Triage Errors Expert Witnesses

Los Angeles, California

Emergency Medicine, Nurse - prehospital care, behavioral health, vision loss, suicide , delayed treatment, stroke fallouts, falls, Nurse UCLA, missed sepsis, emergency room boarding patient, triage errors, mental health, restraints, behavioral detainment, Safety injury prevention, failure to rescue, wrongful death, nurse standard of care, causation analysis

Kim Pimentel, BSN, RN, MICN, CPI Instructor Emergency Nursing Expert Witness | Triage | Sepsis | Stroke | Patient Safety | Emergency Department Negligence I am an Emergency Department Clinical Nurse, Triage Nurse, and Mobile Intensive Care Nurse (MICN) with more than 23 years of experience practicing at a nationally recognized academic medical center and Level I Trauma Center. My practice focuses on emergency department standards of care, patient safety, triage decision-making, and identification of preventable failures resulting in serious injury, disability, vision loss, neurological impairment, cardiac arrest, or death. I provide expert analysis involving: • Sepsis misdiagnosis, delayed recognition, delayed treatment, and failure-to-rescue events • Missed stroke diagnosis, delayed stroke activation, delayed imaging, and neurological deterioration • Central Retinal Artery Occlusion (CRAO), acute glaucoma, elevated intraocular pressure, retinal emergencies, and preventable visio...

Timonium , Maryland

Emergency Medicine, Hospital Administration - missed diagnosis , Delayed Diagnosis , Trauma , Failure to admit , Medical Staff Leadership, Triage Errors , EMTALA violations , Chest Pain/Acute Coronary Syndrome , Stroke/TIA , Sepsis , Head Injury , Emergency Dept Throughput , Patient Flow , Observation Medicine, Hospital Administration, Department Operations , Hospital Policy

I am a Board-certified Emergency Medicine physician with over 16 years of clinical experience and current leadership roles across multiple emergency departments in Maryland. I have extensive experience in evaluating emergency care, with a focus on cases involving missed or delayed diagnosis, triage decision-making, and improper discharge or disposition. I regularly review cases involving chest pain and myocardial infarction, stroke and neurologic emergencies, sepsis, trauma evaluation, and other high-risk emergency presentations. I served as Medical Director for two free-standing emergency departments within the University of Maryland Medical System. Previously served as Director of Emergency Medicine at Carroll Hospital and as Systems Director for Emergency Medicine at LifeBridge Health, with medical directorship at Sinai Hospital, a large urban academic center. I currently serve as Director of Medical Education for the Emergency Departments at Sinai of Baltimore and Northwest Hos...

New York

Emergency Medicine, Nurse - prehospital care, behavioral health, vision loss, suicide , delayed treatment, stroke fallouts, falls, Nurse UCLA, missed sepsis, emergency room boarding patient, triage errors, mental health, restraints, behavioral detainment, Safety injury prevention, failure to rescue, wrongful death, nurse standard of care, causation analysis

Kim Pimentel, BSN, RN, MICN, CPI Instructor Emergency Nursing Expert Witness | Triage | Sepsis | Stroke | Patient Safety | Emergency Department Negligence I am an Emergency Department Clinical Nurse, Triage Nurse, and Mobile Intensive Care Nurse (MICN) with more than 23 years of experience practicing at a nationally recognized academic medical center and Level I Trauma Center. My practice focuses on emergency department standards of care, patient safety, triage decision-making, and identification of preventable failures resulting in serious injury, disability, vision loss, neurological impairment, cardiac arrest, or death. I provide expert analysis involving: • Sepsis misdiagnosis, delayed recognition, delayed treatment, and failure-to-rescue events • Missed stroke diagnosis, delayed stroke activation, delayed imaging, and neurological deterioration • Central Retinal Artery Occlusion (CRAO), acute glaucoma, elevated intraocular pressure, retinal emergencies, and preventable visio...

Hudson, Ohio

Emergency Medicine, Physician Assistant - Emergency Medicine PA, Physician Assistant, Advanced Practice Provider Standard of Care, Missed Stroke, Medical Malpractice, Failure to Recognize Sepsis, Triage Errors, Failure to Admit, Diagnostic Errors, Improper Discharge, Missed Pulmonary Embolism, Missed MI, Scope of Practice, Failure to Diagnose, Trauma Evaluation

I am a Physician Assistant specializing in emergency medicine and urgent care, with extensive experience in chart review and standard-of-care analysis for hospital quality and risk management. I provide medical-legal consultation and expert opinion for cases involving diagnostic errors, failures to diagnose, missed myocardial infarction or stroke, sepsis, improper discharge, and other ED or urgent care standard-of-care matters. I have practiced across multiple hospital and urgent care locations, including University Hospitals (Bedford Heights, Richmond Heights, Geauga, Portage, Twinsburg) and Cleveland Clinic (Mayfield Heights, Garfield Heights, Euclid, Warrensville Heights), gaining experience in diverse patient populations and high-acuity settings. My clinical expertise includes acute care, triage, diagnostic evaluation, emergency procedures, and patient management. I hold a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies, a Master of Health Sciences, and a Bachelor’s degree fr...