[caption id="attachment_50943" align="alignright" width="300"] Karen Fairchild, MD[/caption] A groundbreaking multicenter clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open explores whether ventilatory assistance before umbilical cord clamping improves outcomes for extremely preterm infants. The study, which enrolled 570 infants born before 29 weeks’ gestation, compared two approaches: 120 seconds of assisted ventilation before cord clamping versus 30–60 seconds of delayed cord clamping follow...
