Professor of Pediatrics, University of Chicago Medicine
Neonat/Perinatology
Dr. William L. Meadow, MD
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William Meadow practices Neonat/Perinatology. He graduated from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He received 3 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors" and "Super Doctor". William Meadow is a published doctor. He has 93 papers published. The most current publication "A proactive, data-based determination of the standard of medical care in pediatrics."
Publications
- Trends and challenges in United States neonatal intensive care units follow-up clinics.
- National Variability in Neonatal Resuscitation Practices at the Limit of Viability.
- Editors' Comments.
- Acute haemodynamic effects of inhaled nitric oxide in premature infants with mild-to-moderate respiratory distress.
- Have the boundaries of the 'grey zone' of perinatal resuscitation changed for extremely preterm infants over 20 years?
- The nonimpact of gestational age on neurodevelopmental outcome for ventilated survivors born at 23-28 weeks of gestation.
- Costs and End-of-Life Care in the NICU: Lessons for the MICU?
- Marketing fast food: impact of fast food restaurants in children's hospitals.
- Statistics, not memories: what was the standard of care for administering antenatal steroids to women in preterm labor between 1985 and 2000?
- Selective inhibition of thromboxane synthetase reduces group-B-beta-hemolytic-streptococci-induced pulmonary hypertension in piglets.
- Putting futility to use in the NICU: ethical implications of non-survival after CPR in very low-birth-weight infants.
- Inflammatory mediators and neonatal sepsis. Rarely has so little been known by so many about so much.
- Effects of inhibition of endothelium-derived relaxation factor on hemodynamics and oxygen utilization during group B streptococcal sepsis in piglets.
- Can and should level II nurseries care for newborns who require mechanical ventilation?
- Expert testimony, legal reasoning, and justice. The case for adopting a data-based standard of care in allegations of medical negligence in the NICU.
- Distributive justice across generations. Epidemiology of ICU care for the very young and the very old.
- The relationship between physician behaviors and blood gas values in the first hours of life--implications for "standards" of medical care for infants with respiratory...
- Physicians' experience with allegations of medical malpractice in the neonatal intensive care unit.
- Resource allocation in neonatal and medical ICUs. Epidemiology and rationing at the extremes of life.
- Obstetric management and group B streptococcal sepsis. Have we made progress? Has it made a difference?
- Effects of nebulized nitroprusside on pulmonary and systemic hemodynamics during pulmonary hypertension in piglets.
- A proactive, data-based determination of the standard of medical care in pediatrics.
- Correlation of flow probe determinations of common carotid artery blood flow and internal carotid artery blood flow with microsphere determinations of cerebral blood f...
- Kinetics of viscosity changes in sickle hemoglobin solutions.
- What is the legal 'standard of medical care' when there is no standard medical care? A survey of the use of home apnea monitoring by neonatology fellowship training pr...
- Transplacental immunity to varicella-zoster virus in extremely low birthweight infants.
- Hemodynamic effects of combining epinephrine with nitroglycerin or nitroprusside during group B streptococcal sepsis in piglets.
- Providing and forgoing resuscitative therapy for babies of very low birth weight.
- Clinical correlates do not predict PaO2 response after tolazoline administration in hypoxic newborns.
- Neonatology has always been a bargain--even when we weren''t very good at it!
- Babies between a rock and a hard place--neonatologists vs parents at the edge of infant viability.
- Resuscitation in the "gray zone" of viability: determining physician preferences and predicting infant outcomes.
- Epidemiology, economics, and ethics in the NICU: reflections from 30 years of neonatology practice.
- Odds ratios, and odd musings, about neonatal septic shock.
- Just, in time: ethical implications of serial predictions of death and morbidity for ventilated premature infants.
- Acute hemodynamic effects of caffeine administration in premature infants.
- Moral reflections on neonatal intensive care.
- Variation in the treatment of infants born at the borderline of viability.
- Categorizing neonatal deaths: a cross-cultural study in the United States, Canada, and The Netherlands.
- A premature infant with necrotizing enterocolitis whose parents are Jehovah's Witnesses.
- Power and limitations of daily prognostications of death in the medical intensive care unit.
- The value of a trial of therapy - football as a ''proof-of-concept''.
- Whom are we comforting? An analysis of comfort medications delivered to dying neonates.
- Early neonatal intensive care unit therapy improves predictive power for the outcomes of ventilated extremely low birth weight infants.
- Re-animating the ''slow code''.
- Ethics of resuscitation at different stages of life: a survey of perinatal physicians.
- Cardiopulmonary effects of nebulized sodium nitroprusside in term infants with hypoxic respiratory failure.
- Some are old, some are new: life and death in the ICU.
- Importance of bilirubin effect questioned.
- Changes in mortality for extremely low birth weight infants in the 1990s: implications for treatment decisions and resource use.
- Operationalizing the standard of medical care: uses and limitations of epidemiology to guide expert testimony in medical negligence allegations.
- End-of-life after birth: death and dying in a neonatal intensive care unit.
- Evidence-based expert testimony.
- The fiction of futility: what to do with policy?
- 500-gram infants--and 800-pound gorillas--in the delivery room.
- Relative contribution of endothelium-derived relaxation factor to vascular tone in the systemic, pulmonary, and cerebral circulations of piglets.
- The role of prostaglandins and endothelium-derived relaxation factor in the regulation of cerebral blood flow and cerebral oxygen utilization in the piglet: operationa...
- The effects of intravenous L-arginine supplementation on systemic and pulmonary hemodynamics and oxygen utilization during group B streptococcal sepsis in piglets.
- Vascular endothelium as a target and effector organ.
- Molecular pathophysiology in critical care illness.
- Hemodynamic homeostasis during acute hypoxia in septic and nonseptic piglets: differential role of prostaglandins and nitric oxide.
- Statistics, not experts.
- Current opinion in pediatrics: ethics and law 2001.
- Serial assessment of mortality in the neonatal intensive care unit by algorithm and intuition: certainty, uncertainty, and informed consent.
- Which nurseries currently care for ventilated neonates in Illinois and Wisconsin? Implications for the next generation of perinatal regionalization.
- Direct comparison of the effects of nebulized nitroprusside versus inhaled nitric oxide on pulmonary and systemic hemodynamics during hypoxia-induced pulmonary hyperte...
- Use of vasopressin in refractory hypotension in children with vasodilatory shock: five cases and a review of the literature.
- Patient acuity rating: quantifying clinical judgment regarding inpatient stability.
- Birth weight-specific mortality for extremely low birth weight infants vanishes by four days of life: epidemiology and ethics in the neonatal intensive care unit.
- Should the "slow code" be resuscitated?
- Group B streptococcal sepsis impairs cerebral vascular reactivity to acute hypercarbia in piglets.
- Ought 'standard care' be the 'standard of care'? A study of the time to administration of antibiotics in children with meningitis.
- Unsuspected mesenteric hypoperfusion despite apparent hemodynamic recovery in the early phase of septic shock in piglets.
- Salmonella enteritidis bacteremia in childhood.
- Nonhomogeneous redistribution of mesenteric blood flow after tolazoline during group B streptococcal sepsis in piglets.
- Successful therapy of unilateral pulmonary emphysema: mechanical ventilation with extremely short inspiratory time.
- The effects of temperature and carbon dioxide breathing on ventilation and acid-base status of turtles.
- Hemodynamic consequences of tolazoline in neonatal group B streptococcal bacteremia: an animal model.
- Endophthalmitis caused by Petriellidium boydii.
- "Bacteriological bit": Citrobacter diversus osteomyelitis in a neonate.
- Relationship between oxygen delivery and metabolic acidosis during sepsis in piglets.
- Effects of dextran infusion on cardiac output, oxygen delivery, and oxygen utilization in piglets during the first month of life.
- Internal jugular venous oxygen saturation does not reflect sagittal sinus oxygen saturation in piglets.
- Metoclopramide promotes enteral feeding in preterm infants with feeding intolerance.
- Epidemiology and ethics in the neonatal intensive care unit.
- Pediatric critical care physicians' attitudes about guidelines for the use of ribavirin in critically ill children with respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia.
- Time course of radiometric detection of positive blood cultures in childhood.
- Selective elevation of systemic blood pressure by epinephrine during sepsis-induced pulmonary hypertension in piglets.
- Neither nitroglycerin nor nitroprusside selectively reduces sepsis-induced pulmonary hypertension in piglets.
- Oxygen delivery, oxygen consumption, and metabolic acidosis during group B streptococcal sepsis in piglets.
- Early and late hemodynamic consequences of group B beta streptococcal sepsis in piglets: effects on systemic, pulmonary, and mesenteric circulations.
- Effects of phenylephrine on systemic and pulmonary artery pressure during sepsis-induced pulmonary hypertension in piglets.
Schools
University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine
Children39s Hospital Of Philadelphia
Chicago
Children39s Memorial Hospital
University of Chicago
Doctors Specialties
- Neonatal Medicine
- Neonat/Perinatology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors
- Super Doctor
Education
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University of Chicago -
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia -
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Hospital
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University of Chicago Medical Center -
MacNeal Hospital -
Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers -
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center
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