up manually.
They can be configured for different medications on a single cartridge though, it seems like, so it must not be just medicine, but some kind of solution of components that the case can mix
So how do the hyposprays work? Does it have a tiny replicator to produce the serum?
IIRC, there are quite a few episodes of Voyager showing the hypospray being loaded/reloaded with a cartridge. It’s unclear how many doses are contained in the cartridge, but typically more than one. I would think that for most treatments the Sickbay replicator just produces a ready-to-use batch of cartridges, whereas for more specialised medication the EMH has to actually make it up manually.
They can be configured for different medications on a single cartridge though, it seems like, so it must not be just medicine, but some kind of solution of components that the case can mix