Karen L Lefler, MSN/Ed, ARNP, NNP-BC, LNC Expert Witness
Curriculum Vitae

Contact this Expert Witness

  • Company: ACP Legal Nurse Consulting, LLC
  • Phone: (704) 254-8521
  • Cell: (704) 254-8521
  • Website: www.acp-lnc.com

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

General Specialties:

Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine and Nurse Practitioner

Keywords/Search Terms:

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

Education:

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Georgetown Univerity; Masters of Science in Nursing/Certified educator, University of Phoenix; Legal Nurse Consultant, American Academy of Legal Nurse Consultants

Years in Practice:

38

Additional Information

38 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). Areas of expertise include EPI (Extremely Preterm Infants), brain injury (therapeutic hypothermia/body cooling), birth injury, infants with respiratory failure, congenital heart disease, neonatal resuscitation, pediatric/cardiothoracic surgical infants, ECMO (heart lung bypass) high-risk deliveries, routine newborn care, newborn developmental follow-up and neonatal transport