BACKGROUND Deferring cord clamping at very preterm births may be beneficial for babies. However, deferring cord clamping should not mean that newborn resuscitation is deferred. Providing initial care at birth at the mother's bedside would allow parents to be present during resuscitation, and would potentially allow initial care to be given with the cord intact. The aim of this study was to eval...

Background and Purpose: The lipophilic calcium channel antagonist flunarizine has been demonstrated to be neuroprotective in several models of cerebral ischemia. Ischemic spinal cord injury may have a similar pathophysiology and hence may respond in a similar fashion. This study was designed to investigate the eifects of pretreatment with flunarizine on systemic hemodynamics, spinal cord blood ...

Background Worldwide, millions of babies are born each day, and in many of these infants, the umbilical cord is severed and they must begin air-breathing to survive. These events dramatically change the infant’s circulation, transforming it from the fetal to the postnatal form, which then persists for the rest of its life[1,2]. However, if an infant is not breathing at birth, umbilical cord cla...

here are several reasons to answer yes. The first one is hat it is among the most frequently performed medical or paramedical) interventions in human beings: 3,000,000 imes a year in Brazil, 131,000,000 times a year in the world that means 250 times a minute). Therefore, even a minial influence of the way or of the timing of cord clamping n the infants’ health becomes important, because of its ...