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Neonat/Perinatology
Dr. Bradley T. Thach, MD
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Dr. Bradley T. Thach is an expert in the field of Neonat/Perinatology. He attended Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Bradley Thach has written publications. He has 101 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Mechanisms of airway obstruction leading to apnea in newborn infants.'
Publications
- Crib Bumpers Continue to Cause Infant Deaths: A Need for a New Preventive Approach.
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- Deaths and near deaths of healthy newborn infants while bed sharing on maternity wards.
- Does swaddling decrease or increase the risk for sudden infant death syndrome?
- Developmental aspects of the upper airway: report from an NHLBI Workshop, March 5-6, 2009.
- The sudden infant death syndrome.
- Some aspects of clinical relevance in the maturation of respiratory control in infants.
- The role of arousal related brainstem reflexes in causing recovery from upper airway occlusion in infants.
- Deaths and injuries attributed to infant crib bumper pads.
- Aspiration of gastric contents in sudden infant death syndrome without cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Can we breathe and swallow at the same time?
- Where should baby be put back to sleep?
- Influence of sleep position experience on ability of prone-sleeping infants to escape from asphyxiating microenvironments by changing head position.
- Inhibitory effects of hyperthermia on mechanisms involved in autoresuscitation from hypoxic apnea in mice: a model for thermal stress causing SIDS.
- Heat stress and sudden infant death syndrome incidence: a United States population epidemiologic study.
- The brainstem and vulnerability to sudden infant death syndrome.
- Characterization of successful and failed autoresuscitation in human infants, including those dying of SIDS.
- Occurrence and mechanisms of sudden oxygen desaturation in infants who sleep face down.
- Racial disparity and modifiable risk factors among infants dying suddenly and unexpectedly.
- Spontaneous arousals in supine infants while swaddled and unswaddled during rapid eye movement and quiet sleep.
- Physiologic studies on swaddling: an ancient child care practice, which may promote the supine position for infant sleep.
- Tragic and sudden death. Potential and proven mechanisms causing sudden infant death syndrome.
- Laryngeal chemoreflexes and development.
- Clinical conference in pulmonary disease. Factors influencing upper airway closure.
- Respiratory origin of fluctuations in arterial blood pressure in premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome.
- Fast breaths, slow breaths, small breaths, big breaths: importance of vagal innervation in the newborn lung.
- Sleep, sleep position, and the sudden infant death syndrome: To sleep or not to sleep? That is the question.
- Unsafe sleep practices and an analysis of bedsharing among infants dying suddenly and unexpectedly: results of a four-year, population-based, death-scene investigation...
- Sleep influences on homeostatic functions: implications for sudden infant death syndrome.
- Sudden infant death syndrome: can gastroesophageal reflux cause sudden infant death?
- Changing infants' sleep position increases risk of sudden infant death syndrome. New Zealand Cot Death Study.
- Failure of autoresuscitation in weanling mice: significance of cardiac glycogen and heart rate regulation.
- Habituation of the infant arousal response.
- Characteristics of the infant arousal response.
- Suppression of sigma spindle electroencephalographic activity as a measure of transient arousal after spontaneous and occlusion-evoked sighs and startles.
- Feeding responses to free-flow formula in term and preterm infants.
- How does prone sleeping increase prevalence of sudden infant death syndrome?
- Reflux associated apnea in infants: evidence for a laryngeal chemoreflex.
- Sequential arousal and airway-defensive behavior of infants in asphyxial sleep environments.
- Arousals in infants.
- Effects of upper airway stimulation on swallowing, gasping, and autoresuscitation in hypoxic mice.
- A sleep position-dependent mechanism for infant death on sheepskins.
- Unintentional suffocation by rebreathing: a death scene and physiologic investigation of a possible cause of sudden infant death.
- The risk of sudden infant death.
- Impaired ventilation in infants sleeping facedown: potential significance for sudden infant death syndrome.
- Ventilatory sparing strategies and swallowing pattern during bottle feeding in human infants.
- Physical properties of bedding that may increase risk of sudden infant death syndrome in prone-sleeping infants.
- Quantifying the potential of infant bedding to limit CO2 dispersal and factors affecting rebreathing in bedding.
- Upper airway patency in the human infant: influence of airway pressure and posture.
- Selective bronchial obstruction for treatment of bullous interstitial emphysema.
- Intercostal muscle reflexes and sleep breathing patterns in the human infant.
- Hiccups in infants: characteristics and effects on ventilation.
- An animal model for airway sensory deprivation producing obstructive apnea with postmortem findings of sudden infant death syndrome.
- Recovery of airway patency after obstruction in normal infants.
- Coordination of breathing and swallowing in human infants.
- Evaluation of response time of a transcutaneous oxygen tension electrode.
- Influence of upper airway pressure changes on respiratory frequency.
- The efficacy of theophylline in premature infants with mixed and obstructive apnea and apnea associated with pulmonary and neurologic disease.
- Pharyngeal airway obstruction in preterm infants during mixed and obstructive apnea.
- Breathing pattern and transcutaneous oxygen tension during motor activity in preterm infants.
- Genioglossus muscle responses to upper airway pressure changes: afferent pathways.
- Influence of upper airway pressure changes on genioglossus muscle respiratory activity.
- A pattern of medication-induced persistent bulbar and cervical dystonia.
- Control of genioglossus muscle inspiratory activity.
- Pediatric aspects of the sleep apnea syndrome.
- Prolonged apnea associated with upper airway protective reflexes in apnea of prematurity.
- Pathophysiology of sudden upper airway obstruction in sleeping infants and its relevance for SIDS.
- Characteristics of upper airway chemoreflex prolonged apnea in human infants.
- Postoperative apnea after caudal anesthesia in an ex-premature infant.
- Influence of upper airway negative pressure reflex on response to airway occlusion in sleeping infants.
- Effect of maturation on spontaneous recovery from hypoxic apnea by gasping.
- Effects of negative upper airway pressure on pattern of breathing in sleeping infants.
- Characterization of prolonged apneic episodes associated with respiratory syncytial virus infection.
- Pharyngeal fluid clearance and aspiration preventive mechanisms in sleeping infants.
- Maturation of cardiorespiratory interactions in spontaneous recovery from hypoxic apnea (autoresuscitation).
- Reflex induced apneas.
- Coordination of breathing, sucking, and swallowing during bottle feedings in human infants.
- Sudden death in infants sleeping on polystyrene-filled cushions.
- Effect of pentobarbital on spontaneous recovery from hypoxic apnoea in mice.
- Mechanism of failure of recovery from hypoxic apnea by gasping in 17- to 23-day-old mice.
- Mechanisms underlying induced autoresuscitation failure in BALB/c and SWR mice.
- Neuromuscular control of upper airway patency.
- Quantitative assessment of oral tactile sensitivity in pre-term and term neonates, and comparison with adults.
- Behçet syndrome with "aphthous colitis".
- Experimental meconium aspiration: Effects of glucocorticoid treatment.
- Mechanisms of airway obstruction leading to apnea in newborn infants.
- Respiratory response to airway occlusion in infants: sleep state and maturation.
- Sighing in newborn human infants: role of inflation-augmenting reflex.
- Maturational effects on respiratory responses to carbon dioxide in premature infants.
- Maturational changes of effective elastance in the first 10 days of life.
- Effect of ether on control of rate and depth of breathing in newborn rabbits.
- Respiratory patterns during progressive asphyxia in newborn rabbits.
- Spontaneous neck flexion and airway obstruction during apneic spells in preterm infants.
- Maturation of reflexes influencing inspiratory duration in human infants.
- Maturation of respiratory control in unanesthetized newborn rabbits.
- A neuromuscular mechanism maintaining extrathoracic airway patency.
- Oral facial dyskinesia accociated with prolonged use of antihistaminic decongestants.
- Pharyngeal airway-stabilizing function of sternohyoid and sternothyroid muscles in the rabbit.
- Frequency and significance of swallowing during prolonged apnea in infants.
- Regulation of upper airway maintaining muscles during progressive asphyxia.
Schools
Washington Univ Sch Of Med
Chldns Hospital
Children39s Hospital Boston
Doctors Specialties
- Neonatal Medicine
- Neonat/Perinatology
Accepted Insurances
Education
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Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Hospital
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St. Louis Children's Hospital
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