Nurse Expert Witness in Emergency Medicine

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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 vision loss • Triage errors, ESI misclassification, failure to recognize high-risk vital signs, and delayed escalation of care • Emergency department overcrowding, boarding, prolonged wait times, delayed physician evaluation, and waiting-room deterioration • Patient deterioration due to lack of bed availability, inadequate reassessment, delayed intervention, staffing shortages, and failure to recognize worsening clinical conditions • Failure to provide appropriate cardiac, respiratory, neurological, or continuous physiologic monitoring resulting in preventable adverse outcomes • Cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, sepsis progression, stroke progression, and other preventable complications occurring during prolonged emergency department stays • Failure to utilize qualified medical interpreters resulting in misdiagnosis, unsafe discharge, inadequate informed consent, or lack of patient understanding • Emergency department falls, inadequate monitoring, failure of fall precautions, staffing-related safety failures, and preventable patient injuries • Psychiatric emergencies, suicide risk assessment failures, 5150/5585 hold management, patient elopement, and behavioral health safety breaches • Workplace violence, aggression, assault, and failures to identify escalating behavioral threats resulting in injury to patients, visitors, or healthcare personnel • EMS-to-hospital communication failures and breakdowns in continuity of emergency care As a CPI Instructor with more than seven years of experience training physicians, nurses, and healthcare professionals, I provide expert analysis regarding violence prevention, aggression management, behavioral crisis response, restraint-related injuries, staff safety, and patient safety failures involving psychiatric and behavioral emergencies. I provide objective medical record review, standard-of-care evaluation, causation analysis for plaintiff and defense counsel nationwide.