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Ship's phasers delivered a space baby once.
It's a scifi show, everything is a medical device. Palm beacons, phasers, nanoprobes, warp plasma, whatever tupperware casserole bowl Spock wore as a beltbuckle while his brain was missing. Its all fair game.
McCoy used one to heat up some rocks to keep an incapacitated Kirk warm.
They did that several times in TNG
They did it in DS9 and I think Enterprise and Voyager too!
Kirk sure gets incapacitated a lot.
Is that what we’re calling it now?
In real like most things can be medical devices.
Knives, rope, sticks, heated metal, paper bags, pens, and random clothing all come to the top of my head as things on hand used for improvised medical devices from tourniquets to braces to that thing where they have to poke a hole in your neck so you can breathe. An accurate phaser could be both the knife and the heated metal if what is cut needs cauterized!