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Milking Versus Delayed Cord Clamping in Full Term Neonates (MDCCT)

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Ahmed Mohamed El Kotb Abdel Fattah

Status

Completed

Conditions

Neonatal Anemia

Treatments

Procedure: cord milking
Procedure: delayed cord clamping

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02454101
delayed cord clamping in term

Details and patient eligibility

About

To compare the short term risks and benefits of cord milking 5 times toward the neonate with delayed cord clamping for 120 seconds in the full term neonate delivered by cesarean section.

Full description

Abstract Context: milking of the umbilical cord toward the neonate 5 times and delayed cord clamping both are good procedures to prevent anemia in neonates .

Objective: To investigate the effects of delayed umbilical cord clamping for 120 seconds, compared with milking of the cord 5 times toward the neonate on hemoglobin level after 6 weeks, Intubation,Respiratory distress,Clinical jaundice,Neonatal Intensive Care unit (NICU) admission,Apgar score (after 5 minutes of delivery).

-Maternal,Need for blood transfusion,Additional need for therapeutic uterotonics,Post postpartum hemorrhage (blood loss > 500cc),Intensive Care unit admission.

Design: Randomized controlled trial. Setting: Ain Shams university maternity hospital. Participants:300 full term infants born after a low risk pregnancy by cesarean section delivery.

Intervention: Infants were randomized to delayed umbilical cord clamping (≥120 seconds after delivery) or cord milking (5 times to ward the neonate).

Enrollment

300 patients

Sex

Female

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Pregnant females going for cesarean section that completed 37 weeks of gestation
  • Medically free

Exclusion criteria

  • Known congenital anomalies of fetus.
  • Rhesus sensitization.
  • Fetal hydrops.
  • Medical disorder (preeclampsia - diabetes mellitus - hypertension - SLE).
  • Need for urgent resuscitation.
  • Multiple pregnancies.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

300 participants in 2 patient groups

cord milking
Other group
Description:
milking of the umbilical cord 5 times toward the neonate
Treatment:
Procedure: delayed cord clamping
delayed cord clamping
Other group
Description:
delayed cord clamping for 120 seconds
Treatment:
Procedure: cord milking

Trial contacts and locations

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