OB Nursing
Labor and delivery, postpartum care, fetal monitoring, maternal assessment, escalation, interventions, and documentation.
CLADDAGHCOUNSEL LLCBirth injury litigation
Claddagh Counsel LLC / birth injury clinical expertise
Birth Injury Expertise. Grounded in Clinical Practice.
Clinical case review for birth injury litigation, built around the medicine, the record, and the issues that will shape the case.
Birth Injury Case Screening
Start with the case.
You don’t need to know which expert you need before you call. We’ll help identify what the case needs.
Before deciding which experts a case needs, start with what the record shows.
01 / Review
What happened?
Review the labor and delivery course, fetal monitoring, clinical documentation, and relevant events surrounding the birth.
02 / Identify
What needs a closer look?
Identify significant events, missing records, documentation concerns, and questions involving nursing or physician care.
03 / Next Steps
What expertise does the case need?
Determine the clinical expertise needed for further review, from OB nursing and fetal monitoring to physician or other specialty review.
THE CLINICAL TEAM
The right expertise for the clinical question.
Birth injury cases can involve questions across the maternal, fetal, and neonatal course. Claddagh Counsel provides access to a multidisciplinary clinical team and can connect counsel with trusted independent specialists when the case calls for expertise outside our direct services.
Obstetric Physician Review
OB/GYN, maternal-fetal medicine, obstetric anesthesia, ultrasonography, and other physician review relevant to the maternal and fetal course.
Neonatal Review
NICU nursing, neonatal nurse practitioner, and neonatology review of newborn assessment, resuscitation, stabilization, treatment, and clinical progression.
Pediatric Neurology
Neurologic review following birth injury, including neonatal encephalopathy, seizures, brain injury, developmental concerns, and neurologic prognosis.
Policy & Procedure Review
Review of clinical policies, procedures, and practice standards relevant to the care at issue.
Hospital Operations & Systems Review
Review of staffing, communication, escalation, organizational oversight, quality processes, and other systems-level issues relevant to the clinical course.
EXPLORE ALL CLINICAL EXPERTISE
Specialty expertise may be provided directly through Claddagh Counsel or through independent referral based on the needs of the case.
TruHue® visual analysis
Fetal monitoring, made visible.
TruHue® places expert fetal monitoring interpretation directly on the original tracing using standardized color coding, giving litigation teams a clearer way to review the clinical course.
Explore TruHue®About Jaclyn
Sixteen years in clinical practice. Expertise that brings the record into focus.
Jaclyn Recker
BSN, RN, RNC-OB, RNC-IAP, C-EFM
- Triple Board Certified
- AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Instructor
- OB nursing expert witness: standard of care analysis
- TruHue® developer
- Experienced in providing testimony
- Member of AWHONN
- Member of AALNC
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Clinical practice
Actively practicing at the bedside in labor and delivery at a Level III maternal care hospital.
Proprietary method
See the Story in the Strip.
TruHue® places Jaclyn’s fetal monitoring interpretation directly on the original tracing, using standardized color-coded annotation to make changes in the fetal heart rate pattern easier to see and follow throughout litigation.
Client perspective
“The TruHue® report Jaclyn produced was invaluable to our case—it settled pre-suit.”
At a glance
When to utilize TruHue®
Early Case Review
- Pre-suit investigation
- Case screening & strategy
- Complaint preparation
- Timeline development
Discovery
- Deposition preparation
- Identify discrepancies in testimony and documentation
- Targeted deposition questioning
Trial
- Highlight key fetal monitoring periods
- Demonstrate changes over time
- Support clear presentation of the tracing
Case types
Every part of the clinical picture tells us something.
Fetal monitoring, maternal condition, labor progression, medications, communication, escalation, operative delivery, and neonatal findings all contribute to the clinical picture. Bring us the case. We’ll help identify which clinical issues deserve a closer look.
Fetal heart rate abnormalitiesOxytocin and tachysystoleMaternal deteriorationPlacental abruptionUterine ruptureHypertensive emergenciesInfectionOperative deliveryDocumentationChain of commandNeonatal Resuscitation
Attorney education
Know the medicine behind the case.
Small-group, cohort-based education for attorneys, law firms, and legal nurse consultants—both independent and in-house—seeking to deepen their knowledge of obstetric concepts and strengthen their application to litigation.
Let’s talk
Have a birth injury case you’re not quite sure what to make of? Let’s take a look.
