Animal Hospital Events & Emergencies

Events and emergencies break up the steady rhythm of checking in and treating patients. They appear on the right side of your screen and demand a response — some immediately, some on a looser timer. Handling them well is essential to surviving the later shifts, where several can stack at once.

Emergencies vs events

The distinction matters for how fast you react:

• Emergencies are timed and must be handled right away. Fail one and you usually lose a patient (and score).
• Events are more forgiving, with a relaxed or no completion timer, though they still demand attention.

Both show up on the right of your screen, so keep half an eye there at all times.

The emergencies

• Fainting patient — a checked-in patient passes out in the lobby, hallway or their room. You have 60 seconds to carry them to their room and place them on the bed. You do not have to treat them immediately, just get them on the bed.
• Patient on fire — a patient runs in on fire; put out the fire, then bring Ointment for the burns. They can still be an Anomaly, so photograph them after helping.
• Death Ritual — a patient starts a ritual in a treatment room; extinguish all the candles within 60 seconds, losing 1 Sanity per candle.
• Critical patient — a critical-condition patient spawns during check-in; you have 120 seconds to get them into a recovery state in the right room, or they die. Often happens during the Ambulance event.

The events

• Fire in a room — rooms can catch fire, damaging you (1 Sanity/second) and any patient that walks in. Put it out by holding E or, better, with a fire extinguisher. No time limit.
• Ambulance — after shift 4, multiple patients rush in at once, including patients on fire, normal patients, and auto-admitted Anomalies that will awaken into Skinwalkers.
• Barney — after shift 2, a multi-stage storyline with a white-rabbit serial killer. Reject him, or play his choices for a reward like a second coffee machine.

Prioritize timed emergencies first

When multiple things happen at once, triage by timer. A fainting patient (60s), a Death Ritual (60s) or a critical patient (120s) will fail if ignored, so they take priority over untimed events like a room fire that is not currently threatening anyone. Learn each timer so you can budget your seconds correctly under pressure.

Prepare before they hit

The best event response starts before the event. Keep coffee ready for Sanity-draining emergencies like the Death Ritual, own a weapon before shift 4 for the Ambulance rush, and know the hospital layout so you can sprint to an emergency by the shortest path. With preparation, even a stacked late-shift wave of events is manageable. Dive into the big ones — Barney, the Ambulance event, fire and burns, and the Death Ritual — using the guides in this section.