Labor, delivery, postpartum

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Third stage of labor

Australia

• SA Health
  • Uterine Inversion

Canada

• Canadian Neonatal Network
  • Association of Deferred vs Immediate Cord Clamping With Severe Neurological Injury and Survival in Extremely Low-Gestational-Age Neonates [2019]

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Deferred Cord Clamping

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Umbilical Cord Management in Preterm and Term Infants [2022]

East Africa

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Practices and factors associated with active management of the third stage of labor in East Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

Ethiopia

• PLoS ONE
  • Active management of the third stage of labour in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

Europe

• European Standards of Care for Newborn Health
  • Cord management at the delivery of term infants
  • Cord management at the delivery of preterm infants

International

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Third stage of labor: evidence-based practice for prevention of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes [2024]

• Birth
  • Integrated review of the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of maternity health care professionals concerning umbilical cord clamping [2022]

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Effect of timing of umbilical cord clamping and other strategies to influence placental transfusion at preterm birth on maternal and infant outcomes [2019]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • FIGO good practice recommendations on delayed umbilical cord clamping [2021]

• International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
  • Umbilical Cord Management for Newborns <34 Weeks' Gestation: A Meta-analysis [2021]
  • Umbilical Cord Management at Term and Late Preterm Birth: A Meta-analysis [2021]

• Médecins Sans Frontières
  • Third stage of labour [2019]

• Pediatrics
  • Guidelines on Deferred Cord Clamping and Cord Milking: A Systematic Review [2020]

Norway

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Isolated single umbilical artery and the risk of adverse perinatal outcome and third stage of labor complications: A population-based study [2020]

Saudi Arabia

• Annals of Saudi Medicine
  • Current umbilical cord clamping practices and attitudes of obstetricians and midwives toward delayed cord clamping in Saudi Arabia [2017]

Spain

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Variability of Clinical Practice in the Third Stage of Labour in Spain [2019]

Sri Lanka

• Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
  • Management of Acute Puerperal Inversion of the Uterus [2014]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Midwives' experiences with implementation of active management of third stage of labor in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2025]

Sweden

• European Journal of Midwifery
  • Umbilical cord clamping and management of the third stage of labor: A telephone-survey describing Swedish midwives' clinical practice [2022]

United Kingdom

• Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
  • Barriers to deferred cord clamping in preterm infants [2014]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Evidence reviews for active and physiological management of the third stage [2023]

• Right Decisions
  • Delayed Cord Clamping (DCC) WoS MCN, Obstetrics

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Clamping of the Umbilical Cord and Placental Transfusion [2015]

• WISDOM
  • Guideline for the Management of Third Stage labour [2024]

United States

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping After Birth [2020]

• Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
  • Is it time to rethink cord management when resuscitation is needed? [2015]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Umbilical Cord Milking vs Delayed Cord Clamping and Associations with In-Hospital Outcomes among Extremely Premature Infants [2021]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Prevalence of Delayed Cord Clamping Among U.S. Hospitals by Facility Characteristics [2021]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Guideline: delayed umbilical cord clamping for improved maternal and infant health and nutrition outcomes [2014]

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