Table 3.
Mortality for the baby before discharge from hospital
| Clamp ≥2 min+neonatal care with cord intact | Clamp ≤20 s+neonatal care after clamping | |
| (n=135) | (n=135)* | |
| Death | 7 (5%) | 15 (11%) |
| Stillbirth | 1 | 2 |
| Early neonatal death | 3 | 7 |
| Late neonatal death | 2 | 5 |
| Postneonatal death | 1 | 1 |
| Gestation at birth (weeks) | ||
| 30–31+6 | – | 1 |
| 28–29+6 | 1 | 3 |
| 26–27+6 | – | 4 |
| <26 | 6 | 7 |
| Cause of death: | ||
| Congenital anomaly† | – | 1 |
| Severe pulmonary immaturity | 3 | 3 |
| Intrapartum asphyxia | 1 | 1 |
| IVH | 1 | 2 |
| Infection | ||
| Antepartum | – | 1 |
| Early onset | 1 | 1 |
| Late onset | – | 2 |
| Necrotising enterocolitis | – | 2 |
| Other‡ | 1 | 2 |
*Includes the baby of one woman who withdrew.
Clamp ≥2 min: prolonged oligohydramnios (n=1); clamp ≤20 s: myocardial ischaemia (1), prolonged oligohydramnios (1).
†Not known before randomisation.