How do I handle an injured or ill player, or blood?

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Injury during a rally Stop play and replay the rally. If the player can't continue within 30 seconds, the team must replace them with a legal substitute or a legal libero replacement, or take a legal timeout if the player is to stay in. Special injury timeout If the player can't continue, the team has no timeouts left and no legal or exceptional substitute, the first referee may grant a special injury timeout of up to 3 minutes. If the player can't return by the end of it, the team plays short for the rest of the set. Playing short A team must have 6 players to start a match, but may continue with fewer than 6 because of injury, illness or disqualification. Exceptional substitution Counts as a team substitution if fewer than 18 have been used. The player replaced may not return in that set. Injured libero Replace the libero with the player the libero replaced or the second libero, or designate a new libero. A redesignated injured libero may not play the rest of that set. Blood Treat the player as injured. Any blood on the uniform means it must be cleaned or changed. A necessary uniform-number change carries no penalty.