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The San Diego Chapter of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants presents "Hybrid Hearts: What Mechanical Circulatory Support Looks Like Today. 
The San Diego Chapter of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants presents Neuropsychological Evaluation: Plaintiff and Defense Perspectives
The San Diego Chapter of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants presents: Research, Experimentation & Exploitation of Human Cadavers, Bioethical Legal Focus Presentation
Dr. Lobatz is a Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the immediate past Chief-of-Staff of Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas with specialized interests as a neurologist in treatment and rehabilitation of brain injury, stroke, epilepsy, cognitive disorders, Parkinson’s disease, as well as treatment and rehabilitation of multiple trauma, orthopedic trauma, amputations, complex medical illness and spinal cord injury. As such, Dr. Lobatz provides direction and oversight of the entire rehabilitation program including the Brain
Liz Holakiewicz practices independently in the area of Life Care Planning and this presentation will focus on one of her recent cases. Brett Schreiber was the attorney from Thorsnes, Bartolotta, & McGuire handling the case and was recently named one of the Top 10 Personal Injury Litigators in San Diego. Kathleen Shallow has been an LNC since 1992 and worked with Mr. Schreiber on this matter.
I would like to share with you some information related to a case that I recently testified in for the defendant RN in a hearing before the BRN, Department of Consumer Affairs by an Administrative Law Judge of the Office of Administrative Hearings. The BRN alleged that the defendant RN restrained a mentally challenged female patient in the prone position. The charges included "Unprofessional conduct" and "Incompetence and/or Gross Negligence." The BRN was seeking to revoke the defendant RN’s nursing license.
Scott P. Leary, M.D., FACS, CS(C) is a spine fellowship-trained neurosurgeon at the Senta Clinic. His clinical practice and research focuses on the comprehensive care of spinal disorders, including spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease, spinal trauma, scoliosis, failed spine surgery syndrome, spinal tumors, and the evaluation of neck and back pain. He completed both neurosurgical spine training and an advanced orthopedic spine fellowship, a distinct combination that is unique in the San Diego medical community.
A jury awarded over $2.5 million to James Klotz in a medical malpractice lawsuit against a heart surgeon, his group practice and St. Anthony’s Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Klotz had been rushed to the hospital with a heart attack and a pacemaker was surgically implanted. He then developed a drug-resistant staph infection that resulted in 15 additional operations, 84 days in the hospital and the loss of his right leg, part of his left foot, a kidney and most of his hearing.
As most of you already know, Obstetrics is one of the most litigious areas for both medicine and nursing. When a pregnancy or delivery goes wrong, and the perfect ending is not realized, questions surface and fingers begin to point. Navigating a “Bad Baby” case can be both arduous and technically challenging.
You asked for it and we listened! In response to the request from many chapter members, we have scheduled a very interesting presentation on business management strategies. The focus of this session will be on time management techniques that are partially based on David Allen's book "Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress Free Productivity."
The Philanthropy Committee may have gotten a slow start in 2008, but it had an impressive year-end finish! Patty O’Sullivan started the year as the committee chair and began researching projects our chapter might get involved in that would support our deployed troops. Due to a family emergency, she had to step down as chair so I agreed to fill that position and attempt to carry on her vision, which was of special interest to me since I have been a volunteer with a non-profit organization that supports our troops for the past three years.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that 500,000 surgical deaths and complications which occur worldwide every year can be prevented.
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