High Oxygen During Cord Clamping Helps Extremely Preterm Infants

High Oxygen During Cord Clamping Helps Extremely Preterm Infants

(MedPage Today) -- For preemies born at 22 to 28 weeks' gestation, providing 100% oxygen during deferred cord clamping (DCC) safely improved early oxygen status, a pilot randomized trial showed. With high oxygen, 69% of infants had a peripheral...

Georgia baby born at 22 weeks and 1 day

A premmie from Georgia who defied all expectations after being born at just 22 weeks and one day gestation has just celebrated his second birthday. Baby Tuff Born had been in his mother’s womb barely 22 weeks when he was born at a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. According to reports, doctors typically do not provide resuscitation for extremely premature babies at 22 weeks, but that one extra day meant baby Tuff was given a fighting chance. At firs…