Trial reportItalian journal of pediatrics2020
A randomized controlled study of immediate versus delayed umbilical cord clamping in infants born by elective caesarean section.
Trial report in Italian journal of pediatrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03878602 (Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping in Elective Caesarean Section), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping in Elective Caesarean Section: What Are the Benefits
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- 2025 Korean Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Part 9. Neonatal resuscitation.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2026Guideline
- Umbilical cord milking and delayed cord clamping for the prevention of neonatal hypoglycaemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Pooled it
- Early or delayed cord clamping during transition of term newborns: does it make any difference in cerebral tissue oxygenation?Italian journal of pediatrics · 2024Trial
- Extra-uterine placental transfusion and intact-cord stabilisation of infants in caesarean sections: an intervention development and pilot-study (INTACT-1).BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Oxygen saturation and heart rate in healthy term and late preterm infants with delayed cord clamping.Pediatric research · 2024Review
- Comparing delayed cord clamping and umbilical cord milking during elective cesarean section for the neonatal outcome.European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X · 2023Article
- The Short and Long Term Consequences of Delayed Cord Clamping on Late Pre-Term Infants.International journal of women's health · 2023Article
- Effects of spontaneous first breath on placental transfusion in term neonates born by cesarean section: A randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Developments in pediatrics in 2020: choices in allergy, autoinflammatory disorders, critical care, endocrinology, genetics, infectious diseases, microbiota, neonatology, neurology, nutrition, ortopedics, respiratory tract illnesses and rheumatology.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2021Review
- Timing of umbilical cord clamping among infants with congenital heart disease.Progress in pediatric cardiology · 2020Article
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8 authors at 8 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundDelayed umbilical cord clamping is associated with greater haemoglobin concentration and iron storage between 3 and 6 months of life and with less need of blood transfusion and lower incidence of neonatal hypotension compared to early umbilical cord clamping.
methodsThe aim was to test the hypothesis that delayed cord clamping is better than early cord clamping in term infants born by elective caesarean section. Group A was subjected to immediate cord clamping while in the Group B, the umbilical cord was clamped 1 min after birth. Primary aim was revealed the difference in pre-ductal saturation between two groups while secondary aim was investigating the difference in HR, Ht, bilirubin and glycaemia. Pre-ductal SpO
results132 newborns were enrolled in the study and allocated in ratio 1:1 to group A or B. Delayed cord clamping did not improve SpO
conclusionsGroup B did not reveal any differences in SpO
trial registrationUmbilical Cord Clamping: What Are the Benefits; NCT03878602. Registered 18 March 2019 retrospectively registered.
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