Myra Wyckoff, M.D.
Associate Professor

Dr. Wyckoff earned her engineering science degree from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. She then came to UTSW Medical Center at Dallas for medical school and subsequently stayed for General Pediatrics training. She remained at UTSW for Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine training and worked under Phil Shaul, MD on a project which elucidated how plasma membrane estrogen receptors are coupled to eNOS production via G-protein signaling. Upon completion of sub-specialty training she joined the faculty of UTSW Pediatrics Department to become the director of Newborn Resuscitation Services at Parkland Memorial Hospital, a large, urban county hospital with over 14,000 deliveries annually. She developed and coordinates an educational rotation in newborn resuscitation for the senior pediatric house-officer and oversees the continued development of the high-risk resuscitation team. Dr. Wyckoff maintains and utilizes one of the most comprehensive neonatal resuscitation databases in the country to continually try to improve neonatal resuscitation processes locally and nationally. Prospective resuscitation protocols are studied in the delivery room and she has developed a neonatal piglet model of asphyxia-induced hypotension/bradycardia and asphyxia-induced asystole to better elucidate the hemodynamics and optimize resuscitation strategies during CPR in the controlled setting of the laboratory. She has served on the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, Newborn Subsection since 2003. She has served on the American Academy of Pediatrics Neonatal Resuscitation Program Steering Committee since 2006 and was names Co-chair in 2011.

• Neonatal & Perinatal Medicine
• Pediatrics

• Asphyxia
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
• Neonatal Resuscitation
• Oxygen Toxicity
• Temperature Stabilization

• Neonatal Resuscitation

Featured Publications

Delivery Room Resuscitation

Wyckoff MH In: Rudolph CD, Rudolph AM, Lister GE, First LR, Gershon AA, eds. Rudolph?s Pediatrics. 2011 22nd ed. New York, NY. Mc 164-170

Critical Hemodynamics of neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Wyckoff MH NeoReviews 2010 11 e123-e129

Part 15: neonatal resuscitation: 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

13. Kattwinkel J, Perlman JM, Aziz K, Colby C, Fairchild K, Gallagher J, Hazinski MF, Halamek LP, Kumar P, Little G, McGowan JE, Nightengale B, Ramirez MM, Ringer S, Simon WM, Weiner GM, Wyckoff M, Zaichkin J. Circulation 2010 122 S909-919

Optimizing chest compressions during delivery room resuscitation.

Wyckoff MH, Berg RA Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 2008 13 410-415

Endotracheal delivery of medications during neonatal resuscitation

Wyckoff MH, Wylie J. Clin Perinatol 2006 33 153-60.

The two-thumb is superior to the two-finger method for administering chest compressions in a manikin model of neonatal resuscitation

Christman C, Hemway RJ, Wyckoff MH, Perlman JM Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2011 96 F99-F101

End-tidal CO2 detection of an audible heart rate during neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation following asystole in asphyxiated piglets.

Chalak LF, Barber CA, Hynan L, Garcia D, Christie L, Wyckoff MH. Pediatric Res 2011 69 401-405

Extended series of cardiac compressions during CPR in a swine model of perinatal asphyxia

Solevag AL, Dannevig I, Wyckoff MH, Saustad OD, Nakstad B. Resuscitation 2010 81 1571-76

Randomized trial of volume infusion during resuscitation of apshyxiated neonatal piglets

Wyckoff MH, Garcia D, Perlman JM, Laptook AR. Pediatric Research 2007 61 415-20

Endotracheal versus intravenous epinephrine during neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the delivery room

Barber CA, Wyckoff MH. Pediatrics 2006 118 1028-34

• Elected Co-Chair of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program Steering Committee
  American Academy of Pediatrics (2011)
• Faculty Teaching Award
  Awarded by UTSW Pediatric Residents (2011)
• Election to Perinatal Research Society
  Perinatal Research Society (2008)
• Election to Society for Pediatric Research
  Academic Research Society (2006)
• AOA
  Medical Academic Honor Society (1994)

• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Dallas County Medical Society
• Perinatal Research Society
• Society for Pediatric Research
• Texas Medical Association