Umbilical granuloma: This is a small, pinkish-red lump that doesn’t fall off when the rest of the umbilical cord does. It doesn’t hurt, and your baby’s doctor can remove it by tying it off with stitches or freezing it with liquid nitrogen or silver nitrate....
—We read with interest the article by Janssen et al.1 After reviewing the literature regarding umbilical cord care,2,3 our hospital began instituting the natural drying technique in December 2000. Within several months, three healthy newborns, of 3000 deliveries pe...
College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Mizan-Tepi University, PO Box 260, Mizan, Southwest Ethiopia People Regional State, Ethiopia, Tel +251-92-845-5726, Email nigatudes@gmail.com Background: Due to unsanitary cord care practices, cord infections are more common and prevalent in developing ...
As the parent of a newborn, you’ll want to know about umbilical cord care, including how to keep your baby’s umbilical cord stump dry until it falls off, how to identify the signs of infection, and when to call your healthcare provider. Read on to learn about all this, and more....
healthcare and society.18,19Due to the lack of evidence on when to clamp the cord in the very vulnerable population of compromised babies at birth, the question of whether to resuscitate with the umbilical cord intact, or not, was voted the second most important question in a recent UK ...
Care of the Umbilical CordWhile performing a vital role for survival of the fetus, after delivery the umbilical cord stump is a redundant feature of the term newborn. It does, however, receive attention and activity by...doi:10.1007/978-1-349-21082-4_5Rush, Janet...
2 Umbilical cord milking has been endorsed as an alternative to delayed umbilical cord clamping, which is the current standard of care. Umbilical cord milking provides a placental transfusion by pushing blood toward the newborn before the umbilical cord is clamped with a duration similar to ...
This cohort study investigates the association between umbilical cord pH values and the risk of adverse neonatal outcomes among newborns in Denmark, which
A further, added feature of the present invention is the protection of health care personnel. When the umbilical device of the present invention is utilized, there will be a reduction in the amount of blood fluid spurt at the time of cord severance, thus decreasing occupational exposure to pers...
Objective: To report the educational experience with pregnant women considering the recovery of collective memory inherited from the care for the umbilical cord stump provided by grandmothers. Method: This case study was based on collective memory and resulted from a workshop with 20 pregnant women ...