The introduction of umbilical cord lactate measurement and associated neonatal outcomes in a South African tertiary hospital labor ward.
E R AllansonR C PattinsonE A NathanJan E DickinsonPublished in: The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians (2017)
Umbilical lactate can be used in a middle-low resource setting as a measurement of intrapartum hypoxia, with reasonable sensitivity and specificity for the prediction of, or need for, resuscitation, admission to the nursery, and low Apgar scores.