Intrauterine passage of meconium may be due to fetal hypoxia, or it simply indicate a normal gastrointestinal tract maturation. Umbilical cord blood pH is the best available criterion for detecting hypoxia and making appropriate decisions about care after birth. To determine correlation umbilical arterial with stained liquor neonatal outcome. whether mode delivery had any influence on occurrenc...

Objective: Umbilical cord clamping time is a situation that should be planned before delivery. It recommended the umbilical clamped for at least 30–60 seconds after birth in healthy preterm and term newborns. There are few studies investigating effect of on blood gas. If 30 birth, it considered early clamping, if seconds, late clamping. In this study, we aimed to compare or with acid-base param...

BACKGROUND In an era increasingly focused on quality improvement and cost containment, more emphasis is being placed on wiser utilization of medical care resources. One underutilized resource in early neonatal care is umbilical cord blood. FINDINGS Umbilical cord blood can be utilized for admission laboratory studies in neonates thereby avoiding a significant phlebotomy event in the first min...

cord blood hematopoietic stem cells are widely used as an alternative source for hematopoietic stem cells transplant. increasing rate of patients who need hematopoietic stem cells transplant and many advantages of cord blood in comparison to bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells, have promoted banking of cord blood units. cord blood banking requires accurate steps in donor selection, cord blood ...

Umbilical cord blood is an alternative hematopoietic stem cell source for patients with hematologic diseases who can be cured by allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Initially, umbilical cord blood transplantation was limited to children, given the low cell dose infused. Both related and unrelated cord blood transplants have been performed with high rates of success for a variety of h...

Umbilical cord blood is a valuable source of haematopoietic stem cells. There is little information about whether religious affiliations have any bearing on attitudes to and decisions about its collection, donation and storage. The authors provided information about umbilical cord blood banking to expert commentators from six major world religions (Catholicism, Anglicanism, Islam, Judaism, Hind...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the cost-effectiveness of private umbilical cord blood banking. METHODS A decision-analytic model was designed comparing private umbilical cord blood banking with no umbilical cord blood banking. Baseline assumptions included a cost of $3,620 for umbilical cord blood banking and storage for 20 years, a 0.04% chance of requiring an autologous stem cell transplant, a 0....

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical value of lactate measurement and nucleated red blood cell (NRBC) counts when compared to base excess (BE) in the blood collected from the placental segment of the umbilical vein. METHODS 25 umbilical cords from premature babies were sampled after placental delivery and cord clamping. Babies were followed until discharge. Statistics involved linear regression...