TvDx
New Amsterdam

New AmsterdamNBC

Season 5, Episode 3

11 medical diagnoses portrayed

Watch on Amazon

Also known as: Manic depression

Floyd suspects his estranged father has untreated bipolar disorder explaining decades of erratic behavior and abandonment. The father uses the diagnosis to deflect responsibility rather than seek treatment, rejecting Floyd's offer for medical help.

New Amsterdam — S05E03Patient: Horace Reynolds (Floyd's father)
Recurring storyline
Pneumothoraxsupporting

Also known as: Collapsed lung

A wedding guest sustains a 70% collapsed lung during the stampede, requiring chest tube placement.

Also known as: Esophageal tear

A wedding attendee suffers esophageal rupture from trauma during the stampede and requires emergency surgery.

Also known as: Femoral artery injury

Massive hemorrhageHemorrhagic shock

The groom sustains a lacerated femoral artery with massive bleeding during the wedding stampede, complicated by his extremely rare Lutheran B negative blood type that makes transfusion life-threatening with standard blood products.

New Amsterdam — S05E03Patient: The groom

Also known as: Rare blood type

Transfusion reaction risk

The groom has an extremely rare blood type with atypical protein making O negative blood potentially lethal. This drives a major subplot where the team must locate Rh-null 'golden blood' from Bermuda.

New Amsterdam — S05E03Patient: The groom

Also known as: Death-like state

Seizure disorder

Lily, the flower girl, develops catatonia after witnessing her brother set off a smoke bomb to stop her forced child marriage. She becomes unresponsive despite no physical injuries, requiring benzodiazepine treatment and behavioral health admission.

Also known as: Smoke inhalation

A 32-year-old wedding guest presents with severe smoke inhalation and minor abrasions from the wedding incident, treated with 100% oxygen.

New Amsterdam — S05E03Patient: Cordelia Kaplan

Also known as: Rebar impalement

A wedding guest has a three-inch high heel stiletto impaled through his back, narrowly missing vital organs after being trampled during the stampede.

Also known as: GI bleed

Intra-abdominal hemorrhageBowel perforationSeizure disorderIntestinal perforation

The bride crashes into a champagne glass tower and aspirates glass fragments that migrate through her GI tract, lacerating her small intestine and causing life-threatening intra-abdominal bleeding requiring emergency surgery.

New Amsterdam — S05E03Patient: Tamara Leckie
Ankle sprainsupporting

Also known as: Sprained ankle

The bride sustains an ankle sprain during the wedding chaos, requiring X-ray evaluation.

New Amsterdam — S05E03Patient: Tamara Leckie

Also known as: Heroin addiction

Lauren's sister Vanessa continues to struggle with active drug use, taking pills and being described as 'gobbling up drugs like they're Skittles,' creating tension as the sober Lauren moves in with her.

New Amsterdam — S05E03Patient: Vanessa Bloom
Recurring storyline