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Program Details
2026-04-23 13:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-04-23 13:00:00
1h CLE Credits
Intermediate
1
This segment examines clinical and legal differences between pediatric and adult emergency care, focusing on communication barriers, developmental factors, and caregiver reliance. It identifies high-risk pediatric presentations and highlights critical risk flags that should guide and prioritize litigation-focused record review.
Attendees learn a structured, step-by-step method to extract narratives from complex medical records, focusing on timestamps, vital sign trends, reassessments, evolving differentials, consults, escalation decisions, and discharge reasoning, building defensible timelines efficiently without being overwhelmed by volume or irrelevant details.
This portion examines high-risk clinical scenarios leading to liability, including evolving infections, missed surgical emergencies, and time-sensitive pediatric conditions, showing how missed deterioration, cognitive errors, and system failures appear in records and translate into identifiable clear potential breaches of care.
This segment bridges medical analysis and legal strategy, teaching attorneys to convert red flags into actionable case theories. Attendees will frame standard-of-care questions, analyze causation early, and develop targeted expert strategies, including expert selection and avoiding deposition and trial pitfalls.
The Pediatric Expert
The Pediatric Expert
Ayush Gupta, MD, is a dual board-certified physician in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine who serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor at LSU Health New Orleans while maintaining an active clinical practice at several children’s hospitals. In his daily work, he manages complex and high-acuity pediatric emergencies, bringing frontline insight into critical care decision-making and diagnostic challenges. Over the past decade, Dr. Gupta has also assisted attorneys nationwide as an expert witness in cases involving missed diagnoses, pediatric deaths, sexual abuse, injuries, and non-accidental trauma, offering medical clarity in high-stakes litigation. Motivated by frequent inquiries from attorneys seeking guidance on whether to pursue pediatric cases, he developed a CLE program to help legal professionals better evaluate and understand these matters from a medical perspective.
The Pediatric Expert
Ayush Gupta, MD, is a dual board-certified physician in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine who serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor at LSU Health New Orleans while maintaining an active clinical practice at several children’s hospitals. In his daily work, he manages complex and high-acuity pediatric emergencies, bringing frontline insight into critical care decision-making and diagnostic challenges. Over the past decade, Dr. Gupta has also assisted attorneys nationwide as an expert witness in cases involving missed diagnoses, pediatric deaths, sexual abuse, injuries, and non-accidental trauma, offering medical clarity in high-stakes litigation. Motivated by frequent inquiries from attorneys seeking guidance on whether to pursue pediatric cases, he developed a CLE program to help legal professionals better evaluate and understand these matters from a medical perspective.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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