Sentinel Events Expert Witnesses

St. Petersburg, Florida

Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Medicine - EMS, ACLS, Medication Errors, Sentinel Events, Transfer of Care, Near Miss, Community Paramedic, Community Paramedicine, Paramedicine

Four years experience in high-risk community paramedicine. Four years experience in geriatric medicine. Three years experience in pediatric Level 1 trauma, critical care and cardiovascular critical care. Two years experience in acute care psychiatric emergency medicine. 1.5 years experience in a high volume 911 system.

New Jersey

Emergency Medicine, Medical Management - Quality of care, Patient Safety, Risk Management, Internal Medicine, Peer Review, Emergency Medicine, Accidents, EMTALA, Standard of Care, Malpractice, Medical decision making, Liability, Sentinel Events, Regulatory Compliance, Clinical governance, Patient safety protocol, Medical necessity, Informed consent, Negligence, Compliance

Dr. Ruzek s a board-certified emergency physician and experienced medical expert witness with extensive leadership experience in healthcare quality, patient safety, and clinical operations. He currently serves as Chief Quality Officer for a regional health system in North Carolina, where he oversees enterprise-wide quality improvement initiatives, regulatory compliance, peer review, risk reduction, and patient safety strategy. In addition to active clinical practice in emergency medicine, Dr. Ruzek has provided medical-legal consulting and expert witness services involving emergency care, standard of care, patient safety, clinical documentation, causation analysis, systems-based failures, and quality-related healthcare litigation. His unique combination of frontline clinical experience and executive healthcare leadership provides attorneys with both detailed clinical insight and a broader systems-level understanding of healthcare delivery and medical decision-making. Dr. Ruzek is ...

Fayetteville , North Carolina

Emergency Medicine, Medical Management - Quality of care, Patient Safety, Risk Management, Internal Medicine, Peer Review, Emergency Medicine, Accidents, EMTALA, Standard of Care, Malpractice, Medical decision making, Liability, Sentinel Events, Regulatory Compliance, Clinical governance, Patient safety protocol, Medical necessity, Informed consent, Negligence, Compliance

Dr. Ruzek s a board-certified emergency physician and experienced medical expert witness with extensive leadership experience in healthcare quality, patient safety, and clinical operations. He currently serves as Chief Quality Officer for a regional health system in North Carolina, where he oversees enterprise-wide quality improvement initiatives, regulatory compliance, peer review, risk reduction, and patient safety strategy. In addition to active clinical practice in emergency medicine, Dr. Ruzek has provided medical-legal consulting and expert witness services involving emergency care, standard of care, patient safety, clinical documentation, causation analysis, systems-based failures, and quality-related healthcare litigation. His unique combination of frontline clinical experience and executive healthcare leadership provides attorneys with both detailed clinical insight and a broader systems-level understanding of healthcare delivery and medical decision-making. Dr. Ruzek is ...

Houston, Texas

Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery - Standards of care, Chart review, Ventricular assist devices, Root cause analysis, Patient safety, OR Nursing standards, Retained surgical items, Adult congenital surgery, Operating room safety, Pediatric ECMO, Wrong-site surgery, Chest tube management, Complex congenital surgery, Heart Transplants, Sentinel events

Registered nurse with more than 27 years nursing experience, including 19 years specializing in pediatric, neonatal and adult congenital heart surgery within the cardiac operating room (CVOR). Emphasis in practice has focuses on high acuity, high risk pediatric and adult cardiac cases, including complex congenital repairs and mechanical circulatory support. Ms. Bailey has extensive expertise in perioperative standards of care related to pediatric and adult congenital heart surgery, with particular emphasis on ECMO cannulation and management, intraoperative safety, surgical counts, and the prevention and identification of intentionally retained foreign objects (IRFOs). In addition, she has led and participated in patient safety investigations, near miss reviews, and root cause analyses (RCA), and has actively involved in the development, implementation, and reinforcement of perioperative policies and procedures. Ms. Bailey's work includes medical record review, timeline development, ...