Ventilation before umbilical cord clamping improves the physiological transition at birth

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Bhatt, Sasmira ^a   Polglase, Graeme R ^a   Wallace, Euan M ^a   te Pas, Arjan B ^b   Hooper, Stuart B ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Delayed cord clamping; Neonatal; Preterm birth; Transition; Umbilical cord clamping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925368445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fped.2014.00113     Document Type: Review

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