TerminatedNot Applicable

Position at Birth,Placental Transfusion Volume and Cord Clamping

Stopped: difficulties with the center

Argentina27 participantsStarted 2010-10

Plain-language summary

To compare the evolution of the infant's weight before delayed cord clamping (2 minutes after birth) as an indirect measure of the volume of placental transfusion in a group of healthy and fullterm newborns, placed at the level of the introitus versus another group placed on the abdomen of the mother.

Who can participate

Age range2 Minutes

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Term newborns, vigorous born by vaginal delivery, cephalic or vertex presentation. * Signed informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * History of Placenta previa, * postpartum hemorrhage background, hemorrhage before 20- week- gestation. * Multiple gestation. Background of IUGR prenatally diagnosed. Major congenital malformations diagnosed previous to delivery. * Maternal diseases such as: eclampsia, Rh incompatibility, congestive cardiac failure. * Extraction of blood sample for bank of umbilical cord stem cells. * Elimination criteria: Need for immediate assistance of the newborn, Birth weight less than 2500 g, Nuchal cord wrapped too tight, * Major congenital malformations not diagnosed during prenatal period, * Delivery surgically finished * Short umbilical cord which might prevent placing the infant in the assigned place .

What they're measuring

Compare infant's birth weight before delayed cord clamping as an indirect measure of the volume of placental transfusion in a group of healthy fullterm newborns placed at the level of the introitus versus at the the mother's abdomen.

Timeframe: inmediately after birth until 2 minutes after birth

Trial details

NCT IDNCT01497340

SponsorFundacion para la Salud Materno Infantil

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2010-12