Paul Robert Swyer

Paul Robert Swyer is (fall 2005) Professor Emeritus, Paediatrics, University of Toronto, and Honorary Consultant Physician, Neonatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. He was chief of the Division of Neonatology from 1965 to 1986. He was a founding member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He has written 9 books, 34 book chapters, 105 articles, and 113 abstracts.

We thank Joseph Constantin, France, and professor David Hansell for information submitted.

• M. Delivoria-Papadopulos, P. R. Swyer:
  Assisted ventilation in terminal hyaline membrane diseases.
  Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1964, 34: 481-484.
• Paul R. Swyer:
  The Intensive Care of the Newly Born: Physiological Principles and Practice.
  Basel, Karger, 1975.
• Paul R. Swyer:
  Heat loss after birth.
  In: Temperature Regulation and Energy Metabolism in the Newborn, edited by J. C. Sinclair. New York: Grune and Stratton, 1978: 91-127.
• M. T. Clandinin, J. E. Chappell, S. Leong, T. Heim, P. R. Swyer, and G. W. Chance:
  Intrauterine Fatty Acid Accretion Rates in Human Brain: Implications for Fatty Acid Requirements.
  Early Human Development, Amsterdam, 1980, 4: 121-129.
• M. T. Clandinin, J. E. Chappell, S. Leong, T. Heim, P. R. Swyer, and G. W. Chance:
  Extrauterine Fatty Acid Accretion Rates in Human Brain: Implications for Fatty Acid Requirements. Early Human Development, Amsterdam, 1980, 4; 130-138.
• M. T. Clandinin, J. E. Chappell, T. Heim, P. R. Swyer, and G. W. Chance:
  Fatty Acid Accretion in the Development of Human Spinal Cord.
  Early Human Development, Amsterdam, 1981, 5: 1-6.
• M. T. Clandinin, J. E. Chappell, T. Heim, P. R. Swyer, and G. W. Chance:
  Fatty Acid Accretion in Fetal and Neonatal Liver: Implications for Fatty Acid Requirements.
  Early Human Development, Amsterdam, 1981, 5; 7-14.
• M. T. Clandinin, J. E. Chappell, T. Heim, P. R. Swyer, and G. W. Chance:
  Fatty Acid Utilization in Perinatal De novo Synthesis of Tissues.
  Early Human Development, Amsterdam, 1981, 5: 355-366.
• J. E. Chappell, G. W. Chance, T. Heim, P. R. Swyer, and M. T. Clandinin:
  Free Fatty Acid Content of Human Milk.
  Proceedings of Triennial Joint Meeting of AIN, ASCN and CSNS, Philadelphia. 1982.
• B. L. Reichman, P. Chessex, G. Putet, G. J. Verellen, J. M. Smith, T. Heim and P. R. Swyer:
  Partition of energy metabolism and energy cost of growth in the very low-birth-weight infant. Pediatrics, Springfield, Illinois, 1982, 69 (4): 446-451.
• R. A. Primhak, R. Jedeikin, G. Ellis, S. K. Makela, J. E. Gillan, P. R. Swyer, R. D. Rowe:
  Myocardial Ischaemia in Asphyxia Neonatorum. Electrocardiographic, Enzymatic and Histological Correlations.
  Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica, Stockholm, 1985, 74 (4): 595-600.
• P. J. Sauer, J. E. Van Aerde, P. B. Pencharz, J. M. Smith, P. R. Swyer:
  Glucose oxidation rates in newborn infants measured with indirect calorimetry and [U-13C]glucose. Clinical Science, London, June 1986, 70 (6): 587-593.
• J. E. Van Aerde, P. J. Sauer, P. B. Pencharz, J. M. Smith, P. R. Swyer:
  Effect of replacing glucose with lipid on the energy metabolism of newborn infants.
  Clinical Science, London, 1989, 76: 581–588.
• Paul R. Swyer:
  Energy Metabolism. In: Buford L. Nichols, Angel Ballabridge, Norman Kretschmer: History of Pediatrics 1850-1950, pp. 203-210. New York : Raven Press, 1991.
• Bernard L. Salle, Paul R. Swyer:
  Nutrition of the Low Birthweight Infant.
  Nestle Nutrition Workshop, volume 32. Lippincott, 1993.
• J. E. Van Aerde, P. J. Sauer, P. B. Pencharz, J. M. Smith, T. Heim, P. R. Swyer:
  Metabolic consequences of increasing energy intake by adding lipid to parenteral nutrition in term infants.
  The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1994, 59:659-662.