14 Operating Room Standards Of Care Expert Witnesses Found

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Gaylene F Chartier, MSN, RN, CNOR, LNC

Cave Creek, Arizona
Legal Nurse Consulting, Nurse - Surgeries: General Surgery, Laparoscopic Surgery, Spine Surgery, Urology Surgery, URO/GYN Surgery, GYN Surgery, Plastic Surgery, da Vinci Robotic Surgery. Operating Room Nurse. I have experience with Standard of Care, infection prevention/sterile technique, injury prevention and positioning.
I have been an RN since 1999 in the operating room, both as a circulator, a scrub, and Perioperative Clinical Educator. My experience ranges from Level 1 trauma to outpatient surgery center. I have experience in the surgical specialties of cardiac, general, gynecology, orthopedic (spine), plastics, and urology. I also have assisted with the implementation of the DaVinci Robotic program in the specialties of cardiac, gynecology, and urology. I have been employed in Scottsdale, AZ since August 2009, where I perform the duties of scrub and circulator. I was promoted to Clinical Nurse Educator in April 2015 for Shea and Piper Perioperative Department (OR, pre-op, PACU, Endoscopy, and CSPD). In this position I educated staff in the newest technologies and remain current with policies and procedures. I also reviewed and updated policies for the hospital system. I was also the Laser Safety Officer for the Scottsdale campus....

Janet G Attard, RN IV, RNC-MNN, CLNC, MBA, 1L The Legal Nurse Consultant Group

Danville , California
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology - High Risk Obstetric Care in the areas of L&D, Antepartum, Triage, Post Partum, and NICU. Legal Nurse Consulting, Standard of Care, Scope of Practice, Chain of Command, Communication, Team Work, Collaboration, Risk Management, Quality Assurance, Performance Improvement, Administration Responsibility
...Jan is a teacher mentor as 8th Edition NRP Mentor Instructor for the American Academy of Pediatrics. Jan has acted as VP Risk, Director Risk, Assistant Manager L&D, NICU, and Post Partum. Jan acts as Adjunct Professor for USF and Samuel Merritt University. Jan works full time as Registered Nurse in High Risk OB in L&D, NICU, and Post Partum. She is honored to act as an integral and collaborative member of the Litigation Team on behalf of Attorneys, Insurance Companies, and Hospital Groups. Jan works diligently for Attorneys, Health Care Organizations. and The California Board of Registered Nursing. Jan works as expert witness both for Plaintiff and Defense....

Alexis Chaudron, EdD, MSN, MHA, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, FACHE AEC Consulting LLC

Studio City, California
Legal Nurse Consulting, Orthopedic Surgery - Operating Room Nurse, Circulator Nurse, Scrub Nurse, Orthopedic Surgery, Neurosurgery, General Surgery, ENT Surgery, Plastic Surgery, DaVinci Robotic Surgery, GYN Surgery, Urological Surgery, and Pediatric Surgery, SPD, Pre-Op, PACU/Recovery, Surgery Center, GI, Nursing Leadership, Patient Safety
Alexis Chaudron is the owner of AEC Consulting LLC, an independent consulting practice through which she provides healthcare expertise honed through 15+ years of healthcare experience. Ms. Chaudron has provided expert witness services for medical legal cases. She has analyzed medical charts, depositions, declarations and other related documents to ascertain if the nursing standard of care has been met. Ms. Chaudron has provided depositions and expert testimony as needed depending on case requirements. She has worked for both plaintiffs and defense in medical malpractice and wrongful termination cases. Ms. Chaudron has a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health Studies from the Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Healthcare Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....

Gary R. Coburn Restaurant Concept Innovations

San Juan Capistrano, California
Hotel & Restaurant, Slip Trip & Fall - Slip, trip & fall, burns, choking, food safety, dram shop, alcohol, negligent security, employee safety, commercial kitchen, customer injuries, operations, management, franchise, ownership, permitting, training, investing, accounting, premises liability, OSHA, ADA, procedures, equipment design.
...Helped create, open, run, and advise hundreds of full-service restaurants, limited-service, quick-service, bars and nightclubs. Additional expertise in restaurant franchising and commercial kitchen design/build from remodels to ground up including conceptual development, viability, and business interruption. Over 40 years in the restaurant industry as owner, operator, franchisor, consultant, President, Chief Operating Officer, and General Manager of numerous restaurant and food service establishments. Experienced restaurant investor and developer. Active restaurant owner with consulting business developing restaurant concepts and turning around existing establishments....

Robert A Ertner, MD

Chico, California
Anesthesiology - cardiac anesthesia, airway trauma, intubation, operating room fires, positioning, central lines, airway management, regional anesthesia, ambulatory anesthesia, epidurals, spinal anesthesia, ICU sedation, preoperative assessment, general anesthesia, echocardiography
...Certified in peri-operative transesophageal echocardiography. Over 17 years of experience in hands-on patient care and direction/supervision of CRNAs and medical students. • General anesthesia including: Induction and maintenance of anesthesia, ventilator management, intra-operative monitoring, management of emergence from anesthesia, and transportation to and from the operating room. • Airway management including endotracheal tubes, single-lung ventilation, and non-invasive techniques. • Epidural and spinal anesthesia. • Regional anesthesia. • Invasive Monitoring including central Lines, arterial Lines, and pulmonary arterial catheters. • Pre-operative assessment and post-operative patient management. • Echocardiography and ultrasound assessment. Areas of practice include: General, cardiovascular, thoracic, bariatric, orthopedic, trauma, obstetric and gynecological, vascular, urological, ophthalomological, ENT, colorectal, and neurosurgery....

Jason C. Goodwin, RN, MS, MPH, CNOR

Granite Bay, California
Nursing Administration, General Surgery - AAAHC Surveyor, Professor of Nursing at Sacramento City College, Operating Room Nurse, Ambulatory Surgery Nurse, Legal Nurse Consultant, Life Care Planning, Perioperative Services Administration, Post Anesthesia Nurse, Procedural Sedation Nurse, GI procedures RN, CNOR, RN, Med Surg, Medical Devices
Clinical Experiences include:  Medical Surgical Nursing  Shock / Trauma Intervention  Procedural Services  Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative Care  Procedural Sedation  Clinical Educator Operational / Leadership Experiences include:  2003 Iraqi War Veteran  Multi-site surgical venues - UC Davis Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente  Level 1 Trauma academic medical center – UC Davis Medical Center  Military – Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, Operation Iraqi Freedom  Fee for service ambulatory surgery and procedural services – ABSMC Surgery Center  Clinic management – Perioperative Medicine Clinic, Kaiser Permanente -As a procedural department administrator and clinician, I have personally supervised the safe care in and around various procedures and operating room venues for 18 years, totaling approximately 300,000 individual patient encounters....

Susan M. Thibeault, DNAP, CRNA

Branford, Connecticut
Nurse Anesthetist, Anesthesiology - CRNA, hospital liability, airway, fire, aspiration, awareness, EMR/EHR Audit trails, capnography, dental, endoscopy, colonoscopy, intubation, non-OR anesthesia, monitored anesthesia care (MAC), overdose, oversedation, positioning, post anesthesia care unit, PACU, central line, propofol, sedation
...Clinical experience includes both operating room and non-operating room procedures. Head of CRNA quality and safety for Yale New Haven Hospital – a 1,500+ bed level 1 trauma center. Has reviewed numerous adverse events for deviations from standard of care. Extensive public speaking experience.

Larry Fishman, M.D.

Tampa, Florida
Neurological Surgery, Spine Surgery & Spine Care - Neurosurgeon, Neurosurgery, spine surgeon, Trauma, IMEs, Minimally Invasive Outpatient Surgery, Peripheral Nerves, Sacroiliac Joint Injection, disability, permanent impairment rating, future care costs, medical neccesity
...Current focus of spine surgery, peripheral nerves, injections and sacroiliac joints. 30 years emergency room call experience handling brain and spine trauma. Since residency has performed over 15,000 operations. Extensive peer review experience evaluating compliance with the standard of care. Highly experienced expert witness and independent medical examiner who has testified hundreds of times.

Timothy Hawkins, FACHE Hospital Experts

Cape Coral , Florida
Medical Management, Medical Devices - Hospital Administration, Hospital Liability, Joint Commission Standards, IRB Institutional Review Board, Medical Devices, daVinci Robot Credentialing, Operating Room, Informed Consent, Negligent Credentialing, Patient Safety, Environment of Care, Hospital Negligence
...Hawkins is an accomplished Hospital Executive with experience in hospital departmental operations and regional healthcare systems. He held the positions of Chief Executive Officer, Executive Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer. He is Board Certified in Healthcare Administration, and a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Sanford Kaminsky, AIA, NCARB m2e Consulting Engineers

Miami - Coral Gables, Florida
Architecture, Construction Defects - Standard of Care, Failure Analysis, Construction Documents, Defect, Change Order, Building, Design, Condominium, Hospitality, Casino, gaming, Code Compliance, Contract Document, Field Management, Contract Administration, Commercial, Highrise, Retail, Hotel, Condo-Hotel, Institutional and Industrial.
Member of The American Institute Of Architects, and Nationally Board Certified, With Over Forty Years Of Experience. Multi-Billion Dollars of Experience Both Designed and Constructed. Skills Include All Facets of Architectural Practice, Including Condominium Defect Mitigation That Would Dismantle A Class Action Lawsuit. Worldwide Project Experience Includes Retail, Office, Hotel, Institutional, Aerospace and Mixed-Use. Deposed On Standard Of Care, AHCA Regulations Regarding The Design Of A Class III Operating Room, And A Wrongful Death Based On My OSHA Certification. 40+ years experience in construction defect litigation support and expert witness services for both plaintiff and defense attorneys. Experienced in field investigations, Failure Analysis water intrusion analysis, specialty construction methods, development of repair methodologies and de-watering techniques, trial preparation and expert witness testimony....

Patrick J. Regan, DO

Fort Lauderdale, Florida
General Surgery - General/Acute Care Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery, Peer Review Chairman, Quality Committee Chairman, Standards of Care, Causation, Patient Safety, Operating Room Safety Standards, Operating Room Policies and Procedures, Sham Peer Review, External Peer Review, Federal/State cases.
...Regan has more than 25 years of experience in General Surgery, Acute Care Surgery, Trauma Surgery and the Medico-Legal realm. Dr Regan Trained at the World Renowned Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr Regan has built programs and is in active surgical practice. Dr Regan is actively teaching and holds academic appointments. He is Board Certified in General Surgery by the American Board of Surgery. In addition to his academic appointments, Dr Regan supervises other healthcare practitioners and is experienced in their scope of practice. Dr Regan also consults with the Prosecution Services Unit of the Florida Board of Medicine. He has extensive experience in the areas of Peer Review, External Peer Review, Sham Peer Review, Bad Faith Peer Review and medical staff quality issues having served both as a member and as Chairman of various hospitals Peer Review Committees and Quality Committees. Dr Regan also does External Peer Review for Chartis (formerly Greeley). Dr....

Cynthia Savor, BSN, RN Savor Nurse Consulting LLC

Cumming, Georgia
Nurse, Orthopedic Surgery - Outpatient orthopedics, ACLs, Knees, Shoulders, Foot and Ankle, Hand/ Upper extremity, Orthopedic oncology, Spine
I have been an operating room nurse for 23 years, the last 14 of those in outpatient orthopedics/ sports medicine. I have a background in level 1 and level 2 trauma procedures including spine, orthopedics, general surgery and neuro. I spent 7 years as a travel nurse at various hospitals in the southeast before settling on a staff nurse position in Atlanta at Emory Musculoskeletal Institute. We are a busy 6 OR outpatient facility, working with top physicians in their respective fields. I train perioperative nurses who come through the program and have spent years utilizing my experience with fellows, residents and athletic trainers. I have had experience with expert witness reviews, and have demonstrated to my attorneys that I am reliable and knowledgeable in my field of practice to carry out the standards of care to which we adhere to.

Chad R. Greene, D.O.

Nashville, Tennessee
Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology - General Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesia, Ambulatory Surgery, Spine Surgery, Dental Anesthesia, Obstetric anesthesia, Monitored Anesthesia Care, Sedation, Airway Management, Peripheral Nerve Blocks, Eye Blocks, Epidural & Spinal Anesthesia, Medication Errors, PACU, Nerve Injury, Positioning, OSA
...Past President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Resident Component and Member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Board of Directors. In full-time clinical practice with hands-on patient care and direction/supervision of CRNAs, residents, and medical students. • General anesthesia including: Induction and maintenance of anesthesia, ventilator management, intra-operative monitoring, management of emergence from anesthesia, and transportation to and from the operating room. • Airway management including endotracheal tubes, single-lung ventilation, and non-invasive techniques. • Epidural and spinal anesthesia. • Regional anesthesia. • Invasive Monitoring including central Lines, arterial Lines, and pulmonary arterial catheters. • Pre-operative assessment and post-operative patient management. • Echocardiography and ultrasound assessment....

Timothy Graham, MD Gratek Medical Legal Consulting

Middleton, Wisconsin
Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine - Medical Legal Consulting
...Graham is a board-certified anesthesiologist and critical care physician with a decade of experience practicing independently. He has experience as an ICU medical director, and his clinical practice has included extensive time working in operating rooms, intensive care units, and the many other procedural areas found in hospitals. Dr. Graham has been a lecturer for the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He completed his anesthesiology residency at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, OH, and then completed a fellowship in critical care medicine at Cleveland Clinic. In addition to traditional expert witness work, Dr. Graham does medical legal consulting that provides physician analysis to attorneys for pre-trial/pre-litigation matters in personal injury and worker’s compensation cases....