#439 - 🔵 [PAS 2026] - What Is the Right Cord Management Plan for Every Baby in the Delivery Room?

Send us Fan MailDr. Anup Katheria, one of the world's leading researchers in umbilical cord management, joins Daphna to share the latest data on deferred cord clamping and cord milking across gestational ages. He presents new two-year follow-up findings showing that while cord milking remains a reasonable alternative to immediate cord clamping, delayed cord clamping still carries a measurable advantage in Bayley scores for motor and language — even in babies between 28 and 32 weeks where short-term outcomes looked identical. He also breaks down the practical decision tree for vigorous versus non-vigorous babies at different gestational ages, shares his vision for involving obstetricians more actively in that critical first minute of life, and previews an upcoming large-scale Neonatal Research Network trial testing 100% oxygen delivery during the cord clamping window. He closes with a call to move away from traditional composite outcomes in neonatal trials toward ranked ordinal outcomes that better reflect what actually matters to families.Support the showAs always, feel free to send us questions, comments, or suggestions to our email: [email protected]. You can also contact the show through Instagram or Twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below.Enjoy!