Jessica Austin's List: Umbilical Cord Clamping

• The procedure for obtaining cord blood gases at birth is to amputate
   the child's placenta immediately and save a cord section containing blood.
   This results in immediate asphyxia
• If
   the neonatologist cannot adequately restore the child's blood volume and
   effect ventilation with pulmonary circulation within five minutes, the
   result of immediate clamping will be exactly the same as Windle produced
   in his monkeys - spastic paralysis. Even if adequate oxygenation from
   ventilation is achieved, the child is still extremely hypovolemic with
   deficient perfusion of other life support organ-systems.
• Cord blood analysis (immediate cord clamping) at this time may well cause
   fatality. [2] If the child survives immediate clamping, it is extremely
   hypovolemic, hypoxic and ischemic, and very prone to develop hypoxic,
   ischemic encephalopathy in the NICU.
• mmediate cord clamping is a probable cause of the brain
   injury that the obstetrician is hoping to avoid;

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