A single-center experience of implementing delayed cord clamping in babies born at less than 33 weeks' gestational age

Advances in Neonatal Care

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 371-376

  Aziz, Khalid ^a   Chinnery, Heather ^b   Lacaze Masmonteil, Thierry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b STOLLERY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cord clamping; Delayed cord clamping; Hypotension; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Neonatal resuscitation; Practice change; Preterm infant; Quality improvement; Staff education

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LIGATION; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; STATISTICS; TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL CORD;

ANEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; CONSTRICTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; GESTATIONAL AGE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INFANT, EXTREMELY PREMATURE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TIME FACTORS; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 84873597944     PISSN: 15360903     EISSN: 15360911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANC.0b013e3182761246     Document Type: Article

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