Delayed cord clamping: are we ready to listen to the doctor from 1796?

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Time to Delay: A Literature Review of Delayed Cord Clamping

The timing of umbilical cord clamping during the third stage of labor has been a point of contention for many years. The estimated combined blood-volume of the fetal and placental unit is 105-110 ml/ kg [1,2]. Two thirds of this volume is in the fetal circulation and one third in the placenta. In his publication “Zoonomia; or The Laws of Organic Life” originally published in 1794, Erasmus Darwi...

Is "Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping" Beneficial for Premature Newborns?

Background: The appropriate moment for clamping the umbilical cord is controversial. Immediate cord clamping (ICC) is an item of active management of the third stage of labor (AMTSL). Unclamped umbilical cord may cause inconvenience in preterm neonates because they commonly need some levels of emergent services. Some studies revealed delayed cord clamping (DCC) of preterm neonates results in be...

Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?

The year 2016 could turn out to be a turning point for global health, new political realities and global insecurities will test governance and financing mechanisms in relation to both people and planet. But most importantly political factors such as the global power shift and “the rise of the rest” will define the future of global health. A new mix of health inequity and security challenges has...

Are we ready to define central hypopneas?