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Faculty Detail    
Name WALDEMAR A CARLO
 
Campus Address 176F 9380
Phone  (205) 934-4680
E-mail  wcarlo@peds.uab.edu
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Faculty Appointment(s)
Appointment Type Department Division Rank
Center  Center for Women's Reproductive Health  Center for Women's Reproductive Health Professor Distinguished
Center  Civitan International Research Center  Civitan International Research Center Professor Distinguished
Center  Ctr for Clinical & Translational Sci  Ctr for Clinical & Translational Sci Professor Distinguished
Primary  Ped - Neonatology  Ped - Neonatology Professor Distinguished



Research/Clinical Interest
Title
Description
Waldemar A. Carlo, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Division of Neonatology, Director of the Regional NICU at UAB and the NICU at the Children’s Hospital of Alabama protects 50% of his time for research through the NICHD Cooperative Neonatal Research Network Grant. The major goals of this project are to work with the NICHD and the Steering Committee to prioritize, plan, implement, analyze, interpret, and report a series of randomized and observational studies and resolve current and further controversies in neonatal care.

Selected Publications 
Publication PUBMEDID
Mariani G, Cifuentes J, Carlo WA. Randomized trial of permissive hypercapnia in preterm infants. Pediatrics 104:1082-1088,1999.   
Ambalavanan N, Carlo WA. Analgesia for ventilated neonates: Where do we stand. J Pediatr 135:403-405,1999.   
Morse SB, Haywood MD, Goldenberg RL, Bronstein J, Nelson KG, Carlo WA. Estimation of neonatal outcome and perinatal therapy utilization. Pediatrics 105:1046-1050, 2000.   
Ambalavanan N, Nelson K, Alexander G, Carlo WA. Prediction of neurologic morbidity and its determinants in ELBW infants by neural networks and by regression techniques. J Perinatol 20:496-503, 2000.   
Niermeyer S, Kattwinkel J, Van Reempts P, Nadkarni V, Phillips B, Zideman D, Azzopardi D, Berg R, Boyle D, Boyle R, Burchfield D, Carlo W, Chameides L, Denson S, Fallat M, Gerardi M, Gunn A, Hazinski MF, Keenan W, Knaebel S, Milner A, Perlman J, Saugstad OD, Schleien C, Solimano A, Speer M, Toce S, Wiswell T, Zaritsky A. International Guidelines for Neonatal Resuscitation: An excerpt from the Guidelines 2000 for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care: International Consensus on Science. Contributors and Reviewers for the Neonatal Resuscitation Guidelines. Pediatrics Sep;106:E29, 2000.   
Carlo WA: Gentle Ventilation and permissive hypercapnia in neonates. Perspect Neonatal 1:4-16, 2000.   
Carlo WA, Stark AR, Wright LL, Tyson JE, Papile LA, Shankaran S, Donovan EF, Oh W, Bauer CR, Saha S, Poole K, Stoll B. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. Minimal ventilation to prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasia in extremely-low-birth-weight infants. (J Pediatrics 2001)   
Zideman D, Zaritsky A, Carlo W, Osmond MH, Gausche-Hill M, Hazinski MF, Rasmussen GE, Nadkarni VM. Airways in pediatric and newborn resuscitation. International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation Airways in pediatric and newborn resuscitation. Ann Emerg Med. Apr;37:S126-36,2001.Lemons JA, Bauer CR, Oh W, Korones SB, Papile LA, Stoll BJ, Verter J, Temprosa M, Wright LL, Ehrenkranz RA, Fanaroff AA, Stark A Carlo W, Tyson JE, Donovan EF, Shankaran S, Stevenson DK. Very low birth weight outcomes of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network, January 1995 through December 1996. NICHD Neonatal Research Network. Pediatrics 107:E1, 2001.   
Stark AR, Carlo WA, Tyson JE, Papile LA, Wright LL, Shankaran S, Donovan EF, Oh W, Bauer CR, Saha S, Poole WK, Stoll BJ. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. Adverse effects of early dexamethasone in extremely-low-birth-weight infants. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. NEJM 344:95-101, 2001.   
Cifuentes J, Bronstein J, Phibbs CS, Phibbs RH, Schmitt SK, Carlo WA. Mortality in low birth weight infants according to level of neonatal care at hospital of birth. (Pediatrics, 2002)