BACKGROUND Due to clinical benefits, delayed cord clamping (DCC) is recommended in infants born before 37 weeks gestational age. The objective was to institute a delayed cord clamping program and to evaluate clinical outcomes one year after initiation. METHODS This study occured at Christiana Care Health System, a tertiary care facility with a 52 bed level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU...

A birth involving shoulder dystocia can rapidly deteriorate-from a fetus with a reassuring tracing in the minutes before birth, to a neonate needing aggressive resuscitation. Infants experiencing a traumatic birth involving shoulder dystocia may be severely compromised, even when the preceding labor was uncomplicated. This paper presents two cases in which infants had normal heart beats recorde...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to evaluate the hematological effects of umbilical cord clamp timing and delivery type in term infants 48 hours after birth in Imam Hossein Hospital, Tehran, Iran. METHOD From Oct 2007 - March 2008, 100 mother-infant eligible pairs were selected and divided by cord clamp timing (< or =15 s and >15 s) for hematologic value determination between the two groups...

Background: Aim of the current study was to evaluate effect delayed cord clamping on hemoglobin level among newborns and look for any adverse effects following clamping. Methods: Total 60 were enrolled in randomly allocated either control (early 15 secs) cases (delayed 3 mins). Samples collected labor room, during birth check hemoglobin, billirubin hematocrit levels two groups. Follow up data p...

OBJECTIVE We investigated whether propofol, a widely used anesthetic, injected into clamped aortic segments quickly attenuated transcranial spinal motor-evoked potential (MEP) amplitudes and protected against spinal cord injury during thoracoabdominal aortic surgery. METHODS Eighteen beagle dogs were divided into three groups (n=6, each group): group 1 (20 ml of saline, intra-aortic injection...

Bhatt et al’s paper provides a good argument for ensuring that ventilation is established before clamping the umbilical cord (1). The possibility that very early clamping could explain the increased occurrence of intraventricular hemorrhage was proposed in 1988 by Hofmeyr (2) who showed that in human babies there was a marked rise in arterial pressure when the cord was clamped as late as 35 s a...

BACKGROUND Risks and benefits of increasing placental transfusion in extremely preterm infants (extremely low birthweight [ELBW], <1000 g) are ill defined. We performed a meta-analysis to compare long- and short-term outcomes of ELBW infants in trials of enhanced placental transfusion regimens. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of del...

Objectives: Evaluation of the hematological parameter in newborn by delayed cord clamping at 60 s and 180 s. Comparison improvement parameters, that is, hemoglobin serum ferritin both methods. Methods: This was randomized, controlled, comparative study conducted during April 2021 to February 2022 Department Obstetrics Gynaecology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur. The included sample size cases (30 ...

ObjectiveTo gain insight into pregnant women’s preferences if given a choice between getting antibiotic prophylaxis before or after cord clamping during caesarean delivery.Study designA qualitative semi-structured interview-study. The interviews were conducted at Danish Hospital, with about 4000 deliveries year. Fourteen individual women, either considering having planned section, scheduled for...