[1] Symptoms present in the baby shortly after birth from a prior nuchal cord may include duskiness of face, facial petechia, and bleeding in the whites of the eye.

[1] Nuchal cords are typically checked for by running the finger over the baby's neck once the head has delivered.

[1] Symptoms of a prior nuchal cord shortly after birth in the baby may include duskiness of face, facial petechia, and bleeding in the whites of the eye.

[1] In 1962, J. Selwyn Crawford MD from the British Research Council defined a nuchal cord as one that is wrapped 360 degrees around the fetal neck.

[7] “Coils occur in about 25% of cases and ordinarily do no harm, but occasionally they may be so tight that constriction of the umbilical vessels and consequent hypoxia result.”[citation needed] Williams Obstetrics 16th Edition, has only one single sentence in the entire textbook regarding cords around the neck.

There are currently three recent texts on ultrasonography which demonstrate the ability of ultrasound to identify umbilical cord issues with reliability as of 2009.

[citation needed] A study published in 2004 was done to establish the sensitivity of ultrasound in the diagnosis of a nuchal cord.

[citation needed] Peregrine[9] concludes that ultrasound diagnosis of nuchal cords will only be useful if doctors are able to do so reliably and predict which of those fetuses are likely to have a problem.

Ultrasound measurement of the velocity of flow in the cord may be useful in the management of twins and chronically growth-retarded fetuses.

A recent review by Wilson of the American Academy of Ultrasonography Technicians recommends the documentation of umbilical cord issues.