Doctors helping doctors

Mayo Clinic doctors are lending a hand in New York without ever leaving Rochester

In this unprecedented time?

The message is clear: we are all in this together.

That includes the doctors and nurses on the frontline of the fight against the coronavirus.

Physicians at rochester's mayo clinic are helping their fellow health care professionals from more than on?

Thousand miles away.

Kimt news three's raquel hellman is finding out how the innovative tel?

??u program works.

She joins us now live in rochester to explain?

Raquel?

Live where i'm standing?

Right by mayo clinic's gonda building is on?

Thousand 150 miles away from new yor?

Presbyterian lawrence hospital which has been inundated with covi?19 cases.

That's why doctors right here in rochester are providing some much needed support to their cohorts in new york.

Just a couple of hours ago i talked to sean caples?

A mayo clinic pulmonologist and critical care physician.

Much like he virtually chatted with me?

He and other healthcare workers are using tablets to patients in new york.

They also have access to patient records?

Including lab tests bedside monitors?and ?ray images.

Every morning and every evening?

They basically do virtual rounds?

Going bedside to bedside?

And then make recommendatio ns to the care team in new york.xxx things like management of a ventilator, things that aren't familiar to a provider that doesn't typically work in an icu setting the whole process basically lets mayo's doctors act as if they're right there in new york?

Helping patients and*all of the medical staff treating those patients.

They've been helping out the hospital in new york for a few weeks now.

Live in rochester, raquel hellman, kimt news three./// thanks raquel.

Doctor caples (ka?pulls) says they're also learning a lot about covi?19 from the doctors in new york.

Hear about that tonight on kimt news 3 at ten./// exclusive it's a story you'll only see here on kimt news