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Re: Cord blood pH From: Efrain Ramirez (eramirezt@coqui.net) Fri May 21 23:22:28 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Kaposi's Sarcoma" Previous message: hemant damle: "Re: Precocious Puberty Help" In reply to: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Cord blood pH" They should be drawn from the artery - they are the most accurate information regarding the newborn acid-base status. A ph below 7.0 with a metabolic pattern will is usually associated with severe neurologic dysfunction... I do cord gases to all my deliveries - I have been questioned - and rightly, so - that such practice is not EBM - but it is my convictiont that eventually it will be -- It helps the pediatricians a lot -- and it is an objective assessment of the fetal status - At Fri, 21 May 2004, Steve & Eryl Raymond wrote: > >We have been donated an Astrup machine which has fifty tests per >cartridge. These cartridges expire quickly and up till now we have >been using only about ten percent of the available tests. To make >better use of the cartridges we want to get cord blood pH done on >babies from caesars for fetal distress, but the paediatricians are >saying that it must be done on the umbilical artery blood. What is >the general experience of those who are doing these regularly >regarding where the sample should be taken from, what pH level range >is normal and is there a significant difference whether taken from >artery or vein? Anybody care to give us the benefit of their experience? > >Steve Raymond -- "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962) Next message: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Kaposi's Sarcoma" Previous message: hemant damle: "Re: Precocious Puberty Help" In reply to: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Cord blood pH"

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