Picc Expert Witnesses

San Diego, California

Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Nurse - Neonatal ICU/NICU, Pediatrics, birth injury, malpractice, prematurity, Critical Care (CC), wrongful death, sepsis/infection, medication error, neonatal transport, Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), necrotizing fasciitis, vacuum assist, meconium, PICC, Central Venous lines, hemorrhage, hypoxemia (HIE), ETT, brain injury

Karen Doyle is an actively working Certified Advanced Life Support Neonatal Nurse with 39+ years in-hospital Nursing. She has served as a Neonatal/Pediatric Legal Nurse Expert for 27+ years with extensive experience in Legal Medical Review, Depositions, and Trials. Her primary responsibility in the hospital setting is providing the most advanced, complex, and comprehensive care and resuscitation of the critically-ill neonate both in the NICU and Labor & Delivery setting. She is a Nurse Expert skilled in all Neonatal Advanced Life Support Procedures, critical neonatal care, and also serves as an Expert regarding the Neonatal Standards of Care, Policies and Procedures. Karen's expertise encompasses the Pediatric population as well with 16 years in-hospital experience in the Acute Pediatric Care Unit and Pediatric ICU. Her reviews are thorough yet efficient, her reports and timelines serve as excellent resources, her vast Nursing experience enables her to apply the most current Standar...

Sneads Ferry, North Carolina

Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine, Nurse Practitioner - 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...