Should very premature babies receive a placental transfusion at birth? A randomised controlled trial.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/571309

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Premature babies under 30 weeks gestation are up to a hundred times more likely than full term babies to die or survive with major disability, often from brain damage due to poor blood flow after birth. This randomised study will find out if giving them more placental blood at birth, by means of a delay in clamping the umbilical cord, then milking it, reduces anemia, blood transfusions, brain damage, infection, death and disability. The results may benefit millions of premature babies worldwide.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2017

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $2,875,774.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Paediatrics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Clinical Trials | Delay in cord clamping | Disability in infants | Infant mortality | Necrotising Enterocolitis | Perinatal brain damage | Placental transfusion | Premature birth | Premature infants

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