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- Title
Neonatal transitional physiology: a new paradigm.
- Authors
Mercer, Judith S; Skovgaard, Rebecca L
- Abstract
Early clamping of the umbilical cord at birth, a practice developed without adequate evidence, causes neonatal blood volume to vary 25% to 40%. Such a massive change occurs at no other time in one's life without serious consequences, even death. Early cord clamping may impede a successful transition and contribute to hypovolemic and hypoxic damage in vulnerable newborns. The authors present a model for neonatal transition based on and driven by adequate blood volume rather than by respiratory effort to demonstrate how neonatal transition most likely occurs at a normal physiologic birth.
- Publication
The Journal of perinatal & neonatal nursing, 2002, Vol 15, Issue 4, p56
- ISSN
0893-2190
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1097/00005237-200203000-00007