Performance Evaluation of the ex Utero Cord Blood Collection Technique: Procedure, Quality and Results

Inclusion Criteria

• •18 years old
• •Geographical origin and history of known travels
• •Absence of potentially transmissible diseases (infectious, hematological, and autoimmune)
• •Absence of diseases that can alter prenatal obstetric variables: multiple pregnancy, pregestational diabetes mellitus, intrauterine growth restriction, hypertensive states of pregnancy or chronic arterial hypertension, and fetal pathology.
• •Any type of delivery: vaginal delivery and cesarean section.
• •Deliveries from week 37 or higher.
• •Standardization of the timing of clamping in all cases to one minute.