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Doha: The impact of the timing of umbilical cord clamping on the health of mothers and newborn babies was discussed at the first in a new season of Grand Rounds lectures at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q).
Speaking to an audience of physicians, pharmacists, nurses and allied health professionals, Dr. Ben H. Lee, Medical Director of Neonatology Operations and Associate Chief Medical Officer at Sidra Medicine, discussed the existing research into how clamping the umbilical cord at different time intervals after birth affects the health outcomes of mothers and newborn babies.
Dr. Lee, who is an affiliate faculty member at WCM-Q, also explained the physiology of the baby’s transition from receiving oxygen through the placenta to breathing through his or her own lungs and analyzed the impact of ventilation and cord clamping on this transition. Finally, Dr. Lee identified the key to successful cord clamping to best protect the health of both mother and baby, explaining that delayed cord clamping often has better outcomes than immediate clamping, but that there was no ‘one size fits all’ recommendation.
He said: “Overall, the stability of your cardiopulmonary transition at birth from the fetal to neonatal state is dependent not on time, not on 30 seconds, 60 seconds, two minutes or five minutes; it’s dependent on appropriate sequence of [the baby] breathing first and triggering the pulmonary transition, which then triggers the cardiovascular transition. Once the cardiovascular transition occurs, then you don’t need the placenta and then you can go ahead and clamp.
“So, we should think of it as physiologic cord clamping, not just as delayed cord clamping.”
Dr. Lee’s lecture, titled The Key to Successful Umbilical Cord Clamping, was accredited locally by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners-Accreditation Department (QCHP-AD) and internationally by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
About Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar
Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar is a partnership between Cornell University and Qatar Foundation. It offers a comprehensive six-year medical program leading to the Cornell University M.D. degree with teaching by Cornell and Weill Cornell faculty and by physicians at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Aspetar Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, the Primary Health Care Corporation, the Feto Maternal Center, and Sidra Medicine, who hold Weill Cornell appointments. Through its biomedical research program, WCM-Q is building a sustainable research community in Qatar while advancing basic science and clinical research. Through its medical college, WCM-Q seeks to provide the finest education possible for medical students, to improve health care both now and for future generations, and to provide high quality health care to the Qatari population.
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