Dr. Robert G Locke DO
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Specialist | Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
4745 Ogletown Stanton Rd Suite 217 Medical Ar Newark DE, 19713About
Dr. Robert Locke is a Neonatal-Perinatal Physician practicing in Newark, DE. Dr. Locke cares for the critically ill newborn and premature infants. Neonatal-Perinatal Physicians treat conditions such as breathing disorders, birth defects, infections, and any other life-threatening medical problems. They coordinate with their young patients families and other physicians to determine appropriate treatment.
Education and Training
Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences 1986
Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences Medicine
Board Certification
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- MOMMA. Multi-centered On-going Mothers Monitoring Algorithm for perinatal behavioral health.
- Increased respiratory drive and limited adaptation to loaded breathing in bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
- Stress in fathers of surgical neonatal intensive care unit babies.
- Attitudes toward pay-for-performance initiatives among primary care osteopathic physicians in small group practices.
- Increased preeclampsia in mothers delivering very low-birth-weight infants between 1994 and 2006.
- Reduced mortality and increased BPD with histological chorioamnionitis and leukocytosis in very-low-birth-weight infants.
- Increased odds of necrotizing enterocolitis after transfusion of red blood cells in premature infants.
- Decreased incidence of pneumothorax in VLBW infants after increased monitoring of tidal volumes.
- Knowledge of preconception health care among primary care physicians in Delaware.
- Prolonged early antibiotic use and bronchopulmonary dysplasia in very low birth weight infants.
- Increased monocytes and bands following a red blood cell transfusion.
- Use of neonatal simulation models to assess competency in bag-mask ventilation.
- Effects of different intermittent mandatory ventilation rates on oxygen consumption in premature infants recovering from respiratory distress syndrome.
Professional Memberships
- Member American Osteopathic Association, DO
Dr. Robert G Locke DO's Practice location
Practice At 4745 Ogletown Stanton Rd Suite 217 Medical Arts Pavilion One
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