Medical or Nursing Malpractice Programs for Legal Nurse Consultants

Death by IV Catheter: Air Embolism and IV Catheter Related Sepsis
Susan Masoorli RN is an intravenous therapy expert witness who educates nurses how to avoid air embolism through both peripheral and central venous access devices. The content will assist attorneys and legal nurse consultants who are involved in litigation after an air embolism or IV catheter infection occurs, as well as healthcare clinicians interested in knowing how to prevent patient deaths from these conditions.

Screening Potential Medical Malpractice Claims
Peter Berge, Esq., P.A., is an experienced medical malpractice and negligence attorney who will help you spot the claims that potentially have merit- from both the medical and legal perspectives. He will provide tips and pearls for use in the methodical screening of potential malpractice claims, using the elements of negligence as a practical framework. Legal nurse consultants will gain invaluable information that will help them more effectively guide their attorney clients.

Anticoagulation: Teetering on the Bleeding Edge
The Heparin overdose of actor Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins drew attention to the dangers of anticoagulants: Heparin, Coumadin, Lovenox, and others. These drugs have a very narrow window of safety. Even in the best of circumstances, when everyone does everything right, these drugs can lead to significant toxicity and bleeding, permanent injury, paralysis, blindness, and death. Listen to James O’Donnell, PharmD, discuss the risks of anticoagulation.

Spinal Epidural Hematoma: When Hours Count
The risks are increasing as more surgeries and procedures, including pain management with epidural catheters, are being performed and have the potential for the development of epidural hematomas. Liability may fall on the shoulders of the nurses and physicians associated with a failure to diagnose or a delay in diagnosis of the hematoma. Jude Lark and Cheryl Gatti, two experienced legal nurse consultants, present a case study approach to describe the development of this dreaded complication.