Two venipunctures in umbilical cord blood collection: Perception and real use by midwives

Abstract

requires trained professionals with skills to execute the technique, to obtain the maximum blood and an adequate cellular recovery. In this way, the Portuguese public bank developed a standard operating procedure and disseminated for the execution of the UCB collection technique, to maximize the volume and to minimize the 70% discarded rate. The established technique is performed after birth with the placenta in utero and consists in obtaining by gravity the blood that remains in the placenta and the umbilical cord, through the execution of two distinct punctures in the umbilical vein (one most distal and other in the proximal region of the placenta).