Comparative assessment demonstrates reduced delivery room complications from umbilical cord milking in nonvigorous infants, highlighting unknown long-term postdischarge outcomes.
Compared with early cord clamping (ECC), umbilical cord milking (UCM) reduces delivery room cardiorespiratory support, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, and therapeutic hypothermia in nonvigorous near-term and full-term infants. However, UCM postdischarge outcomes are not known.
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