ACOG's CANCELLED Policy #216  
  

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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

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Washington, DC 20024-2188


ACOG's Technical Bulletin

Number 216 - November 1995

(Replaces #127, April 1989)


Title:  Umbilical Artery Blood Acid--Base Analysis


This criminal medical malpractice directive, totally an unreasonable and unncessary method for doing cord gas analysis, was retired by ACOG in January or February 2002.   


  No correction made known to the public.  No letter of warning for all medical persons exposed to a false teaching that likely reached over 500,000 persons around the world who may NOT think standing on their feet and will be STILL using this policy long after its quiet retirement.


While some American Babies will be protected, the Canadian Children yet remain to be exploited, as SOGC who referenced their policy of May 2000, #89, have not done likewise to protect babies born in Canada to NOT be subjected to a clamp at birth to stop their flow of blood and oxygen, so they too, can have a Constitutional right to be a Blue Ribbon Baby, their parents planned the conception to be just that, by nature's best plans for all babies to be enriched by good health, at birth.  This can only happen with parents planning the birth, proper nutrition exercise, freedom from toxic chemicals in land, air, and water, and knowledge to protect the child during the Third Stage of Labor for baby's best chance for optimal health and a happy and bright and prosperous future.


To Quote page 4:


"One reasonable protocol for umbilical cord blood pH and blood gas analysis is as follows (22):

  • Doubly clamp a segment of the umbilical cord immediately after birth in all deliveries.
  • Fair Comment by the author of this Web Site:

For those ethical or moral and competent medical persons: medics, ambulance attendants, doulas, direct-entry midwives, register-nurse-midwives, family doctors, pediatricians, gynecologists, and obstetricians, there is a disclaimer by  ACOG.  


Disclaimers means the individual accepts full responsibility for their own decision making powers.  That is to say ACOG is NOT holding a gun to your head to follow this educational bulletin.  I have personally read one doctors dissent to this bulletin, and many ethical medical persons know this acid base analysis has options then clamping immediately the infant's pulsating lifeline.  This is the disclaimer making the individual and hospital boards personally accountable for what happens on their premises, or for what a medical person does on another premise:

  •    "This Technical Bulletin was developed under the direction of the Committee on Technical Bulletins of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists as an educational aid to obstetricians and gynecologists.  ...This Technical Bulletin does NOT define a standard of care, nor is it intended to dictate an exclusive course of management."
  • NOTE:  This Policy #216 has been withdrawn since FEBRUARY 2002.  Very quietly retired.
  • NOTE:  Canada's SOGC Policy #89, May 2000, still directs "all" Canadian babies have immediate cord clamping .   How Come!?