Clamping of the Umbilical Cord

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Abstract
IT is difficult to assay the various methods of umbilical-cord clamping. Every physician employs a different technic and usually establishes a pattern that he carries out routinely in his obstetric work. At times this pattern is influenced by the equipment, the nursing situation, hospital policy in care of the newborn and various emergencies arising in the mother or the infant. Thus, in some cases, the infant is placed on the mother's abdomen while the physician attends to a bleeding episiotomy, or on a small delivery table beneath the level of the mother, with consequent delay in cord clamping. It has . . .