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When the city of New York faced a major healthcare crisis due to COVID-19 with the critical shortage
of hospital beds and staff, an amazing thing happened.
With a collaboration and teamwork of federal state local and private partners the Javits
Convention Center was turned in to the Javits Medical station.
A full-service field hospital with an innovative oxygen supply system, a full pharmacy, lab
and ICU.
We are fully prepared and able to scale the field hospital up or down depending upon the
need.
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We’re looking at the microbiology lab.
Over there is the BioFire.
This is where we do our COVID testing.
We’ve taken in over 1100 patients of the people of New York City.
We’ve had over 4,000 patient samples that were sent out for testing.
We‘re just trying to provide the best patient care we can for the people of New York City.
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This is the ICU unit.
It was opened on April 6, closed on April 28th.
It saw 48 patients that were either discharged to the other side, to the intermediate care
or to other healthcare facilities.
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(DMAT) New York-2 was here at the Javits Center since the center opened for patient care.
We (DMAT CT-2) integrated into the system on April 26th with DoD and other people who
were here on scene.
We took over about a hundred and eight patients at that point and since that time we've discharged
many of those, and are at 25.
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Hi, we're here at the pharmacy at the Javits Medical station specifically to meet the needs
of our patients.
We're integrated with the DoD and the U.S. Public Health Service.
We're capable of mixing medications as if we were a small inpatient hospital pharmacy.
Once we're finished, we're going to turn all the medications over to the state of New York.
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At the Javits Center, we had a critical need: how to get high flow oxygen into patients
at a convention center.
Two options: use bottled gas typically used.
The problem with that is a lot of movement, a lot of safety issues.
Or go to liquid oxygen.
Quickly New York State helped us install a system using a temporary liquid oxygen system
right over here.
And soon quickly after that we moved to permanent systems much like you have in a normal Hospital.
What enabled that was very simply this manifold over here which allowed us to select between
the temporary stuff, or the full-time stuff.
Brought it in, walked it in.
Brought the full-time in – just came about four days ago.
Up it goes, into the system.
The magic of the entire system is, we installed this with patients on the floor.
The company came in installed using flexible piping and manifolds on the floor with patients,
carefully moved around them, carefully worked around them.
And very very quickly in about three days, we had full flow, 50 liters per minute,
50 psi liquid oxygen in the floor of the Convention Center.
Amazing.
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