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The Australian Placental Transfusion Study (APTS): Should Very Pre Term Babies Receive a Placental Blood Transfusion at Birth Via Deferring Cord Clamping Versus Standard Cord Clamping Procedures?

NCT02606058 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1637

Last updated 2020-11-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To establish if placental transfusion, using deferred cord clamping for 60 seconds or more while holding the baby at or below the level of the placenta, will improve survival without disability compared with standard early cord clamping in preterm babies less than 30 weeks of gestation.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Deferred cord clamping

Deferred cord clamping (for 60 seconds or more with the baby held below or at the level of the placenta)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia

    collaborator OTHER

  • Baylor College of Medicine

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Sydney

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • William T Mordi, MD · University of Sydney

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2017-04-30
Completion
2020-09-30

Countries

  • United States
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • France
  • New Zealand
  • Pakistan
  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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Diseases

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