Dr. Wendy Ketner is the Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs at Expert Institute. Dr. Ketner graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a medical degree from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. Dr. Ketner completed her training at Mount Sinai Beth Isreal where she participated in all aspects of general surgery, including routine hernia repairs, cholecystectomies, and appendectomies. She also performed mastectomies for breast cancer, and breast reconstruction, surgical oncology procedures, vascular surgery, including endovascular and open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, colorectal surgery for benign and malignant disease, as well as taking care of critically ill patients in the surgical intensive care unit. Her research was in post-mastectomy reconstruction and the surgical treatment of gastric cancer, on which she co-authored a textbook chapter. She also has a paper on the percutaneous delivery of stem cells after myocardial infarction.
This case takes place in Oklahoma and involves a patient who was admitted to the hospital after developing pneumonia. A laboratory test indicated the patient had a low blood-sodium level. A three percent intravenous saline solution was ordered for the…
This case involves a twenty-nine-year-old female who had retained products of conception (RPOC) following her delivery. The delivery was complicated by chorioamnionitis. The treating physician failed to recognize the RPOC for two weeks, resulting in a severe. As a result, the provider…
This case involves a patient who was transported to a hospital after experiencing a cardiac event. While the patient was being worked up and awaiting treatment, a nurse had several failed attempts at placing an IV line and reportedly deviated…
This case involves a fifty-six-year-old female patient who underwent treatment for difficulty swallowing both solids and liquids. The patient underwent several rounds of therapeutic dilations and barium swallows but was never fully worked to exclude malignancy as a cause of…
This oral implant case involves a sixty-five-year-old patient who was referred by her dentist to an oral surgeon after she underwent a procedure to insert two internal Heximplant titanium dental implants. She also underwent bone grafts to create a proper surface…
This case involves a sixty-year-old female patient that was having extreme lower back pain that prompted a visit to her family doctor for an evaluation. Twenty years earlier, the patient had previous back surgery to the L3-L4 spine. The patient…
This case involves a ten-year-old female who underwent a complicated tympanoplasty. During the procedure, the otolaryngology/audiology surgeon encountered a high jugular bulb and perforated through the vessel, which resulted in significant bleeding. During the recovery period, the patient experienced conductive hearing…
This case involves a 52-year-old female patient who required a tarsal tunnel release surgery on her right foot. Within one week of surgery, the patient developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy caused by bandages that were applied too tightly after surgery. …
This case involves a 40-year-old woman who presented for an elective laparotomy with lysis of adhesions, enterolysis, and abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo oophorectomy. During surgery, the Foley catheter was removed because the patient did not pass urine for some time and…