PubMed Central, : RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2018 July; 9(3): e0023. ISSN: 2076-9172Published online 2018 July 30. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10344.

Table 2. Outcomes of Delayed Cord Clamping (DCC) versus Early Cord Clamping Based on Data of Fogarty et al.²⁹

Outcome	RR [95% CI]
Hospital mortality in premature infants^*	0.68 [0.52 to 0.90]
Hospital mortality in infants ≤28 weeks’ gestation^†	0.70 [0.51 to 0.95]
Cardiorespiratory support at resuscitation	0.89 [0.71 to 1.11]
Intubation in delivery room	0.96 [0.82 to 1.13]
Severe intraventricular hemorrhage	0.87 [0.59 to 1.27]
Periventricular leukomalacia	0.71 [0.39 to 1.27]
Mechanical ventilation	0.95 [0.84 to 1.07]
Chronic lung disease ≥36 weeks	1.02 [0.93 to 1.12]
Necrotizing enterocolitis	0.88 [0.65 to 1.18]
Late-onset sepsis	0.95 [0.80 to 1.13]
Severe retinopathy of prematurity	0.74 [0.51 to 1.07]
Peak hematocrit, %	MD: 2.73 [1.94 to 3.52]
Blood transfusion	0.81 [0.74 to 0.87]
Polycythemia (hematocrit >65%)	2.65 [1.61 to 4.37]
Peak bilirubin, μmol/L	MD: 4.43 [1.15 to 7.71]

^*Including 2,834 premature infants in 18 RCTs.

^†Including 996 infants ≤28 weeks’ gestation in 3 RCTs.

MD, mean difference.

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2018 July; 9(3): e0023. ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2018 July 30. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10344