The Assisted Breathing before Cord Clamping (ABC) Study Protocol
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This is a well written and well thought out protocol that will help define whether patients should be ventilated during
Author Response
Thank you
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Reviewer 2 Report
Thank you for the opportunity to review this important work.
PAGE LINE COMMENT
3 132 This is a bit confusing. You randomized at 15 seconds, but was the envelope system used? (This is much clearer later in the paper.
GENERAL COMMENTS:
The article is excellent. I think it would benefit from some attention to reducing the repetition of some topics.
Author Response
Thank you. On page3 we have indicated that further details follow later.
We agree there is repetition and have removed some sections and sentences where they are unnecessary repeats, particularly towards the end, where in following the SPIRIT reporting framework, items were reported twice.
Changes are tracked.