Body Cooling Expert Witnesses
Body cooling expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on body cooling. The body cooling expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine and Nurse Practitioner.
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Karen L Lefler, MSN/Ed, APRN, NNP-BC, LNC
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner/NICU RN Expert Witness
ACP Legal Nurse Consulting, LLC
Sneads Ferry, North Carolina
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Nurse Practitioner
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Newborn, HIE, brain inury, Birth Injury, bowel perforation, central line, Prematurity, low birth weight, umbilical catheter, PICC, sepsis, hypoglycemia, bilirubin, resuscitation, chest tube, intubation, arterial line, body cooling, home birth, respiratory failure
39 years of experience in the field of Neonatology/Newborn Care of which the past 29 years as a Board-Certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, primarily functioning in the maximum level of Neonatal Intensive Care Units (Level IV). Actively working in NICU.
Areas of expertise include EPI (Extremely Premature Infant), brain injury (therapeutic hypothermia/total body cooling), infants with respiratory failure, ECMO (heart/lung bypass), congenital heart defects, high risk neonatal deliveries, meconium aspiration of the newborn, care of medically complicated infants (infants with tracheostomies and feeding tubes), pediatric cardio-thoracic surgical infants, Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (PPHN), routine newborn care and neonatal resuscitation.
Services provided:
*Review medical records and provide expert witness verbal or written report
*Identify standards of care and deviations from those standards
*Analysis of opposition expert's depositions
*Aid in the identificati...
