Evidence · Randomised trial
Umbilical cord milking improves transition in premature infants at birth.
- Cord management
- Delivery room and stabilisation
- Medical
- Newborn life support
- Nursing
- Preterm stabilisation
This paper is from 2014, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
Randomised controlled trial comparing umbilical cord milking with immediate cord clamping in infants born before 32 weeks' gestation at a tertiary centre. Blinded analysis of delivery room physiological data examined heart rate, oxygen saturation, mean airway pressure and inspired oxygen during transition. Infants receiving cord milking had higher heart rates and saturations in the first five minutes and less oxygen exposure over ten minutes. The authors suggest cord milking is quick to perform and may aid stability when resuscitation is needed.
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