A physiological approach to the timing of umbilical cord clamping at birth

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2015, Pages F355-F360

  Hooper, Stuart B ^a   Polglase, Graeme R ^a   Te Pas, Arjan B ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APNEA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BIRTH; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CIRCULATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; ISCHEMIA; LABOR STAGE 3; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG VENTILATION; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN CARE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; UMBILICAL CORD CLAMPING; UMBILICAL VENOUS RETURN; VENOUS RETURN; BLOOD SUPPLY; CONSTRICTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETUS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; METHODS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL CORD; UMBILICAL VEINS;

CONSTRICTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETUS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL CORD; UMBILICAL VEINS;

EID: 84934765863     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305703     Document Type: Review

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