The CSHE Institute is one of the highlights of the year in our industry. If you haven’t been and you’re in the healthcare field, this is the conference to attend.

The Annual Institute provides a forum for healthcare experts to share knowledge, and learn about new technologies. This year’s theme is, “Creating & Maintaining Resilient Healthcare Spaces.”

The need for resilient healthcare has never been greater. That’s why, while CYA, Inc. has been a CSHE Gold Sponsor for 20 years, we opted to move to Platinum Sponsorship this year.
The CSHE Sponsorship page, featuring CYA

Please stop by CYA’s booth when you’re there. We’d love to discuss your medical gas needs and the latest BeaconMedaes technological advances for the control of medical air and medical vacuum systems.

Looking forward to seeing you May 9!

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COVID-19 Medical Air Demand Advisory

Design consideration regarding the anticipated additional demand on the medical air compressor system for the support of COVID-19 related ventilator use.

For instance:
R.T. provides you with an additional inventory of the 200 ventilators in reserve for this emergency.

Of the 200 ventilators, 60 – 65 of these machines have their own internal air compressor to be plugged into the wall.

To lessen the impact on the medical air source equipment, employ the these ventilators first.

Reality assist for design capacity of the existing medical air compressor source equipment:
Observe the actual function of the medical air source system.
You observe only one of the four compressors is in use at the time.

Since 3 compressors in use at one time is considered meeting calculated peak flow demand, it is reasonable to calculate there is room for more ventilator patients on this system, as designed.

I would state, comfortably, the current use factor of the medical air source equipment observed is less than 30% design peak flow demand capacity of this system.

Then, assuming you have the current medical air system rated capacity from the manufacturer you can comfortably state how many ventilators each medical air system will be able to accommodate without needing the reserve compressor to activate and cause the Lag (malfunction) alarms to activate.

The demand on the medical air system by each ventilator can be provided by the appropriate Clinical Manager. Typically, Total Minute Ventilation with FiO2 provides the demand on the medical air system for this calculation.

Respectfully,
Carsten H. Lunde, RRT, CMGV
4/20/2020

Download the full advisory in PDF format: COVID-19 Medical Air Demand Advisory (April 2020)

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With all the advancements in Web technology, we decided to rebuild our website into a useful resource for customers.

In the new CYAME.com, you’ll find a host of new features. Tools to help all our customers with their medical gas needs:

• Mobile-Friendly Website: For our on-the-go customers.
• Training Courses: Did you know CYA offers training courses for ASSE credentialing? With the new CYAME.com, medgas professionals can train for the entire ASSE 6000 series in our courses. Visit the Training page for details and registration links.
• New Discussion Forum In Progress: We’re working on a discussion forum dedicated to medical gas! We’ve already reserved the domain for it: MedicalGas.Info.
  
• Project Portfolio: A gallery of completed projects, so future customers can reassure themselves of CYA’s expertise.

Take a tour through the new CYAME.com. Here are links to the new features:

CYA’s Completed Project Portfolio

Medical Gas Training Courses (with Online Registration)

MedicalGas.Info Forum (Coming Soon!)

Don’t forget to sign up for the CYA mailing list! We’ll begin sending out email newsletters on medgas code changes, safety practices, & more very soon.

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What This Forum’s About – Keeping the Medical Gas Community Informed

Carsten Lunde, the “expert’s expert source” for the medical gas industry, spends regular time on several industry forums. But he wanted a place where CYA’s customers could feel free to gather, discuss important topics in confidence, and share insights on making patients safer.

When the company began planning an all-new CYAME.com, they decided to meet this need with an online forum.

When launched, the MedicalGas.Info forum will host 6 subforums: Code Compliance, Construction Management, Medical Gas Equipment, MGPHO, The Medical Gas Industry, and Training in Medical Gas Systems. Private subforums also exist to address specific customer needs.

Registration is limited to CYA customers, vendors, partners, and select professionals on an invite-only basis.

What Can I Discuss at MedicalGas.Info?

Got a question on medical gas safety? Current code compliance issues? Concerns over integrating medical gas into construction project? Confused about credentialing?

Ask your question in the forum! These and more are welcome topics.

Carsten will monitor and participate in the new forum every week. He must approve all members, to maintain a professional quality standard.

Watch the CYA News for the launch date! Customers are welcome to join the MedicalGas.Info community by visiting the Forum Registration page upon launch.

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The Institute offers over a dozen speakers, talking about disaster planning, resiliency, compliance, and the importance of data to healthcare’s improvement. Carsten may even get up to speak…he’s been asked to before!

The CSHE Institute is one of the highlights of the year in our industry. If you haven’t been and you’re in the healthcare field, this is the conference to attend. We hope to see you there!

For safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic, CSHE delayed the 2021 Institute until the next year. The Institute will take place at the Resort at Squaw Creek in Olympic Valley, CA from June 1-3, 2022.

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