Anatomie und Physiologie: Aktuelle Forschung
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How well are We Teaching the Physiology of Transition at Birth?

David JR Hutchon

A true physiological transition of the circulation at birth does not include any intervention. Teaching texts were searched and we found that nearly all included the intervention of cord clamping either overtly or covertly. The implications of this distortion of physiology are discussed.