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Program Description
Audience: Defense and plaintiff attorneys, legal nurse consultants, and healthcare providers
An undiagnosed epidural hematoma may result in devastating permanent injuries – paralysis and incontinence. 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. How does this dreaded complication happen? Two experienced legal nurse consultants explain the anatomy, risk factors, and the standards of medical and nursing care related to spinal procedures and epidural catheters.
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Presenters
This webinar is narrated by Cheryl Gatti (top) and Jude Lark (bottom), and presented with Powerpoint slides. Viewers will have an opportunity to download the slides in advance of the program.
Cheryl and Jude founded Lark & Gatti Medical Legal Consultants in 1993. Cheryl’s clinical background is in critical nursing, as a staff nurse, preceptor and manager. She was past president and one of the founding members of the Morristown New Jersey Chapter of AALNC. In addition to lecturing on various clinical and professional topics, Cheryl is a current reviewer for The Journal of Critical Care.
Jude’s extensive clinical practice includes medical surgical, critical care, emergency room, and burn nursing. Jude is currently the nurse educator in the emergency department of a major New Jersey medical center. She was also past president and one of the founding members of the Morristown New Jersey Chapter of AALNC. Cheryl and Jude co-authored the chapter on personal injury in the third edition of AALNC’s Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices.
Cheryl and Jude received rave reviews when they presented this program at the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants annual conference in March 2010.
Moderator: Patricia Iyer, who has 22-years of experience as a legal nurse consultant.
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Related Reading
Excerpt from Guy William Fried, MD and Karen Mandzak Fried, MSN, RN, CRRN, CCM, “Spinal Cord Injury” in Patricia Iyer (Editor) Medical Legal Aspects of Pain and Suffering:
Spinal cord injury is one of the most devastating conditions that can affect the body. The changes that take place often have a permanent impact on all aspects of the patient’s life; physiologically, psychologically, vocationally, socially and emotionally. Although technology and advances in medical treatment have had a tremendous impact on the care and long-term survival of these patients, the pain and suffering that is endured usually persists for the rest of their lives. In addition to this, dual diagnoses and concurrent complications are not uncommon. Persons who become spinal cord injured may also experience extensive burns, traumatic brain injury, multiple fractures and pain, just to name a few. Attorneys handling spinal cord injury cases are well aware of the huge damages and long term care involved in these injuries.
The reason that there is such a great impact on a patient’s life is because of the spinal cord’s key functions. The spinal cord carries all the messages between the brain and the body. These messages involve all voluntary motion, breathing, sensation, tone, pain perception, bowel and bladder control and sexual functioning. Spinal cord injury leads to a major disruption of this message system and although the person may survive the injury itself, his body no longer functions the way it did before the injury.
