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Cord Pilot Trial

Immediate cord clamping versus deferred cord clamping for preterm birth before 32 weeks gestation: a pilot randomised trial

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN21456601
Enrollment
261
Registered
2013-02-28
Start date
2013-03-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2019-03-18

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Topic: Reproductive Health and Childb, Generic Health Relevance and Cross Cutting Themes

Interventions

1. Deferred cord clamping: clamping the cord after at least two minutes 2. Immediate cord clamping: clamping the cord within 20 seconds

Sponsors

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
Female

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Women likely to have a live birth before 32 weeks gestation, regardless of mode of birth or whether cephalic or breech presentation

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Monochorionic twins (from an ultrasound scan) or clinical evidence of twin-twin transfusion syndrome 2. Triplets or higher order multiple pregnancy 3. Known congenital malformation

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Feasibility outcomes for the original pilot trial: 1. Number of women recruited in each hospital 2. Proportion of potentially eligible women recruited 3. Reasons for non-recruitment (medical, parental, logistic, other) 4. Spectrum of gestational age and neonatal outcome among recruits 5. Compliance with the trial interventions, and reasons for non-compliance 6. Completeness of data collection for main outcomes 7. Views of women and their partners on recruitment, randomisation and the interventions 8. Proportion lost to follow up after discharge from hospital, and reasons for loss to follow up Added 01/07/2016: As the primary outcomes planned for the main Cord Trial were death and intraventricular haemorrhage, these were the pre-specified main outcomes for the analysis by allocated group for the Cord Pilot Trial.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
No secondary outcome measures

Countries

United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 20, 2026