Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - Critical Care

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Michelle Edwards, MS, APRN, AGACNP-BC, ALNC is a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and medical expert witness with extensive experience in critical care and ICU-level practice. Her background includes management of complex, high-acuity patients involving sepsis, respiratory failure, cardiogenic shock, postoperative complications, neurological injury, and hospital-acquired conditions. In her current role in spine and pain management, Ms. Edwards evaluates and manages patients with acute and chronic pain conditions, including cases arising from personal injury and workers’ compensation matters. She provides objective expert analysis on ICU and post-acute standards of care, nursing and advanced practice provider decision-making, documentation, breach, and causation, and conducts comprehensive medical record reviews to support medical malpractice and serious injury litigation. Areas of Expertise • Critical care and ICU standards of care • Nursing and advanced practice provider (NP) clinical decision-making • Sepsis recognition and management • Respiratory failure and ventilator management • Cardiogenic shock and hemodynamic instability • Postoperative and post-procedural ICU care • Failure to rescue and delayed escalation of care • Medication management and medication-related errors • Hospital-acquired conditions and patient safety events • Documentation standards and medical record analysis • Breach of standard of care analysis • Causation and mechanism of injury analysis • Medical record review, timelines, and chronologies • Serious injury and medical malpractice case review