BACKGROUND Delayed umbilical cord clamping (DCC) permits placental-to-newborn transfusion and results in an increased neonatal blood volume at birth. Despite endorsement by numerous medical governing bodies, DCC in preterm newborns has been slow to be adopted into practice. The purpose of this article is to provide a framework to guide medical providers interested in implementing DCC in a hospi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Spinal cord ischemia with resulting paraplegia is a devastating complication of thoracoabdominal aortic surgery. Experimental models of spinal cord ischemia have been developed in primate, dog, pig, rabbit, and rat with variable reproducibility, but none has been developed in mouse. Because genetically engineered mice have become important to examine the impact of specifi...

INTRODUCTION Surgical repair of an aortic aneurysm might be complicated by spinal cord injury and paraplegia. Since β-adrenoreceptor agonists showed neuroprotective effects, the study was designed to investigate the effect of clenbuterol on post-aortic clamping paraplegia and to identify if there is hyperemia associated with paraplegia. MATERIAL AND METHODS MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty rabb...

Methods: After considering inclusion and exclusion criteria, cases were divided in to 5 groups. All Women were injected 50 ml of normal saline into umbilical vein immediately after clamping and cutting the cord, in group A without oxytocin, in Group B with 10 units of oxytocin, in group C with 20 unit oxytocin and in group D with 30 unit oxytocin. In group E (control) women were managed conserv...